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numbers by workmen while excavating for an electric railroad. This 
extends the distribution of the species by some 110 miles to the 
northeast, the furthest station previously recorded in this direction 
being, according to the National Museum collections, Tarboro, North 
Carolina. 
Number 4 of the eighth volume of the Journal of Comparative 
Neurology contains, beside the usual literary notices, the conclusion 
of Dr. Adolf Meyer’s Critical Review of the Data and General 
Methods and Deductions of Modern Neurology, and Professor H. 
H. Donaldson’s Observations on the Weight and Length of the 
Central Nervous System and of the Legs in Bullfrogs of Different 
Sizes. 
Number 3 of the second volume of the Zod/ogical Bulletin, issued 
in December of the past year, contains Notes on the Finer Structure 
of the Nervous System of Cynthia partita, by G. W. Hunter, Jr.; 
The Maxillary and Mandibular Breathing Valves of Teleost Fishes, 
by U. Dahlgren ; The Effect of Temperature on the Regeneration of 
Hydra, by F. Peebles; and Further Notes on the Egg of Allolo- 
bophora foetida, by K. Foot and E. C. Strobell. 
Dr. Arthur Willey describes a new Peripatus from New Britain, 
but very distantly related to any of the previously known species, 
which is placed in a new subgenus, Paraperipatus. Dr. W. M. 
Wheeler describes P. eiseni (Journ. Morph., Vol. XV, p. 1), from 
Mexico. 
BOTANY. 
Some Recent Elementary Text-Books. — No two teachers pre- 
sent a subject in the same manner, and to attempt to compel them to 
do so, as is done in some public school systems, usually makes au- 
tomata of them and machines of their pupils, when nature work is 
involved. But the yearning of every good teacher for some reference 
book that he can put in the hands of his class, giving them what he 
cares to have them know and freéing them from the expense of pay- 
ing for other matter, seems scarcely capable of expression otherwise 
than in the preparation of a text-book of his own. Four such books 
have recently come to hand, one quite elementary, the others aiming 
at the work done in the secondary schools or by the most general of 
college classes. 
