132 Scientific Intelligence. 
For a public document the Catalogue is well printed, and, as a hast 
essay by an unpracticed hand, it is creditable to its author, thoogh 
there are many points which would not bear close criticism. 
3. Genera oe .. auct. G, gene ed. D. come Sak I, 
the press, this second oe t has been cut short of its intended dimensions; 
but the third part, wh sci may be expected next summer, will complete 
the Polypetalous Oedias and the first volume of a full thousand plese 
4. On aah peti _— Teleology, goon in the Limbs of Ma mma- 
lia, t G. WiLD (From the Memoirs of the Boston Society 
of 1 Natural Tintory carer this paper the author has brought to view more 
prominently than has ee been done, the remarkable relatious 
existing between the anterior and posterior regions or poles of the Ver- 
tebrate body, both as exhibited 1 in the structure of the bones and muscles 
the limbs, and the more general relations found in the body itself and 
the internal organs, kone idea usually ex ressed by “ antero-posterior 
eral: tte by Oken, an nt as more rece y been investigated by, Prof. 
structive exposition of this peculiar symmetry as exemplified in the bones 
and muscles of the limbs, which necessarily involves much that is tech- 
nical and complex in Vertebrate anatomy, there are many interesting 
piher: anatenists and zoologists have failed to discover. Certainly “late 
erality” has not been shown to characterize Mollusca, in the paper * . . 
Mr. Shaler? to which he refers, but ee bilateral symmetry, w which, 8 oe 
* Proceedings Boston ral History, viii, 279. 
* Pree. Bost § Soc. Nat. fi, et 274. 
