1878.] Scientific News, — i 
Bois-Reymond asks that more science be taught in the German 
gymnasia, though he does not propose p convert the gymnasium 
into a school for science-teaching. “All that I ask is that as muc 
shall shall be done to meet the aen of the future physician, 
architect or military officer as those of the future judge, or 
preacher, or teacher of classical languages. Thus I ask for only 
so much natural history in the lower, classes of the school as will 
awaken the faculty of observing, and that facilities be given for 
epo 
should like to inca ‘taught, not waders and chemistry with 
more than heretofore could be devoted without injury.” 
— In Von Thering’s recent work on the nervous system of mol- 
luscs, a new arrangement of the molluscs is given which may be 
novel to our malacologists, as the work itself is rather expensive. 
The genus Chiton and allies are associated with the worm Cheto- 
derma and the doubtful form Neomenia, forming the Phylum 
Amphineura,-as follows : 
VERME 
Phyl n Amphincur. 
Class $. gr rac seg ease Menus 
‘acophora (Chitonidz). 
The E are thus gia : 
LUSCA. 
Phylini E; ces O EE 
at Solenoconche (Scaphopoda). 
: . Arthrocochlides Snes sen Earls ata). 
fe WV. Platycochtides (Class 1. oda, embracing the Nudibranchiata, Tec- 
nchiata and Pulmonata.) t 
oe Pero 
"i Ceckalopota. 
work on the songs of birds and other animals as related 
to human music, and as furnishing a basis for a theory of melody, 
is in course of preparation by Mr. Xenos Clarke, of San Fran- 
cisco, Cal., who writes that “the chief impediment is the lack of 
recorded observations. I should be —_ grateful if you could 
References to books, etc., con ‘tars ning songs of birds or 
other animals in musical notation. (Copies of these would be 
still more valuable. 
“2. Results of your observations on birds or their songs. 
. Is there noticed with any p in these songs the 
occurrence of any fundamental intervals of human music, as the- oo 
octave, fifth, fourth and third ? 
