No. 407. REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. O 
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well chosen, but they are too few in number; though the data may 
serve to eliminate all but one of the species compared, they are 
insufficient to identify that one, with any degree of confidence, in 
modern definitions of species, varieties, etc., or in view of possible 
intrusions of outside species. ‘The book was compiled mainly from 
literature; the illustrations drawn from Moreau and Blanchard are 
tolerably good, but the few drawn from nature painfully indicate the 
author’s lack of familiarity with his subject. Some of these figures 
are mere caricatures: for examples, the codfish, Gadus morrhua ; 
Scomberesox saurus, Belone vulgaris, among others, or the figure of 
Spinax niger, which resembles no known shark. Various figures of 
dentition show nothing of the basal portions of the teeth. Borrowed 
illustrations are credited in this way: “ Spinax niger (E. Moreau)" ; this 
would mean to naturalists generally that E. Moreau was the authority 
for the specific name, niger. Not all of the species are included. 
Notes. — C. M. Fürst (Anat. Anzeiger, XVIII, 190-203) has inves- 
tigated the finer structure of the hair cells in the ear of the salmon. 
Each hair cell carries a brush of hairs projecting beyond the limits 
of the cell. The enlarged bases of these hairs give rise to a disk- 
shaped body just within the cell wall. From this disk a cone-shaped 
mass extends into the interior of the cell. From the staining qual- 
ities of these parts the author concludes that the brush of hairs 
represents cilia whose basal bodies have united to form the disk- 
shaped mass;-and whose cone organ is represented by the cone-shaped 
body. In other words, sensory hair cells have the morphological 
peculiarities of ciliated cells. 
The richness of the entomological collections of the Oxford Uni- 
versity Museum is well illustrated by Swinhoe's recent volume.! 
Two thousand three hundred species are listed; the Noctuina, 
Geometrina, and Pyralidina by Swinhoe, the Pterophoride and 
Tineina by Walsingham and Durrant. Many new genera and 
species are described, and the synonymy and bibliography are given 
in extenso. In method of citation and typographically the pages con- 
tributed by Walsingham and Durrant differ from those of Swinhoe ; 
ZEgeriadze, Gelechiadz, are contrary to the best usage. The work is 
published in the handsome form characteristic of the Clarendon Press. 
The eight beautiful plates figure, chiefly, species imperfectly described 
by Walker. 
1 Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera, Pt. II. Oxford, 
1900. viii, 632 pp., 8 plates. 
