160 Scientific Intelligence. 
Algee will me Agee publish a similar report on the seaweeds of 
the Pacitic t, and then a comprehensive work on all North 
American Marine Alge. D. ©. EATON. 
. Das System der Medusen von KE. Heckel ; Zweite hilfte.— 
The Feohalantonr of the first part of “ Heckel’s Syste m der per 
sen,” devoted to the Acraspede, Sibdindplitialinw,'c or the Dis- 
cophore in shee widest sense, has been issued. 
Though some of the o rders adopted by Heckel differ but 
slightly from those previously recognized, they are invariably 
baptized anew, and we in this, as in all the systematic work 
of Heckel, a deliberate Gieegutd of the nomenclature adopted by 
his predecessors. Heckel stretches the laws of nomenclature to 
e e 
their extreme limits, and nothing can rende icu- 
lous than such a — phceasna wry as that of the System 
d. Medu Spear fag! ily, very order, in fact, 
bie were described in detail and made to form the basis of the 
new-fangled name by which it is hereafter to be known. Nomen - 
may close this part of the subject by asking Medusologists what 
is gained ys wes fabrication of such names as Stauromeduse and 
Cubomedus: 
existing between the 
cophore. It is, in fact, coAne but a free fianibenaiin: Closely 
em are th 'o thi 
and ‘Heniied of this interesting group of Medu ee, and gives an 
* See Bull. M. C. Z., vol. viii, No. 9, 1881. 
