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former days brought out distinguished work in Cyperacece, this 

 continuation of its Annals upon the same line is opportune and 

 welcome. No new species are proposed in this critical revision, 

 but several new varieties are characterized. a. g. 



12. Beitrag zur LCenntniss der Sarraceniaceen. — An inaugural 

 Dissertation for the philosophical doctorate at the University of 

 Erlano-en, May, 1885, by Paul Zipperer of Munich, octavo, with 

 one double plate of anatomical detail; worked out up^n Sarra- 

 eenia purpurea, flava, and variolaris, Barlingtonia and Heliam- 

 phora. a. g. 



13. Charles Wright, our associate of many years, a veteran 

 botanist and extensive explorer, the most kindly of men, died 

 suddenly, of heart disease, at his home in Wethersfield, Conn., 

 August 11th, at the age of 74. a. g. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, vol. vi, Part 2. New Haven, Conn. — This part closes 

 the volume with the 516th page. It contains the following 

 memoirs : J. H. Emerton, on New England Spiders of the 

 family Epeiridse, with 8 plates of crowded figures ; and on the 

 Lycosidse, with 4 plates ; R. H. Chittenden and H. E. Smith on 

 the diastatic action of Saliva, as modified by various conditions, 

 studied quantitatively; S. W. Williston, on N. A. Conopidse 

 (conclusion) ; A. E. Yerrill, Third Catalogue of Mollusca 

 recently added to the fauna of New England coast and the 

 adjacent Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species, with 

 notes on others previously recorded, with 4 plates ; K. J. Bush, 

 Mollusca ot Cape Hatteras, with one plate. 



Professor Verrill's paper reports that the Cephalopoda here 

 described were obtained at depths between 600 and 2574 fathoms; 

 the Gastropoda between 43 and 2574 fathoms; and one species 

 Lamellaria pellucida has this great range; the Scaphopoda from 

 70 to 1594 fathoms ; the Lamellibranchiata at various depths 

 down to 2221 fathoms, of which, species of Pecten occur down to 

 1525 fathoms, of Area at 2021 fathoms, and of Limopsis at 2221 

 fathoms. Two Brachiopoda are included, one Atretia gnomon 

 1525-1594 fathoms, and JDiscina Atlantica 1198-2021 fathoms. 



2. A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodiccds (1665 

 to 1882) together with Chronological Tables and a Library Check- 

 List, by H. Carrington Bolton. 774 pp. 8vo. Washington, 

 1885. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, No. 514. — This 

 catalogue with its chronological tables and check list is the 

 result of a number of years of work, and its completeness is the 

 more remarkable that the best libraries of the world do not exist 

 this side of the Atlantic. The volume is of great value for its 

 carefully prepared alphabetized list of scientific and technical 

 periodicals of all nations ; but this value is very much enhanced 

 by the addition of the Chronological Tables, which give a student 



