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than 102 ; the total number of species for the county being thus 

 raised to 235, or about twenty more than have been met with in 

 the adjoining county of Somerset, washed by the waters of the 

 Severn and the Bristol Channel. This may, perhaps, be con- 

 sidered to prove that Wiltshire lies right in the course taken by 

 most of the birds which migrate to and from countries further 

 north ; but it also testifies very plainly to the powers of obser- 

 vation exercised by the men of Wiltshire, and by none more 

 successfully than the author of this agreeable volume. 



The Journal of Morphology. Edited by C. O. Whitman, with 

 the co-operation of E. P. Allis, Jun. Vol. I., No. 1, pp. 226. 

 Boston: Ginn & Co. 1888. 



American morphologists are to be congratulated on the 

 appearance of a journal especially devoted to their new science in 

 their own country ; though we have no right to complain that 

 such has not existed before, for it is owing to its absence that 

 the 'Philosopical Transactions,' the ' Quarterly Journal of Micro- 

 scopical Science,' and the ' Journal of Anatomy and Physiology ' 

 have been enriched by valuable communications from American 

 workers. Patriotism, however, is by no means incompatible with 

 a devotion to scientific pursuits, and Americans themselves must 

 have felt ashamed of being without a periodical of this character. 

 The appearance of the first number is very handsome, and the 

 plates are good. Prof. Ramsay Wright and Mr. Macallum, of 

 Toronto, lead off with an interesting account of the remarkable 

 Trematode Worm, Sphyranura osleri, which is parasitic on the 

 Menobranch (Necturus lateralis) ; there are then communications 

 on arthropod eyes, two of which are by Mr. Patten, who is by no 

 means in accord with some preceding observers ; embryology is 

 represented by an account of the germ-layers of Clepsine, by 

 Prof. Whitman, and a preliminary notice on the development of 

 Lumbricus by Prof. Wilson ; these are very important contribu- 

 tions. Dr. Baur has an essay on the phylogenetic arrangement of 

 the Sauropsida, which, to the eye of a purist, is disfigured by the 

 term Sauromammalia ; Therosauria has, indeed, been used by 

 Haeckel for a group of Dinosaurs, but as we have the terms 

 Eutheria, &c, might we not have Saurotheria ? 



