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functions. We like the plan of the book, which bears marks of 
care in preparation and cautious treatment, while the statements 
are made in a clear simple way, which will make the book of use 
to advanced college classes, but more especially to teachers. So 
vast at the present day is the science even of human physiology, 
so much has been worked out of late, that it is difficult to put in 
a convenient compass all the information which the student, 
and more especially the teacher, should have. Where it has seemed 
profitable, hygienic topics have been treated briefly, and in an ap- 
pendix the subject of reproduction and development, with their 
practical bearings, has been well, briefly and sufficiently discussed. 
he book is sold with or without the appendix. The work is 
well rounded, comprehensive in its treatment, and as the latest 
work of the kind is commended to students as well as to teachers. 
The illustrations are good and sufficiently abundant ; a fair num- 
ber are original. 
VERRILL’S CEPHALOPODS OF THE East Coast oF NortH AMERI- 
of the species mentioned in this paper, with one exception, 
are new to science; four of the genera are new, and all the forms 
inhabit depths off our coast from about 100 to 1632 fathoms. 
The drawings illustrating Professor Verrill’s descriptions were 
made by Mr. Emerton; the subjects are difficult to render, but 
probably no more truthful delineations of these animals have ever 
been published than these illustrating this brochure. 
Minor’s STUDIES ON THE ToNnGUES OF REPTILES AND BirDs.’— 
This memoir consists mainly of a description of the soft parts of 
the tongue of the mocassin snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus), with 
the addition of observations on the tongue of the rattlesnake, 
the common garter-snake, with two lizards, chameleon and Amerra 
surinamensis, and the mocking-bird. Hitherto nothing has been 
i Report on the Cephalopods, and on some additional species dredged by the U. S. 
Ve Commission Steamer Fish Hawk, during the season of 1880. A. E. 
errill, Bolletia of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard College. 
» No. 5. ‘ 
th Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz on 
S € east coast of the United States, during the summer of 15950, by the U. S. Coast 
rae ae Steamer Blake, Commander, J. R. Bartlett, U. S, N., commanding. Cam- 
ridge, March, 1881, : 
thie ities on the Tongues of Reptiles and Birds. By Charles S. Minot. (From 
ic cro ian Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History). Boston, 1880. 
- Pp. 20. 
