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to his conclusions ; and perhaps has been too much inchned to 

 form a low estimate of the characters of the Eolidina'*,ihvis making 

 them correspond more nearly with their new allies. Some of tlie 

 statements that we have now attempted to controvert are of this 

 nature; and ]\1. de Quatrefages is also inclined to disalloAV the 

 existence of a heart and blood-vessels in Zephyrhia, in which we 

 suspect he is equally mistaken. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 

 Annales des Sciences Nafurellcs. 



Februaiy 1S44. — Zoology. — Considerations on some principles re- 

 lating to the naturnl classification of animals, and especially on the 

 methodical arrangement of the Mammalia, by iM. ^IiIne Edwards. 

 A very important and highly philosophical essa)', embodying the di- 

 stinguished author's ideas on zoological classification, the publication 

 of which has been suggested by the paper of Mr. Waterhouse in the 

 7.9th Number of the ' Annals of Natural History.' — On some fossil 

 Fish-teeth found in the neighbourhood of Staoulli, in the province of 

 Algeria, by M. Valenciennes. The formation in which these teeth 

 were found is tertiary (miocene ?) : they belong to three species of 

 Sargus, a Chrysophrys and an Oxyi-hina, and are all extinct forms. — 

 On the Trypanosoma sanguinis, a new species oi Hctmatozoon, by ]\I. 

 Gruby f. This sujiposed animal (on the individual nature of which a 

 doubt is thrown by M. Milne Edwards) was found circulating in the 

 blood of frogs in spring and summer. Its body is long, flattened, 

 transparent and twisted. The cephalic extremity is terminated by 

 slender elongated filaments, and its caudal end terminates also in 

 pointed filaments. It moves rapidly in a screw-like fashion. — A 

 translation of Mr. Harry Goodsir's important paper on the Reproduc- 

 tion of Cirripeda. — A translation of an abstract of Dr. Carpenter's 

 paper on the Microscopic Structure of Shells. — Researches on Osteo- 

 genesis, by Dr. Lebert. 



Botany. — Continuation of the monograph of the Nidularice, by 

 MM. L. and C. Tulasne (with admirable plates). — Observations on 

 the genus Aponogeton, and on its natural affinities, by M. E. E. 

 Planchon. The author proposes to place Aponogeton either among 

 the AlismacecE, as the type of a suborder intermediate between the 

 AUsmacecE proper and the Juncaginece, or to consider it as the type of 

 a new family of Aponogetacece, characterized by the absence of a 

 perianth, by the ovaries being distinct and definite in number, by its 

 fevv- anatropous ovules attached to the base of the cell, and above all 



* We use this word here, as employed by Mr. MacGillivray, to designate 

 the subfamily of which Eolis is the type. Eolidina had previously been 

 employed in this enlarged sense, of whicli fact M. de Quatrefages does not 

 appear to be aware. 



t See Annals, vol. xiii. p. 158. 

 Ann. &; Mag. X. Hi.st. Vol. xiv. K 



