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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



WJtat are the Bncillariaceas f by Dr. A. M. Edwards. M. J. 

 Tempere predicts in his journal " Le Diatomiste " for June, 

 1895, that the proposition of Dr. Edwards to change the name 

 Diatomacea^to Bacillariacea^ (The Microscope, April, 1895), will 

 not be acce})ted, and that for two reasons : — a bad one, routine, 

 that it is well established ; a better one, that of the two ety- 

 mologies, the first one is more logical and indicates some- 

 thing general in the Diatomacea;, the other, which comes 

 from bacillum (a small stick) contains but little of that idea, 

 especially when discoidal or other forms are found. 



The Character of Agar-Agar, and the Bacillariacefe Found in Con- 

 nection with it, by Dr. A. M. Edwards. In the same number of 

 that periodica], M. J. Tempere gives a resume of an article pub- 

 lished in " The Microscope '' for May 1895, and tells us that 

 Arachnoidiscus ornatus is to be found in Agar- Agar but it is not 

 Arachnoidiscus ehrenbergii as Doctor E>1 wards says. 



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