1880. | Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. - Org 
i June 18.—Mr. Blodgett made some observations on “ Certain 
features of industrial migrations.” 
July 16.—Prof. Cope presented a paper “On the Genera of the 
Creodonta? 
Aug. 20.—Two papers were presented, entitled “ Notes respect- 
ing a re-eroded channel-way ” and “ Notes on some features of 
the Geology of Scott and Wise counties, Va.,” by J. J. Stevenson. 
Sept. 17—Mr. H. G. Jones pre a paper entitled “ Notes 
on the Cumberland or Potomac Coal basin.” Mr. Lesley pro- 
posed another Egyptian etymology in Greek, viz, the name of the 
Eleusinian Sun God, Jaxyos from azu in the Sphinx name of the 
“iS morning sun god Horus:—Hor-m-azu, The sun on the 
orizon. 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MicroscopicAL Sciexce—October: 
Larval Forms: their nature, origin and affinities, by F. M. Balfour. 
(An attempt to study the relations of the larve of Echinoderms, 
mollusks and worms, and to determine the characters of the com- 
mon prototype, Pilidium coming nearest to this form in the 
course of its conversion into a bilateral form; the Trochosphere 
being a completely differentiated bilateral form in which an anus 
has become developed, The bilateral symmetry of the larva of 
Echinoderms is supposed to be secondary, like that of many 
Ccelenterate larve.) The Eye of Pecten, by S.J. Hickson. (Its 
anatomy is exceedingly complicated, and exhibits all the most 
important structural elements of the eyes of the higher Vertebrata, 
but the mode of formation of the molluscan eye is essentially 
different from that of the Vertebrata, and the resemblance in the 
adult is merely accidental, not homological.. The Pecten is proba- 
bly capable of appreciating very diffused light, for the close ap- 
proximation of the lens to the retina makes it exceedingly im- 
probable that any image is formed upon the latter; so that its 
visual power would hi enable it to avoid its enemies.) On the 
terminations of nerves in the epidermis, by L. Ranvier. On the 
termination of the nities in the mammalian cornea, by E. Klein. 
~ ANNALES DES SCIENCES apie ea August. On the Meta- 
morphoses of Bryozoa, by J. Barrois. Researches in the fauna 
of southern regions, by A. Milne-Edwards (based on the Rie intel 
ical distribution of the penguins, with a map and plate). 
ZeITSCHRIFT FUR “WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZooLoGtE—Sept. 10. 
The anatomy of Distomum hepaticum, by F. Sommer (richly illus- 
trated). Description of the nervous system of Oryctes nasicornis 
in the larva, pupa'and beetle stages, by H. Michels (elsewhere 
noticed), 
