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tribution of animal life along the coast of Rhode Island and Mas- 
sachusetts south of Cape Cod. 
The report is also accompanied by a ‘‘ List of the Sea Weeds óf 
the South Coast of New England,” by Dr. W. G. Farlow; 4 
“Report upon the Invertebrate Animals of Vineyard Sound and 
the Adjacent Waters, with an Account of the Physical Characters — 
of the Region,” by Prof. A. E. Verrill, and a ‘Catalogue of the 
Fishes of the East Coast of North America,” by Dr. Theodore 
Gill. o : 
We shall concern ourselves chiefly with the admirable report of 
Prof. Verrill, which we would commend to our readers as 4 full 
and reliable manual of the marine zoology of our southern New 
England shore. It is illustrated by thirty-eight plates containing 
287 figures-(mostly drawn from life by Mr. Emerton) of the inver- — 
tebrate animals, a few of them illustrating early stages of the K 
crustacea. As an evidence of the thorough and detailed mannet — 
in which the subject is discussed, we may cite the chapters into 
which the work is divided :— Fauna of the Bays and “Sounds; — 
Fauna of the Brackish Waters of Estuaries, Harbors, ete. ; Faun) 
of the Colder Waters of the Ocean Shores and Outer Banks and 
Channels; Lists of Species found in the Stomachs of Fishes; 
Habits and Metamorphoses of the Lobster and other Crustacea 
Systematic Catalogue of the Invertebrates of Southern New Eng- 
land and Adjacent Waters. Under these heads will be fou : 
many remarks on the habits of the lower animals, which add much 
to the popular interest and value of the book. 
A good many new forms are described and figured from 1i 
mostly by Mr. Emerton, particularly among the worms and me 
tacea, and in the work of identifying and describing the latter, ©" 
author has been aided by Messrs. S. I. Smith and O. Harget | 
samples of the illustrations, which are simple outlines a 
Jewett process, we offer the following figures kindly loaned by a 
author. Fig. 84, Lerneonema radiata Stp. and Lüt., 2 °*™ 
parasitic on the menhaden. Fig. 85 represents the Cirrh 
grandis in a living state, and 86 the same from a specimen 
served in alcohol; Fig. 87, Clymenella torquata, Fig. 88, ; 
elegans. ` 
We have in the July Narturazst referred to the early e 
the lobster described by Mr. Smith, and now reproduce bis 
of the zoéa of the common crab (Cancer irror atus, Fig. 3 
