88 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [Jan., 1881. 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences, Nov. 8.—Prof. Newberry 
made a communication on the antimony mines of Southern 
Utah.. Prof. D. S. Martin exhibited specimens of wax from the 
Carnauba palm of Northern Brazil, and gave an account of its 
production, etc. 
Nov. 22.—-Miss Adelina Bierck described the volcanic eruption 
at Lake Ilopango, San Salvador, and Mr. A. A. Julien gave an 
- account of a visit to the great alum cave of Sevier county, Ten- 
nessee, 
Nov. 29.—Prof. H. A. Ward gave a description of the Island 
of Volcano. 
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL Society. Nov. 18.— Rev. Owen 
Street read a paper on the changes in the physical geography of 
the ancient home of man in Central and Western Asia. 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZOOLOGIE—Nov. 6. On 
the relationship of the Cephalopoda, by H. von Ihering. The 
organ of smell of the land pulmonates, by Dr. D. Sochaczewer. 
(Refers to the structure of the feelers, and Moquis Tandon’s opin- 
ion that the end or “terminal button” is the seat of the organ of a 
smell. He then discusses the nature of the organ of Semper and 
of the foot-glands, and thinks that the latter are more properly 
organs of smell, as at the base of the excretory duct of the pedal 
gland are distinct ciliated sense-cells which are like the ciliated | ‘ 
sense-cells in the skin of mollusks discovered by Flemming.) On 
the cases of the Trichopterous larvae of Santa Catharina, Brazil, 
by Fritz Miiller. (Figures and describes a great variety of singu- 
lar forms of caddis-fly cases.) Researches on the Dysideidan — 
and Phorio-sponges, by W. Marshall. On two early human 
embryos, by W. Krause (with excellent figures). The pedal 
nerve-system of Paludina vivipara, by H. Simroth. 
Tue GEoLocicaL MaGazine— November. Precambrian vol- 
canos and glaciers, by H. Hicks. The Mammoth in Siberia, by 
H. H. Howorth. : 
Dates OF PUBLICATION. OF THE NATURALIST FOR 1879 AND 1880. , : 
—1879: January No., January 4th; February, February 4thy 
March, February 27th ; April, March 26th; June, May 2oth; July, 
June 17th; September, August 22d; November, October ‘25th; — : 
December, December 4th. 1880: January, January 2d; February, — 
January 31st; March, February 25th; April, March 21st; May. 
April 27th; June, May 2ist; July, June 18th; August, July 
22d; October, September 21st; November, October 23d; Der? 
cember, November 25th. 
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