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S,,h*(f,o,Jfi. Cvn.parta and Caspufota), I*orl,,Jn« (for N. »„,/ov>- 

 ,%//>/„,), and Ihnutheca for 5. /y<MW ami N. rjp-h^hylhnn) ; 

 tlir ample characters are in Latin, and the synonymy is very full. 

 — that of & cnspidatttm, for example, tills four pages. There is 

 a complete index to the synonymous h;iiih>. Although arranged 

 primarily for Scandinavian use, the treatise will be welcomed In- 

 fill bryologists. a. g. 



3, Nomeuvhitor Zo<>/o ; /lr,/s ? by Samii-i. II. S« n>i)KR. Part 

 I. Supplemental list, 376 pp. 8vo. 1882. Bulletin of the U. S, 

 Nat. Mas. Dept. of the Interior. Published under the direction 

 of the Smithsonian Institution.— Mi". Scudder, in Part I of his 

 Norni Miclator, has given to zoologists, as the result of an immense 

 amount of personal labor and assistance from many zoologists, a 

 supplement to Agassiz's Nomenclator, making it "to include all 

 generic names employed in Zoology and Paleontology to the close 

 <>f the year 1879, which are not contained or not correctly given in 

 the works of Agassiz and Marschall, or in the Zoological Record 

 Indexes. It contain- 1 .".,'. •:;«• hiIi it- of genera, and besides these 

 the genera of the Zoological Record for 1878 and 1879, and those 

 of the Zoologischer Jahresbericht for 1879. References to places 

 of first publication and derivations are also given. 



The preface states that Part II, or the " Universal Index," con- 

 tains about 80,000 references and include- the generic names in 

 all previous lists. It gives the name of the genus (including also, 

 in italics, such familv or higher names as appear in Agassiz's 

 Nomenelator or the author's Supplemental List); 2d. The authority ; 

 -d. The group; 4th. The date; and 5th, the reference to the 

 Nomenclators. It is also announced that Ac /,,//,// Siipplr,,,, nfs 

 will hereafter he issued I>v the Smithsonian Institution, the first to 

 include the additions for 'the years 1880-1889. The Smithsonian 

 Institution bv these publications is doing great service to natural 

 science throughout the world. 



4. Synopsis of the Fresh- water Rhizopods. — A condensed 

 account of the genera and species, founded upon Professor Joseph 

 'Fresh-water Rhizopods of North America." Compiled 

 Hitchcock, Pres. X. V. Microscopical Society. 58 

 pp. 8vo, with four plates. 1881. New York (Romyn Hitchcock). 



This is a convenient hand-t k for all who would take up the 



examination or study of fresh-water Rhizopods. especially if the\ 

 have not already the large and copiously illustrated work on the 

 subject by Professor Leidv. This bottom branch of zoology is a 

 fertile field for the capable embryological investigator. 



IV. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



I. American Association.— Y\\u circular of the Local Com- 

 mittee of the meeting at Montreal of August 23. states the fol- 

 owing with regard to reduced rates of fare on railroads and 



The Grand Trunk, the Great Western, the Intercolonial, the 



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