128 Scientific Serials. [ February. 
est. The general verdict appeared to be that further confirmation of the 
character and original authorship of the asserted chronology was much 
to be desired. : 
Boston Society or Narurat History.— November Ist. Prof. 
A. Hyatt made a communication on sponges, discussing their mode of 
development, based on original observations, and expressing his opinion 
that they formed the type of a new sub-kingdom of animals. r. J. A. 
Allen remarked on the American beavers, recent and fossil. 
November 15th. Two papers were read by C. S. Minot entitled 
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Classification of some of the Lower Worms; Description of a New Mi- — 
crotome for Cutting a Series of Sections. 
December 6th. Prof. W. G. Farlow gave an account of certain alge 
belonging to the groups Oscillatoria and Bacteria. 
December 20th. Prof. C. H. Hitchcock and Rev. G. F. Wright spoke 
on ancient glacial moraines in Andover, Mass., and vicinity. 
SCIENTIFIC SERIALS.! 
PreTERMANN’s GEOGRAPHISCHER MITTHEILUNGEN. — October 28th. 
Die neuen administrativen Eintheilungen Japans, von L. Metschnikoff. 
Bilder aus dem hohen Norden, von K. Weyprecht. Lieut. Wheeler’s 
Expedition durch das siidliche Californien im Jahre 1875, von O. Loew. 
Die Temperatur-Verhiltnisse im Meere zwischen Norwegen, Schott- 
land, Island, und Spitzbergen, von H. Mohn. October 9th. Die Insel 
Hawaii und ihre Vulkane, von F. Birgham. Die geographische Ver- 
breitung des Hagels, von H. Fritz. Die jiingsten Forschungen im See- 
‘ngebiet des iiquatorialen Ost-Afrika, von Young, Gessi, Stanley, 1874- 
76. Reisen in Columbien im 1872. 
Arcuiv FÜR NATURGESCHICHTE. — 42. Heft ii. Ueber einige Canis- 
Arten des siidlichen Siidamerika’s, von H. Burmeister. Ueber die Nah- 
rung der Alausa vulgaris, und die Spermatophore von Temora velox Lilj., 
von Max Weber. Die Familie der Bdelliden, von Dr. Kramer. Die 
Hautdecker und Schale der Gastropoden, von F. Leydig. Heft iii. 
Anatomisches und histiologisches ueber Gibocellum, eine neue Arach- 
nide, von A. Stecker. 
Tue GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. — December. Hissar and Kulab 
(Turkistan). The Indian Surveys, 1873-75. 
Tue Grotocicat Macazine — December. On the Glauconite Gran- 
ules of the Cambridge Green Sand, by W. J. Sollas. On Fossils from 
the Glacial Deposits of the Island of Lewis, by R. Etheridge. Fossil- 
iferous Pliocene Clays overlying Basalt in Lough Neagh, by E. T. 
Hardman. 
1 The articles enumerated under this head will be for the most part selected. 
