492, Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
As a matter of course, the classification adopted is capable of 
being criticised in many respects. But _ this subject zoolo- 
gists are still very far from agreeing, so that every writer may, if 
e chooses, hold his own views of the Sassliteaddes of many por- 
tions of the animal kingdom. The first volume includes the Pro- 
tozoa, Ccelenterata, Tohinoder mata, Verm mes and Arthropoda. 
The rest of the groups are included in vol. i 
The Arthropoda, and especially the Cvinvasedls are very fully 
treated i in the first volume, while the greater part of the second 
is devoted to the Vertebrata (230 pages). The illustrations are 
very numerous (706) and are, for the most part, well moet and 
carefully engraved. A. Be NS 
2. Presence of eyes in the shells of certain Chitont ide. Me 
H. N. Mosetey, in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 
for January, 1885, states his discovery of eyes in the shell of cer- 
tain Chitons, and Hecartbea and figures their microscopic structure 
and method of formation. They occur on the outer surfaces of 
the shells of some species of these mollusks, and are shore fgth 
inch in mean diameter. In Schizochiton incisus, the diameter 1S 
gsth inch; the anterior shell has six rows of eyes and the ae 
in which there are three. In other species the arrangement is 
different. In Zonicia marmorata the eyes of the anterior shell, 
in one specimen, Hie j in 34 radial lines, each line containing about 
18 e 
The ¢ eyes have a convex cornea, a lens, and around the cornea 
a narrow zone of dark pigment which is the margin of the pig 
mented eye-capsule. Through the center of each cornea is eo 
small circular area somewhat darker than the aperture of pa 
pupil, vA showing a brilliant spot of totally reflected light rae 
The soft structures of the eye lie in a more or 
pear-shaped soot excavated in the surface of the tegnree i 
The eye is sometimes prominent, and sometimes sunk in a 5! sik 
low pit. Mr. Moseley figures the ramifications of soft tiss Pa 
which pass to the eyes and describes some of the a 
terminating in points, the papilliform bodies of Van Ben ad 
that probably are, according to Mr. Moseley, organs of touch, bow 
are called by him megalesthetes. The eyes are evidently to 
Bi oa ask as modifications of megalesthetes ar 
of the Chitonide having well ‘developed eyes appe 
to be fagtly non-European 
IV. MiscEnLangous Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
1, Temperature for March.—The Bulletin of the New Eng gis? 
Meterological Society for March, 1885, contains the , ae 
to 
“The month has been characterized by a greater pest tof fait 
weather and less wind than is usual in March. Two a 
especially distinguish the month from the corresponding m° 
