August 12, 1004.] 



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as the station possesses — which are not, as 

 yet, extensive — will be gladly placed at the 

 service of visiting naturalists without charge, 

 but microscopes can not usually be supplied. 

 It should be understood that at present the 

 station is equipped and manned solely with 

 reference to the survey. Any one who may 

 contemplate accepting the invitation here ex- 

 tended should communicate with the Director 

 at the University of California, Berkeley, Cali- 

 fornia. The resident naturalist for the pres- 

 ent year is Mr. B. M. Davis whose address is 

 Point Loma, San Diego, California; and for 

 special information relative to materials avail- 

 able for study at particular times, living 

 facilities, etc., he should be communicated 

 with. 



The following are among the species of ani- 

 mals that may be had at any time, at certain 

 seasons of the year, or by special efforts in 

 collecting : 



Ceratium, several species; Thalassicolla and 

 other spumularia; Acanthometron and other 

 Acantharia; several sponges, species unde- 

 termined; Tuhularia crocea, Corymorpha 

 palma, Campanularia cestualis, Sertularia des- 

 moides; of medusae: Ohelia sp., Pelagia sp.; 

 8plicero7iectes Jcolliheri; Renilla amythysiina, 

 Virgularia sp., Cerianthus sp., Edwardsia sp., 

 Sagariia pedrensis, Epiactis proUfera, Antho- 

 pleura californica; Toxopneustres sp., 8irongy- 

 locentroiiis purpufaius, Lovenia cordformis, 

 Echinarachnius excentricus, Asterias capitata, 

 Asterina miniata, Phataria sp, ; Ascopodaria 

 sp., Bowerhankia sp., Crisia sp., Scrupocel- 

 laria sp. ; several opisthobranchs ; Bulla rnebu- 

 loscb, Monocerus sp., Oerostoma sp.. Chiton 

 conspicua. Pectin aequisulcatus and mono- 

 timerisj Octopus punctatus; Calanus finmar- 

 chicus, Eucalanus attenuatus, Acartia tonsa 

 and other species, Oithona, several species, 

 Phronima sp., Paraphronima sp., Euphausia 

 splendens, Callianassa longmana, Alphius 

 clamator and other species, several hermit 

 crabs; Ciona intestinalis, Perophora sp., Pyro- 

 soma atlanticum, Salpa runcinata-fusiformis, 

 Cyclosalpa affinis, Doliolum tritonis, Oiho- 

 pleura sp., Dolichoglossus pusillus, Tornaria 

 ritteri; Branchiosioma californiense, Polisto- 



trenia stouti, Gyropleurodus francisci, Galeus 

 californicus, Urolophus halleri, Fundulus par- 

 vipinnis, Typhlogohius calif orniensis. 



Wm. E. Ritter, 



Director. 

 CoEONADO, Calif., 

 July 7, 1004. 



PROFESSOR TAGUCHl's BRAIN-WEIGHT. 



To THE Editor op Science: In response to 

 a further inquiry concerning the brain of the 

 Japanese anatomist, K. Taguchi, the follow- 

 ing communication was received from K. 

 Yamagawa, president of the Imperial Uni- 

 versity of Tokio : 



" In reply to your favor of May 9, 1904, 

 I am sorry to say that the figure for the 

 weight of brain in the last information, sent 

 to you through Miss Gardener about the post- 

 mortem examination of the late Professor 

 Taguchi, was found to be wrong. It seems 

 to me that the weight of his brain was put 

 down as 1,920 instead of 1,520, which is the 

 right figure, by mistake when it was copied 

 from the original record. I apologize, etc. 



K. Yamagawa." 



The corrected figure places Taguchi's brain 

 in the thirtieth place among those of men 

 notable in the professions, arts and sciences, 

 instead of second place, as first reported. 



Edw. Anthony Spitzka. 



July 28, 1904. 



SPECIAL ARTICLES. 



VARI.E AUCTOEITATIS. 



A PLEA for exactitude in citation of the older 

 writers on natural history is, perhaps, less 

 likely to be sustained than in the case of mod- 

 ern authors, on the ground of their being anti- ' 

 quated and of minor importance. Neverthe- 

 less, from an historical and esthetic stand- 

 point, precision of reference is as desirable in 

 the one case as in the other. It is of course 

 less irksome and time-consuming to accept 

 some standard authority in lieu of verifying 

 original sources; but errors once introduced 

 into general compilations are apt to persist 

 indefinitely. Instances of the latter sort are 

 to be found in nearly all compendiums of the 



