:-ials. [March, 1882. 



New York Academy of Sciences, Jan. 9.— Dr. L. Johnson 

 described the parallel drift hills of Western New York, and Pro- 

 fessor J. S. Newberry remarked on hypothetical high tides as 

 agents of geological change. 



Jan. 30. — The following papers were read: The discovery of 

 emeralds in North Carolina, illustrated with remarkable specimens, 

 by Mr. Wm. Earl Hidden. Mr. George F. Kunz exhibited a 

 series of ancient obsidian knives found near the city of Guatemala, 

 C.A. 



Feb. 6. — Professor J. S. Newberry remarked on the origin and 

 relations of the carbon minerals. 



SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 



American Journal of Science, February.— The flood of the 

 Connecticut river valley from the melting of the Quaternary gla- 

 cier, by J. D. Dana. Geology of the diamond, by O. A. Derby. 

 A Cercaria with caudal setae, by J. W. Fewkes. Notice of a re- 

 markable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the south- 

 ern coast of New England, by A. E. Verrill. 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, January. — 

 On the morphology of . the fungus of the coffee 



disease of Ceylon), by H. M. Ward. On the nature of the organ 

 in adult Teieosteans and Ganoids, which is usually regarded as 

 the head-kidney or pronephros, by F. M. Balfour. Observations 

 on the resting stage of i es, by P. Ged- 



des. Review of recent researches in karyokinesis and cell divis- 

 ion, by J. T. Cunningham. The micro-organisms which occur in 

 septicaemia, by G. F. Dowdesnell. Pringsheim's researches on 

 chlorophyll, translated and condensed by B. Balfour. 



Zeitschrift furWissenchaftliche Zoologie, December 30. — 

 On the structure of the bird-inhabiting Sarcoptidae, by G. Haller. 

 On Scoloplos anin^tr, by \V. Man. Comparative-embryological 

 studies, by E. Metschnikoff Dimorpla nutans, a connective form 

 between the Flagellata and Helliosa, by A. Gruber. Contribu- 

 tions to a knowledge of Amoebae, by A. Gruber. Contributions 

 to a knowledge of Radiolarian shells, by O. Butschli. 



Zoological Magazine, January. — Traces of a great post-glacial 

 flood, by H. H. Haworth. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, December — .On 

 certain points in the morphology of the Blastoidea, by P. H. 

 Carpenter. 



