NATURE 



\_May 6, 1880 



Congo Expedition to reach Stanley Pool by way of San Salvador 

 and Makuta. Owing to tribal jealousies, the Makuta route ha'; 

 had to be given up, but fresh efforts are now being made to dis- 

 cover some other route to the Upper Congo by Zombo or Sanda ; 

 or should these prove unfavourable, to strike out an altogether 

 new road, and so to reach Stanley Pool over hitherto untrodden 

 ground. By latest advices it seems probable that they may be 

 able to get there by Sanda (about two days' journey from 

 JIakuta), where Messrs. Comber and Crudgington have been 

 well received, and have been allowed to establish a station. 



A " Tni-fRlNGER Wald " Club, similar to the various Alpine 

 clubs, has recently been fomied at Eisenach. TAn " Evzgebirge " 

 Club is in course of formation at Joachimsthal (Bohemia). A 

 Saxon Club for the closer investigation of the last named moun- 

 tain chain has existed for several years ; also a " Rhongebirge" 

 Club. These clubs do great service to tourists and the general 

 public, and would be well vforth imitating in our. own mountain 

 districts. 



Mr. Stanford has issued three nicely-printed maps in which 

 the results of the recent elections are very clearly fhown for 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland. The maps have been designed 

 by Miss E. Shaw-Lefevre. 



Mr. Stanford has just published a "Geography for Little 

 Children," by Mrs. Zimmern, which in a very simple and inter- 

 esting way attempts to show the use of a map and teach some of 

 the element'-ry points of physical geography. Its numerous 

 attractive and quite original illustrations are an important 

 feature. We have also received the forty-fifth edition of 

 Cormvell's " Geography for Beginners." 



SCIENTIFIC SERIALS 



The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, Normal and Fatho- 

 logical, vol. xiv. Part 3, April.— Prof. Turner, the structure of the 

 comb-like branchial appendages, and of the teeth of the basking 

 shark [Sclache maxima) (witli a plate). — Dr. G. Thin, on the 

 ganglion-cells of the elephant's retina.— Dr. J. H. Scott, on the 

 structure_ of the style in the tongue of the dog.— Dr. 

 A. H. Young, on the anatomy of the Indian elephant. -^Dr. C. 

 Creighton, illustrations of the pathology of sarcoma, from cases 

 of subcutaneous cystic tumours (three plates). — Dr. Dreschfeld, 

 on a peculiar form of liver tumour (with a plate). — On a case of 

 cerebellar tumour (with a plate).— Dr. T. Oliver, post-mortem in 

 a case of extreme obesity.— Prof. T. Young, on the head of the 

 lobster (with a plate).— W. S. Richmond, new abnormalities of 

 the arteries of the upper extremity, with a plate. — Dr. R. J. 

 Anderson, abnormal arrangement of the thyroid arteries (with a 

 plate). — On a variety of the mylo-pharyngeus and other unusual 

 muscular abnormalities. — Drs. P. M'Eride and A. Bruce, the 

 pathology of a case of fatal ear-disease (with a plate). — Dr. F. 

 Shepherd, notes on the dissection of a case of congenital 

 dislocation of the head of the femur.— J. D. Brown, abnormal 

 cystic artery. — Anatomical notes. 



Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, vol. iii. No. 2, 

 April, iSSo.— A. D. Michael, a farther contribution to the 

 knowledge of British Oribatido:, Part 2, with the assistance of 

 C. F. George (two plates).— Dr. Lionel S. Beale, annual addi ess 

 as president. — J. W. Groves, on a means of obviating the reflec- 

 tion from the inside of the body tubes of microscopes, with sug- 

 gestions for standard gauges for the same and for sub-stage 

 fittings. — A. Nachet, on a petrographical microscope. — The 

 record of current researches relating to invertebrata, crypto- 

 ganiia, microscopy, and bibliography.— Proceedings of the 

 Society. 



Route Internationale des Sciences, April.— M. Gilkinet, on the 

 development of the vegetable kingdom in geological times.— A. 

 de Bary, on apogamous fungi, and on apogamy in general.— R. 

 Blanchard, on striated muscles in the monomyary acephalous 

 mollusks, and on the peritoneum of Seba's python. 



The American Naturalist, vol. xiv.. No. 3, March.— G. 

 Macloskie, the proboscis of the house-fly.— E. Coues, sketch of 

 progress in mammalogy in the United States in 1S79.— E. D. 

 Cope, a review of the modern doctrine of evolution, being an 

 abstract of a lecture delivered before the Californian Academy 

 of Sciences (with several cuts of crania of Anura).—E. A. Smith, 

 a paper concerning amber.— Notes on recent literature. General 

 Notes, and Scientific News. 



No. 4, April. — W. S. Barnard, protoplasmic dynamics (an 



attempt to find a clue "to the mode in which molecular move- 

 ment is transformed into the movement of masses "). — C. S. 

 Minot, a sketch of comparative embryology (II., the fertili-^ation 

 of the o\Tim). — C. A. White, on the progress of invertebrate 

 pakxontology in the United States for the year 1S79.— E. D. 

