578° Scientific Serials. [ August, 1878. 
it be well supported by the “sinews of war,” or have a field not 
already occupied. by an existing one. Nevertheless, the method 
which marks the primitive stage of scientific organization of 
allowing incompetent persons to have charge of the issue of 
scientific serials, must result in independent publications. So 
whatever the raison d'etre of the publication before us, it offers 
an example of the only way of escaping various abuses. 
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZOOLOGIE, Supplement 
Protozoa, by A. Schneider. On the form and significa- 
tion of organic muscle-cells, by W. Flemming. Remarks 
primigenius), b rzesniowski. On the unity of structure of 
he brain: in the different orders of insects, by J. H. L. Flogel. 
Archigetes sieboldi, a sexually mature Cestode nurse, by k. 
Leuckart. The Epiphysis in the brain of Plagiostomes, by E. 
Ehlers. . 
ARCHIV FUR NATURGESCHICHTE, Yahrgang 44, Heft. 3—Her- 
petological studies, by J. von Bedriaga. Contribution to anatomy 
_of the integument of mammals, by H. Ribbert. Attempt at a 
“natural classification of the spiders, by G. Bertkau. Reflections 
on the theory by which season dimorphism in butterflies may be 
explained, by P. Kramer, Contribution to a knowledge of her- 
maphroditism and the spermatophores in the nephropneutic Gas- 
thopods, by G. Pfeffer. 
ANNALES DES SCIENCES NATURELLES, March 20—Observa- 
tions on the structure of the eyes of crustacea and worms, by J. 
Chatin. Observations on the Notommata dees: and its para- 
-sitism in the tubes of Vaucheria, by M. Balbia 
_ JENAISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFT, March 15. 
—Individuality in “ene a E Haeckel. The Leptomedus 
of Heligoland, by R. B 
PSYCHE, Jan., Feb.—Recent Progress of Entomology in North 
America, by S. H. Scudder. Bibliographical Record. 
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