32 — Recent Literature. [ January, 
recognized rules come under them, there are quite a number, 
such as Chiton (restricted) for Chiton hanleyi; Lepidopleurus to 
Chiton alveolus M. Sars, Nacella to Patina pellucida, Acmea (re- 
stricted) to Collisella testudinalis, while Tectura is retained for 
Acmea virginea, Scutellina to Pilidium fulvum, Ampullina to Bul- 
bus Smithit, Chrysodomus (as of Swainson) to Fusus Turtont, while 
a typical Chrysodomus is called Neptunea, and so on. We are far 
from asserting that these blemishes are sufficient to condemn 
wholly a work which will always be of permanent value, yet it is 
impossible not to regret, that while the greater part of it is sc 
very good the remainder was not brought a little nearer perfec- 
tion. We presume the work, though not provided with a nominal 
publisher may be had of the author, or of the authorities of the 
University of Christiania. It was actually issued on the 6th of 
June, 1878, though proofs of part of the plates had been kindly 
furnished to several naturalists some time before their publication. 
—W. H. Dall. 
SMITHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1877.'—This report, the last made 
by the lamented Henry, contains matter of very general interest, 
not only as to the workings of the Smithsonian Institution but 
also the progress in the scientific explorations of the United 
States. Of particular value is the full “ List of the more important 
Explorations and Expeditions, the collections of which have con- 
stituted the principal sources of supply to the National Museum, 
which prosecuted.” Besides the numerous articles in the appen- 
dix, translated and original, concerning archeology, physics and 
meteorology, zoologists will be interested in the translation of 
Weismann’s parad Se ae “On the Change of the Mexican 
Axolotl to an Amblystoma 
PALZZ:ONTOLOGICAL Resse OF THE PRINCETON SCIENTIFIC Ex- 
PEDITION OF 1877.2—This stout pamphlet represents the work of 
an expedition of students of Princeton College, who, under the 
auspices of Prof. Guyot, director of the museum of that institu- 
tion, made an exploration of the fossiliferous beds of the Bridger 
Basin of Wyoming, and the fish-bearing shales of the South Park 
of Colorado. It is cause of congratulation on the part of the 
friends of scientific education, that the liberal endowment of this 
department at Princeton College should have commenced thus 
early to bear fruit, and in so profitable a direction. The seed 
sown by the late Mr. Green has evidently fallen into good ground, 
and we see at once the realization of President McCosh’s view, 
that the great schools should not only be institutions for teaching, 
1 Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution .. . for 
~ 1877. Washington, 1878. 8vo, pp. 500 
-Contributions fromt the Museum of Geology ma “Shere. Mad Princeton rage 
= 1, Palzeontological sg ada c. By HENRY F. OSBORN M. B. ScoT 
Francis SPIER, Jr. Sept. 1, 1878. 8vo, pp. opi pl. x, 
