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Calmettet Barrois, in Bothrops lanceolatus from Martinique. G. 
Marotel gives (Arch. Parasitol., Vol. II, Part I, pp. 34-42, 4 text-figs.) 
a full account of its structure and demonstrates its affinity to the 
fish cestodes of the genus Ichthyotznia. 
An interesting case of nursing habits among frogs is reported by 
Brauer (Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst., Bd. XII, 1898, pp. 89-94) for Arthro- 
leptis seychellensis. The eggs are deposited on the ground and 
brooded by the adult, probably the male; when the larve desert the 
shell, they possess posterior extremities, already indicated, and a long 
tail. They creep onto the back of the adult, fasten themselves, not by 
the mouth, but by the ventral surface, and undergo the remainder of 
their development there. 
The little-known nematode genera Hystrichis and Tropidocerca, 
which occur in the crop of shore birds, have been restudied by von 
Linston (Arch. f. Naturges., 1899, pp. 155-164, Pls. XIII, XIV). 
Many doubtful points in their structure are cleared up. 
“Fresh-water Biological Stations: America’s Example,” by Ð. J. 
Scourfield (Wat. Sci., June, 1899, pp. 450—454), reviews the progress in 
this line of work here and the apparent lack of interest in England. 
It is certainly true that in this matter at least “ England has not 
done her duty.” 
The biological investigation of Lake Erie, under the auspices of 
the U. S. Fish Commission, has made good progress this year. The 
party, under the direction of Professor Reighard, was located at Put- 
in-Bay, O., during July. Among other things may be noted that 
Trochosphera appeared again, and /Palemonetes exilipes was found 
in large numbers. During August one party made a reconnoissance 
along the lake shore, while another worked in the deeper water of 
the open lake. 
The first part of the third volume of Kolliker’s Handbuch der 
Gewebelehre des Menschen has just appeared under the editorship of 
Professor Victor von Ebner, and contains an account of the digestive, 
respiratory, and excretory organs, together with descriptions of such 
nearly related structures as the organs of taste, the thymus and 
thyroid glands, the suprarenal bodies, etc. 
No. 5 of the second volume of the Zod/ogical Bulletin contains the 
following contributions: “A Male Erpetocypris Barbatus Forbes,” 
by C. H. Turner ; “The Reduction Divisions in the Spermatogenesis 
of Desmognathus Fusca,” by B. F. Kingsbury; “ Ovarian Structure 
