770 Scientific Serials. [ November, 1878. 
APPALACHIAN Mountain CLuB, Oct. 9th.—Rev. H. G. Spauld- 
ing read a paper entitled Something about Moosilauk and the 
Franconia Range; Prof. J. H. Huntington gave an account of the 
co esr neg! river and its physical and topographical features, 
ile Mt. Ascutney, Vt., was described by Mr. Frederic Gar- 
nee Jr. 
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SCIENTIFIC SERIALS} 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL Society.—July 6, 
August 16, No. iv. On the Nyassa and a journey from the 
north end to Zanzibar (with a map), by H. B. Cotterhill. Travels 
in Western China and on the eastern Cahiers of Tibet, by W. J. 
Gill. On the Geographical results of the Mission to Kashgar, 
under Sir T. Douglas Forsyth, in 1873-4, by H. Trotter. No.v _ 
contains the president’ s (Sir Rutherford Abodi) address. No. vi 
Geographical sketch of the Nile and Livingstone (Congo) basins, 
H. M. Stanley. A lecture on plant-distribution as a field for 
geographical research, by Thistleton Dyer. 
SIEBOLD AND KOLLIKER’S ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE 
ZooLoGiE.—September 6. Contributions to a knowledge of the 
Julide, by E. Voges. On the formation of the blastoderm and 
the germinal layers in insects, by N. Bobretsky. Additions to a 
knowledge of the genus Brisinga, by H. Ludwig. Aspidura, a 
genus of mesozoic Ophiuridz, by H. Pohlig. Fifth article on the 
structure and development of Sponges. The metamorphosis of 
Sycandra raphanus, by F. E. Schulze. 
Tue GrotocicaL Macazine.—August. On the form of Vol- 
canoes, by J. Milne. On a method of estimating the extent of 
Geological Areas, by T. M. Hall. September.—Notes on some 
Arctic Silurian fossils from Beechey island and from Port Dundas, 
neaster sound, by H. Woodward. Cataclysmic theories of 
Geological Climate, by J. Croll. Land plants in the Irish Silu- 
rians, by G. H. Kinahan. Wayside Hees in travels over Europe: 
the great Northern drift, by R. Dam 
Tue GeocrapuicaL Macazinr.—September. The Treaty of 
a Berlin (with a map). Richthofen on Prejevalsky’s journey in 
_ Central Asia, Abyssinia. A new Survey of the Amazon. Indian ~ 
irrigation, by H. P. Malet. 
= Psycne.—March and April. The Entomological writings of 
John L. LeConte, compiled by Samuel Henshaw, edited by George 
— _Dimmock. Oviposition in Spiders, by J. H. Emerton. 
j "Toe articles enumerated under this head are usually selected. 
