352 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [April, 1881. 
SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC. SERIALS. 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND Arts.—March, Struct ‘re 
and affinities of Euphorberia of Meek and Worthen, by S. H. Scud- 
der. Origin of some new points in the topography of North 
Carolina, by W. C. Kerr. ; 
Tue GrotocicaL MaGazineE.—February. The glaciation of the 
Shetland isles, by B. N. Peach. Oceanic islands, by T. M. Reade. 
ANNALS AND MaGazinE oF Naturat History. — January. 
Spolia atlantica, Contributions to the knowledge of the changes 
of form in fishes during their growth and development, especially 
in the pelagic fishes of the Atlantic, by C. F. Litken (continued 
in the February number). 
BULLETIN OF THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITO- 
RIES— Vol. vi, No. 1, Feb. 11. The vegetation of the Rocky 
Mountain region, and a comparison with that of other parts of the 
world, by A. Gray and J. D. Hooker. On some new Batrachia 
and Reptilia from the Permian beds of Texas. Ona wading-bird 
from the Amyzon shales, by E. D. Cope. Osteology of Speotyto 
cunicularia var. hypogea, by R. W. Shufeldt. Osteology of 
Eremophila alpestris, by R. W. Shufeldt. Preliminary list of the 
N. A. species of Agrotis, with descriptions, by A. R. Grote. On 
the Nimravidz and Cgnidz of the Miocene period, by E. D. Cope. 
On the vertebrata of the Wind river Eocene beds of Wyoming, 
by BE. 1) Cope: > =. : 
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR W AFTLICHE ZOOLOGIE, FEB. 1.—On 
the alternations of generations of oak-gall wasps, by H. Adler. Re- 
searches on the Orthonectidz, by E. Metschnikoff. Contribution 
the outer neurilemma of the ventral nervous cord, and this latter 
passes into the vessel. The tissue is a gelatinous connective 
tissue. On the pairing and reproduction of a species of Scyllium, 
by H. Bolau. 
JENAISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURWISSENSCHAFT, January 25-— 
The Coelom-theory, attempt at an explanation of the middle 
germ layer, by O. and R. Hertwig. The authors give a long dis- 
cussion of the subject, regarding the Ccelenterates except the 
Ctenophora as possessing no genuine mesoderm, they apply ne 
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relations of the mesoderm in the higher animals. Contributions 
to the knowledge of the structure of the butterfly’s tongue, by 
W. Breitenbach. : 