 Cope, a review of the modern doctrine of evolution (concluded). 

 — A. J. Cook, on the tongue of the honey-bee. — Notes on recent 

 literature. General Notes, Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 



Verhandlun«en der k. k. zoologiseJi-botanischen Gesellschaft iit 

 Wicn, vol. xxix. Part ii., June to December, 1S79, Vienna, 

 1880, contains, besides list of members and minutes of the Pro- 

 ceedings, the following memoirs : — Otto Bohatsch, supplement to 

 the lepidopterous fauna of Syria. — II. Wichmann, the minute 

 anatomy of the seeds of Aleurites triloba, Forst. (t« o plates). — 

 Dr. J. Csokor, on the pimple mite, and on a new variety of the 

 same occurring in swine [Demodex phylloides), one plate. — H. 

 Leder, contribution to the coleopterous fauna of the Caucasus. — 

 S. Schulzer, mycological notes, iv. — E. Reitter, the synonomy 

 of coleoptera ; contributions to a knowledge of the Europear» 

 Pselaphid;^ and Scydmrenidcc : on new coleoptera from South- 

 West Russia ; on Spela:odytes, Jlill. — Dr. H. Loew, analytical 

 table to determine the North American species of Pachyrrhina, 

 a genus of Tipulidx.— C. R. Osten-Sacken, the Tanyderir.a, a 

 remarkable group of the Tipulidce. — F. von Thiimen, two new 

 leaf-frequenting ascomycetes, from Vienna. — A. von Pelzeln, on 

 a fifth pacl;age of birds from Ecuador ; on Dr. Ereitenstein's 

 collection of beasts and birds from Borneo. — Dr. F. Low, notes 

 on Psyllodidcc (with a plate) ; descriptions of new gall-insects, 

 with notes on some species already known. — Dr. R. Eergh, 

 contributions to a monograph of the Polycerida: (with six plates). 

 — W. Voss, materials towards a knowledge of the fungi of 

 Carniola. — Dr. G. Mayr, en the ichneumon-wasp of the genus 

 Telenomus. 



The Zeitschrift fiir 'd'issenschaftliehe Zoologie, xxxiv. Band, 

 Heft I, March. — Dr. Ernst Nauck, on the masticatory appara- 

 tus of the Brachyura, with a plate and woodcuts. — Dr. Hubert 

 Ludwig, on Asthenosoma variiim, Grube ; and on a new organ 

 in the Cidarida?, with two plates and woodcut. Describes three 

 specimens from the Museum ■ Godeffroy, one possibly a variety 

 of A. variiim, or possibly a new species, and describes five sac- 

 like organs which lie, like the radial Y-shaped mauubria 

 (Gabelstiicke), in the plane of the ambulacra. These he calls 

 the coecal sacs (Blindsacke) of the masticatory apparatus. Each 

 coccal sac consists of a thin membrane, stiff with calcareous 

 spicules ; right and left of each of these there lie two other 

 blind appendages, but very much smaller ; they were first de- 

 tected in Cidaris tribuloides, but were also found in C. mcinlaria, 

 Dorocidaris papillata, and Goniocidaris eanalictilata . A slight 

 trace of their existence was found in Diadema setosum, but they 

 were quite absent in the families Echinometridze and Arbaciadas. 

 • — Prof. Dr. P. Langerhans, on the worm fauna c-f Madeira ; 

 part 3, with three plates (to the end of the Nemerteaus). — The 

 same, on the Madeiran Appendicularia. — Dr. H. von Ihering, 

 on Grafilla muricicola, a new parasitic Rhabdoccelian, with a 

 plate (found in the kidney of Mnrex tittnculus and M. brandaris, 

 both at Naples and Trieste). 



The Revue des Sciences Naturelles, 2e serie, tome I, No. 4, 

 March 15. — Dr. A. Godron, on the axillai'y buds and branches 

 in the Graniincx. — L. Tillier, essay on the geographical distri- 

 bution of marine fishes (conclusion). — S. Jourdain, on the mor- 

 phology of the early stage of the generative organs of Helix 

 asfersa, with a plate. — M. Leymerie, sketch of the Pyrenees of 

 the department of Aude (in continuation), with a plate. — A 

 Sabatier, the law of the correlation of forms and intermediate 

 types. — E. Dubrueil, catalogue of the land and fluviatile mol- 

 lusca of the department of Herault (conclusion). — Review of 

 recent French works on zoology by Mes?rs. Jourdain, Rouzaud, 

 and Dubrueil, and on botany and geology by M. Dubrueil. 



Rivista Scientifico-Industriale, March 15. — Note on electricity 

 and earthquakes, by Prof. De Bosis. — Researches on the diather- 

 manous power of films of soapy water, by Prof. Marangone. 



Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, March 15. — 

 Swiss geological review for 1S79 (continued), by M. Favre. — 

 Enigm.atic descriptions of natural groups, by M. de Candolle. — 

 New observations on philippium, by M. Delafontaine. — On 

 decipium and its principal compounds, by the same. — Earth- 

 quakes and their scientific study, by M. Helm. — On the density 

 of chlorine at high temperatures, by M. Crafts. 



