No. 393-] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 749 
In the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 
for 1899 (p. 179) Mr. Henry A. Fowler describes a small collection 
of fishes sent to the academy from Tan-lan-ho River in China. The 
new species are: Leuciscus farnumi, Leuciscus costatus, Nemachilus 
dixoni, and Nemachilus pechiliensis. Mr. Fowler also (p. 118) pub- 
lishes a short list of fishes of Jamaica in collections in Philadelphia. 
Of the twenty-five species none are new, although two or three are 
not common in collections. 
The belated concluding number of Vol. XIV of the Journal of 
Morphology, dated September, 1898, has just appeared and contains 
the following articles: Budding in Perophora, by G. Lefevre ; On the 
Morphology of Certain of the Bones of the Cheek and Snout of 
Amia Calva, by E. P. Allis, Jr.; The Location of the Basis of the 
Amphibian Embryo, by A. C. Eycleshymer ; and The Cocoons and 
Eggs of Allolobophora Feetida, by Katharine Foot. 
The last number of the Journal of Comparative Neurology, Vol. 
IX, No. 2, contains, besides the usual editorial and literary notices, 
Nerve Termini in the Skin of the Common Frog, Part I, by G. E. 
Coghill; The Number and Arrangement of the Fibres forming the 
Spinal ‘Nerves of the Frog, by Irving Hardesly; The Total Number 
of Functional Nerve Cells in the Cerebral Cortex of Man, and the 
Percentage of the Total Volume of the Cortex composed of Nerve 
Cell Bodies, calculated from Karl Hammarberg’s Data, together 
with a Comparison of the Number of Giant Cells with the Number of 
Pyramidal Fibres, by H. B. Thompson; A Note on the Significance 
of the Small Volume of the Nerve Cell Bodies in the Cerebral Cortex 
of Man, by H. H. Donaldson. 
BOTANY. 
Weber’s Cacti in Bois’s Dictionnaire d’ Horticulture.’ — The com- 
piler of this dictionary was fortunate in securing, as one of the many 
associate editors, Dr. Albert Weber as the authority for the order 
Cactacee. This was a wise selection in view of the fact that in all 
probability no other man to-day has such rich opportunities for study- 
ing the order, or has given so much careful consideration to it as Dr. 
Weber. 
1 Bois, D. Dictionnaire d’ Horticulture. Paris, 1893. 4to. 
