4i]l Bi'Mwgraphical Notice. 



i'Y//6'. 8 A, 8r. Eozoon canculense. Vertical sections, showing Numniu- 

 litid shells mostly laid open, hut partly (in fig. 8 b) showing 

 tliin outer walls and pores, a (in tig. 8 a), stolon uniting 

 four shells and passing through infundibulum in each shell. 



Fi;/. 9. Eozoon canadense. Vertical section at and near surface, showing- 

 supplementary canal-system ramifying in supplementary 

 skeleton and pseudopodia (in olivine) forming a branching- 

 network outside the specimen ; at base live large Nummu- 

 litid shells, with their surfaces ground down, so that the shells 

 are opened. X 12. 



BIBLIOGllAPHICAL NOTICE. 



liecent Foreign an I Colonial Natural Ilistor)/ P^rloilicah. 



(1) Annales Scientlfiques de VUnuershe de Jassj/. Tomo vii. 



3"^^^ Fascicule. Jiiillet 1912. 



(2) Sviiihsonian Institution, U.S. Aat. 3fiis. BvlletinlQ. Asteronhi 



of the North Facific and Adjacent Waters. By Walter 

 Kenrick Fisher, Assistant Professor of Zoology, Stanford 

 University, California. Parti. Plianerogamia and S/riaidosa. 

 Washington, 1911. 



(3) Procee lings of the Washington Acadeimi of Sciences. Vol. xiii. 



1911. 



(4) Becords of the Indian Museum. (A Journal of Indian Zjulo /i/.) 



Vol. vii. part 3. July 1912. 



(1) Includes a very varied assortment of papers on mineralogy, 

 Crustacea, cave-fauna. Protozoa, parasites of Trichoptera, &c. 



(2) An exceedingly elaborate publication, of which it is stated 

 that " The region covered by the ])resent report emhriices the 

 western coast of !North America from the thirty-second parallel of 

 latitude to Point Barrow on the Arctic Ocean, all of Bering Sea, 

 the coast of Asia from East Cape to Sakhalin, and the Kuril 

 Islands. It thus includes all the waters north of a line drawn from 

 the southern end of Sakhalin to the southern boundary of the 

 United States 



" In the preparation of this report six thousand nine hundred and 

 twenty-seven specimens have been listed, and many more examined " 

 belonging to seven principal collections. 



This report runs to 419 quarto pages, and is illustrated by 122 

 excellint plates. 



(3) Includes papers on the mammals of the Lake Maxinkuckee 

 Region; the collapse of recent beds at Staunton, Virginia; remarks 

 on the fossil turtles accredited to the Judith Iliver formation ; and 

 on the systematic value of Rana chinensis, Osbeek. 



(4) Includes a series of short papers on Gordius, Che^onia, Oligo- 

 ehieta, Sgmhiotica, a freshwater Medusa, a new Thrij^)S, Crinoids, 

 Farthworms, Ajous, &c., and on malaria mortality. 



