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figures in this paper from the same beds several other apparently 

 aquatic plants, a palm, and three conifers. Two of these latter, 

 Frenelopsis Hoheneggeri and Geinitzia cretacea are indicative of 

 an even earlier period. l. f. w. 



6. Recherches sur la Vegetation du niveau Aquitanien de 

 Manosque; par le Marquis G. de Sapoeta. Memoires de la Soc. 

 Geol. de France, tome ii; I, Nympheinees, Fasc. i, Mem. No. 9, 

 pp. 22, pi. iii— vi ; II, Palmiers, Fasc. 2, Mem. No. 9, pp. 23-34, 

 pi. ix-xi. — The first of these papers treats of some important re- 

 cent discoveries of Nympbeaceous plants in the beds of Manosque, 

 Cereste, and Bois d'Asson, chiefly by local collectors, the princi- 

 pal of whom are M. Nalin and Mile. Rostan. The flora of these 

 deposits as previously published by the author is reviewed and 

 the new species described and fully illustrated. These include five 

 species of Nymphoea, one of Ancectomeria, and one of Nelumbium. 

 Associated with these was found a Ceratophyllum (C. aquitani- 

 cum), and the view is expressed that this anomalous genus is 

 really related to the Nymphseacese. This view had already been 

 suggested by Brongniart based on the similarity of the seeds, but 

 most authors put this genus in an apetalous order by itself, though 

 Baillon places it in the Piperaceae. The second of those memoirs 

 deals in like manner with the palms of these collections, of which 

 there is one species each of the genera Flabellaria, Sabal, and 

 Phoenicites. The author indulges in some important speculations 

 upon the origin and development of these elements of the Euro- 

 pean Tertiary flora and its relations to that of the present day. 



l. f. w. 



7. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and 

 Burma. Mammalia, Part II, by W. T. Blanfoed, F.R.S. 

 Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for 

 India in Council. — Part I. of Dr. Blanford's systematic work on 

 the Mammals of India appeared iu 1888, and is noticed in vol. 

 xxxvi, of this Journal. This Second Part of this valuable 

 treatise which concludes the work, making in all a volume of 618 

 pages, contains descriptions of the Cheiroptera, Rodentia, Ungu- 

 lata (including the Pachydermata and Ruminantia of Cuvier), 

 Cetacea and Edentata. Many figures illustrate the volume. 



8. Inheritance of Acquired Characters. — Presidential address 

 of D. G. Elliot, at the Annual Meeting of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, K Y., Nov. 8, 189], 28 pp. 8vo. From the 

 January number, vol. ix, No. 1, of the Auk. — This address 

 presents facts chiefly from ornithology in favor of the inheritance 

 of acquired characters, making a successful argument against 

 the views of Prof. A. Weissmann. 



OBITUAEY. 



Sereno Watsox, Curator of the Harvard University Herba- 

 rium, died on March 9th, in his sixty-sixth year. A biographical 

 sketch will be given in a following number. 



