192 Seientifie Serials. [ March. 
on the Nervous System of Hymenopterous Insects, by E. Brandt (ab- 
stract by the editors). 
APPALACHIAN Mountain CLUB. — January 10th. A paper on the 
Flowering Plants of the White Mountains was read by Mr. J. H. Hunt- 
ington. 
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. — New York, January 22d. The following 
papers were read: The Occurrence of Microlite in Massachusetts and 
North Carolina, by A. A. Julien; The Fossil Fishes of the Connecticut 
Valley, New Jersey, and Virginia, by Dr. J. S. Newberry; The Quartz- 
es, Micas, and Feldspars of New York City and Vicinity. 
Boston Society or Naturat History. — January 3d. Mr. J. H. 
Emerton made a comparison of the spiders of North America and 
Europe. 
January 17th. — Papers were read by Dr. D. Hunt on The Closure 
of the first Branchial Cleft in the Mammalia; by Dr. T: M. Brewer 
On the Peculiar Parasitic Habits of Molothrus Bonariensis of South 
America; and by Mr. J. H. Huntington on a New Machine for making 
Rock-Sections. 
MONTHLY Microscoricat JOURNAL. — January, 1877. On Navic- 
ula crassinervis, Frustulia Saxionica, and Navicula rhomboides, as Test- 
Objects, by W. H. Dallinger. A Stage Incubator, by H. A. Reeves. 
Notes on Pollen, by W. G. Smith. 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPICAL Science. — January 1877. 
On the Coloring Matters of Various Animals, and especially of Deep-Sea 
Forms dredged by H. M. S. Challenger, by H. N. Moseley. On Stylo- 
chus Pelagicus, a New Species of Pelagic Planarian, with Notes on other 
Pelagic Species, on the Larval Forms of Thysanzoon, and of a Gymno- 
somatous Pteropod, by H. N. Moseley. Note on a Method of preparing 
the Cornea, by Dr. E. Klein. Schiefferdecker’s Microtome, by P. Kidd. 
The Minute Structure of the Gills of Lamellibranch Mollusca, by R- 
H. Peck. Résumé of Recent Contributions to our Knowledge of Fresh- 
water Rhizopoda. Part III. Heliozoa and Monothalamia, compiled 
by William Archer. E. Schultze and Herting’s Discovery of Nuclei in 
Foraminifera, by the Editors. : 
Tue GeoLocIcat MAGAZINE. — January, 1877. On Evolution in 
Geology, by W. J. Sollas. The Supposed Glacial Origin of Carbonifer- 
ous Terraces, by J. R. Dakyns. : 
Tue Porurar Science Review. — January, 1877. Nursing Echin- 
oderms. (Describing Viviparous forms.) 
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Erratum. — Page 122, tenth line from bottom, for Peruvian read Permian. 
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