132 Bibliograpliical Notices. 



of Mr. Dobson's new worm would • imagine that the generic term 

 Pteryr/odirmatlk's was clue to Wedl ; but with the several lines there 

 given the student is not reminded, as he is in the English work^ that 

 Rict 111 aria is an older generic term. 



The references are often incomplete ; compare that of Giinther's 

 'Introduction to the Study of Pishes,' an account of which is, horre- 

 scimus refercntes, given in a third language (Italian), Orley's 

 Monograph of the AnguillulidaB, or Ealfour and Sedgwick's memoir 

 on the Head-kidney of the Embryo Chick (pt. iv. p. 186). 



A reference to the last paper, which is omitted seemingly from 

 the English ' Record,' reminds us that Mr. Itye's coadjutors fail some- 

 what in tlieir appreciation of anatomical works ; " les ganglions sent 

 confondus " is not to be translated by the " ganglia are con- 

 founded" (Ins. p. 2). Neither Mr. Ivirby nor Mr. llidley refer to 

 their illustrious countryman's epoch-making work on comparative 

 embryology ; medical helminthologj^ might, we should think, be 

 more fully treated ; the researches of Scott and Balfour on the low- 

 lier Pisces might have had a word of explanation ; a few words on 

 the freshwater Medusa would not have been unacceptable ; and 

 something of general importance could surely have been found in 

 Prof. Maitin Duncan's tine work on Sind corals. 



On the whole, however, we would recommend the working zoo- 

 logist to put his trust in the English ' Kecord ;' and we shall perhaps 

 be pardoned if we suggest to the Naples staff that, having done the 

 chief work for which they were called into existence, that of 

 awakening the Englishman to a sense of the necessity of early 

 appearance, they will reconsider the advisability of producing a work 

 hasty and imperfect in execution, cumbrous for employment, un- 

 certain in its accuracy, and ill- proportioned in its design. 



Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Societj/. New series, vol. iii. 

 part ii. (1S80). Svo. Pp. 83-174. Also, new series, vol. ii, 

 (1877-8-9). Flora [rcceiit] of the Bristol Coal-field. Edited by 

 J. W. White. Part I. Thalamiflorae. Svo, 40 pages. Bristol, 



1881. 



As usual, this publication of the Bristol Naturalists is full of 

 good matter. Dr. S. P. Thompson gives a concise and suggestive 

 treatise on hearing with two ears, and describes also a new phonau- 

 tograph. The breathing of aquatic larva}, the local Lepidoptera, 

 and tlie Eungi are special subjects ; also the boulders of the Broms- 

 grove district. Notes on recent investigations on the course of 

 storms, by Dr. Burden ; on the preparation of a local Flora, by J. 

 W. White ; Mr. C. Jeck's optimist view of " Darwinism " ; and 

 Mr. Leipner's " Naturalist's Bamble in Guernsey," are all worthy of 

 attention. 



The first instalment of a new local flora, made by the personal 

 exertions of the Society, and edited by the " Honorary Secretary of 



