70 Scientific Serials. [ January, 
Garman read a paper on some features of erosion in the tem- 
perate zones. Dec. 5—Mr. S. H. Scudder made a communica- 
tion on certain interesting articulates from the Carboniferous rocks 
of Illinois, and Professor A. Hyatt remarked on the evolution 
of the races of Planorbis multiformis. 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences, Nov. 19.—Professor J. S. 
St. John read a paper on the application of dry plate photogra- 
phy in preparing, without a camera, glass transparencies of sec- 
tions of fossils for projection (with lantern illustrations). Profes- 
sor T. Egleston spoke of some remarkable forms of amethysts 
from Brazil; and Mr. A. A. Julien remarked on the chemical and 
microscopical characters of certain American rocks. 
“SCIENTIFIC SERIALS.! 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL oF MicroscopicaL Science.—October. 
Loxosoma, by Carl Vogt. Abstracted and annotated by the Rev. — 
J. Hincks. On the minute structural Relations of the Red — 
Blood Corpuscles, by A. Boettcher. Notes on the Embryology 
and Classification of the Animal Kingdom: comprising a Revis- _ 
ion of Speculations relative to the Origin and Significance of the — 
Germ-layers, by E. R. Lankester. 1 
Tae GeotocicaL Macazine.—November. American Surface — 
Geology, and its relations to British: with some Remarks on Gla- _ 
cial Conditions in oa e “The Great Ice Age” of Mr. — 
James Geikie (Part i.), b V. Wood. Across Europe and — 
Asia, Part vi. Tornsk to Sisk by J. Milne. 
ANNALS AND MaGazineE oF Naturat History. — November. 
On a Carboniferous wera and other “eon from Ayr 
shire, by Prof. and Mr. J. You 
ANNALES DES SCIENCES ea ae 15. Recher i 
_ pour servir à l’Histoire de la Respiration chez les Poissons, par 
_M. Jobert. Recherches pour servir a l'Histoire du Batonnet 
optique chez les Crustacés et les Vers, par J. Chatin. : 
Tue GEOGRAPHICAL Macazi nE—November. Quetta and the 
= Afghans, by H. G. Raverty. The Island of Perim. 
CanapiaAn Enromotocist.—November. Pieris we a yen 
ey of Pjeris protodice, by T. E. Bean. An account of somè 
her experiments upon the effect of cold in changing’ the For 
of certain Butterflies, by W. H. Edwards. 
a The articles enumerated under this head are usually selected. o 
