278 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. | April, 1879. 
F. Taylor presented the results of some practical studies in Psy- 
cho-biology, with especial reference to the influence of mental 
states on disease. 
h 3.—Mr. W. R. Gerard read a Note on the influence of 
sulphurous acid gas on coniferous trees. 
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL Society, Feb. 27.—Lieut. T. B. M. 
Mason, U.S.N., read a paper entitled the “alier of life at 
sea. 
March 11.—Gen. R. E. Colston lectured upon Life in the east- 
ern and western deserts of Egypt and the Soudan, among the 
Bedouin tribes, with a description of their manners and customs, 
the waterless land, the mirage, the pe pee the camel. 
Boston Society oF NaruraL History, Feb. 19—Mr. H. G 
Kittredge read a paper on the Natural history of” Cotton. Mr. 
L. S. Burbank made a communication on the Clay beds of 
ancient estuaries. 
March 5.—Prof. W. G. Farlow read a paper on North Ameri- — 
can Characez, and Mr. W. O. Crosby spoke concerning a possible 
origin of petrosilicious rocks. 
APPALACHIAN Mountain CLUB, March 12.—Mr. G. F. Ham- 
mett read a paper on the Practical application of mountain 
sketching, and Mr. W. O. Crosby spoke on the Pitch Lake of 
Trinidad. 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
SIEBOLD AND KOLLIKER’S ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE 
Zoo.LoGir.—December 19, 1878. The sexual organs of Cephalo- 
poda, by J. Brock. Sixth paper on the structure and develop- 
ment of sponges, by F. E. Schulze. Studies on the anatomy of 
lean organs—I. On the anatomy of the gills of Serpula, by 
L. Low 
ETAN OF THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SUR- 
VEY OF THE TERRITORIES, Vol. v, No. 1.—Notes on the Aphididæ 
of the United States, with descriptions of species occurring west 
of the Mississippi, by C. V. Riley and J. Monell. . The relations 
of the horizons of extinct vertebrata of Europe and Nort 
America, by E. D. Cope. Observations on the faunz of the Mio- 
cene Tertiaries of Oregon, by E. D. Cope. Notes on the birds 
of Fort Sisseton, Dakota Territory, by C. E. McChesney. Pal- 
zontological papers—No. 9. Fossils of the Jura-Trias of South- 
eastern Idaho, by C. A. White. Jura-Trias section of South- 
eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming, by A. eale. Fossil 
forests of the volcanic Tertiary formations of the Yellowstone 
National Park, by W. H. Holmes. Palzontological papers—No. 
10. Conditions of preservation of invertebrate fossils, by C. A. 
_ White. Supplement to the bibliography of North American 
_ invertebrate Ee. by C. A. White and H. A. Nageton. 
