Botany and Zoology. 79 



pp. 239-2 78, pi. xix-xxiv, 1898. — This important paper relates to 

 the common northern starfish of New England. It is the result 

 of work done at the Newport laboratory of Mr. A. Agassiz and 

 at the Museum of Comp. Zoology of Harvard University. v. 



7. Zoological Results based on material from New Britain, 

 New Guinea, Loyalty Islands, and elsewhere, collected during 

 1895-1897; by Arthur Willey. Part I. Cambridge, Eng., 

 Univ. Press. — The first article consists of a very detailed account 

 of the development and anatomy of Peripatus Novce-Britannice, 

 sp. nov., illustrated by four plates. The second is devoted to a 

 new species of Caprellidse (Metaprotella Sandalensis). The third 

 is on a sea-snake from the South Pacific, Aipysurus annulatus 

 (Kraft), with figure. The fourth is a Report on the Centipedes 

 and Millipedes, pi. vi. The fifth is on the Phasmidse with notes 

 on the eggs, pi. vii-ix. The sixth paper relates to the Pedapalp 

 and Scorpions, pi. x, xi. v. 



8. An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with figures of all 

 the species ; by G. O. Sars Vol. II, parts xi, xii. Oniscidae, 

 Bopyridse, Dajidse; 4to. Bergen. Published by the Bergen 

 Museum, 1898. — This is a continuation of the admirable work of 

 Professor Sars on the Norwegian Crustacea. This part contains 

 eight autographic plates drawn by Dr. Sars himself, with his 

 customary care and accuracy. This work is of special interest to 

 American naturalists, because a considerable percentage of the 

 species will be found also on our coast. v. 



9. The Mollusca of the Chicago Area: The Belecypoda ; by 

 Frank Collins Baker, pp. 1-130, with 27 plates. The Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences, Bulletin No. iii, Part i of the Natural 

 History Survey, Sept. 1, 1898. — This exhaustive and liberally 

 illustrated memoir by Mr. Baker has recently appeared. A 

 second part, devoted to the Gastropoda, is promised. 



10. Catalogus Mammalium tarn viventium quam fossilium a 

 Doctore E.-L. Trottessart, Parisiis. Nova Editio (Prima com- 

 pleta). Fasciculus IV, pp. 665-998; V, pp. 999-1264. Berlin, 

 1898 (R. Friedlander & Son). — Parts i-iii of the exhaustive Bib- 

 liography of papers relating to living and fossil mammals, by Dr. 

 Trouessart, have already been announced in our pages. Parts iv 

 and v have now appeared, embracing some six hundred pages 

 and bringing this important work to a close. Part iv includes the 

 Tillodontia and Ungulata: Part v the Sirenia, Cetacea, Edentata, 

 Marsupialia, Allotheria, and Monotremata. The genera included 

 in these two parts extend from Nos. 761 to 1588, and the species 

 from Nos. 4086 to 7224; and besides there are many varieties not 

 separately numbered. The whole bibliography is printed with 

 admirable clearness. 



11. The Fishes of North and Middle America ; by David 

 Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann ; pp. i-xxx, 

 1241-2183. Washington, 1898 (Bulletin 47 of the U. S. National 

 Museum, Smithsonian Institution). — Part II of the complete 

 descriptive catalogue of the fishes found in the waters of North 



