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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 46. 



Intime interraixta orescit Puccinia polygoni. 

 Sueciaj in foliis Polygoni amphibii in Insulis laous 

 Glottern, par Qrillinge Ostergotland, August, 1891. 



488. DiDYMAEiA AQUATICA Starback, n. sp. 



Maculse varia forma, sfepissime suborbioulares, con- 

 fluentes, amx)higena; e fusco grisese, fnsoomarginata;. 

 Hyphse non manifests;. Sporulse recta;, fusoidese, 

 utrinque obtusiusoulje, 10-19x4-5 /«. 



Sueciaj in foliis Alismatis plantaginis in laou Glot- 

 tern, Qvillinge, Ostergotland, August, 1891. 



500. Heteeospoeium peoteus Starback, n. sp. 



Csespitula; hypopliylla;, laxe gregaria; in maculis 

 aridis foliorum insidentes, bypliis fasciculatis, inter- 

 dum ad basin conglutinatis stipitemque formantibus, 

 composita;. Hypba; 95-100 fi long, 4.5 /i, 6.5 /^ crassfe. 

 Conidioe e nodulis bypharum oriunda, et forman et 

 magnitude nem valde varia, cylindracea vel cylin- 

 dracea-ellipsoidea, 3-septata 16-24x4.5-8 /i, 2-septata 

 14-15x6-7 ,u, 1-septata 9-15x3-7.5 /u vel globosa, 

 quas rarissime adsunt, 5-6 diam., autem conspicue et 

 densissime echinulata. 



Ileterosporio echinulato (Berk) Cooke affinis modis 

 sporidiorum aliis notis exceptis, baec species dignos- 

 cenda. 



Suecise in foliis Querci sp. in Upsala, October, 1891. 

 Joseph F. James. 



THE BIBLIOGRAPEICA ZOOLOGICA AND 



ANAT03IICA. 



At the Baltimore meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Naturalists (Dec. 1894) a 

 committee was appointed to consider Dr. 

 H. H. Field's plans for bibliographical re- 

 form, the committee to repoi't in print. 

 That committee would report as follows : 



Dr. H. H. Field, in view of the well- 

 known imperfections and shortcomings of 

 all existing records of zoological literature, 

 has formulated plans which will give the 

 zoological world an approximately complete 

 index of all current literature as promptly 

 as possible. This record will be issued in 

 the form of bulletins, each number of which 

 will be distributed as soon as sufficient 

 material has been accumulated to make a 

 ' signature.' The same bulletin will also 

 be issued printed only on one side of the 

 page, to allow for cutting up for special 

 bibliogiaphies. Lastly, the separate titles 



will be issued upon cards of the standard 

 ' index ' size. Each title will be followed 

 by a few words giving the subject and scope 

 of the article, when this is not sufficiently 

 indicated by the title, while the cards will 

 have, in addition, catch numbers, so that 

 any library assistant can readily incorporate 

 them in the card catalogue. 



The plan contemplates a union of exist- 

 ing bibliographies with this one. In the 

 case of the ' Naples Jahresbericht ' this will 

 be brought about by cooperation, the Naples 

 series continuing practically as the yearly 

 morphological analysis of the Bibliography. 

 It is to be hoped that the ' Zoological 

 Record' will consent to cooperate in a simi- 

 lar way, devoting itself to the sj^stematic 

 side, and by aid of the new facilities of co- 

 operation increase its present usefulness to 

 students. Arrangements have now pro- 

 gressed so far that it seems probable that 

 the records of literature in the Zoologischer 

 and Anatomischer Anzeigers will be merged 

 in the new scheme, and it is hoped that the 

 one in Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte will take 

 the same course. If sufficient encourage- 

 ment be given, it is proposed to include 

 physiology in the scope of the new plan. 

 The net gain will be fewer bibUographies, 

 wider scope, nearer approximation to com- 

 pleteness, and more prompt publication. 



The central office of the work will be es- 

 tablished at Ziirich, Switzerland, and it 

 may be said that the cantonal government 

 has already appropriated 2000 francs an- 

 nually to its support, and will supply suit- 

 able quarters for its work. France has 

 promised a similar sum, and aid is expected 

 from Germany, from the International 

 Congress of Zoologists and from the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Committees have been appointed in France, 

 Germany and Russia to cooperate in mak- 

 ing the record as complete as possible. 

 Lastly, publishers stand ready to undertake 

 the publication of the bulletins, cards, etc., 



