418 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
“ : Ss 
On the Families of the Raniform Anura. From the Journal of 
EK. D. Corx. 
genera and species are described, and there are many useful criti- 
cisms and important changes in Lasathy & The paper is supple- 
eatures of Arci i 
cosolenia botryoides Bowerbank. By H. James Crarx. Memoirs 
Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. I, Part III, 4to, with 
two fithographic plates, Boston, September, 1867.—In this me- 
moir Prof. Clark has described in much detail and beautifully 
Ipingeca (gen. nov. 
All these are shown to be more or less closely related 
to the siliceous spo 
which is fully illustrated and described. This sponge is composed 
of immense numbers of monad-like infusoria arranged side by side 
in a layer that lines all the cavities. These sponge-monads have, 
like all the other genera named above, except Monas, a sort 
rrow 
relation to the species of Salpingeca and other simple, monad-like 
infusoria, similar to that which the compound corals bear to the 
investigations not only prove the animality of sponges, 
but show that, at least, those allied to Leucosolenia must be referred 
he ciliated division of the Protozoa instead of Rhizopods, where 
to the cil 
they have been 
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