600 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [July, 1881. 
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL Society, May 10.—Mr. J. Douglas, 
Jr., read a paper on Chili; its geography, people and institutions. 
APPALACHIAN Mountain Crus, May 21.—An excursion of the 
members was made to Doublet hill, Weston, and one to Mt. Grey- 
lock via the Hoosac Tunnel, was projected for June 17th. At the 
meeting held June 8th, Mr. H. Murdock read a paper on the 
region surrounding the Smith’s River valley, N. H., and Mr. 5. 
H. Woodbridge gave a description of the scenery about Williams- 
town, Mass. 
Troy Screntiric Association, Feb. 21.—Dr. R. H. Ward read 
a paper on the recent teachings of the microscope in regard to 
different kinds of blood, 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
ANNALS AND MaGaAzinE 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. 
ANNALS AND MacGazine oF Natura History.—April. Gen- 
eral considerations upon the carcinological fauna of great depths 
in the Carribean sea and Gulf of Mexico, by A. Milne-Edwards. 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ScIENCcE, June. — Geological relations 
of the Limestone belts of Westchester county, New York, outh- 
ern Westchester county and Northern New York island, by J. D. 
Dana. Fossil fishes from the Devonian rocks of Scaumenac bay, 
Province of Quebec, by J. F. Whiteaves. New Jurassic mam- 
mals, by O. C. Marsh. 
Canapian Narturatist.—April 30. Paleontological notes, by 
J. W. Dawson. Notes on the geology of the Peace River regio? 
by G. M. Dawson. On the glacial phenomena of the Bay Cha- 
leur region, by R. Chalmers. 
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR WISSENSCHAFTLICHE Zootocie.— April 22. 
The organ of smell and the nervous system of mollusks, by J: 
W. Spengel. (The olfactory organ is composed of a pair of olfac- 
tory ganglia united with an epithelial organ of hearing, the entire 
apparatus connected by commissures with the visceral ganglia). 
Process of self-division in Euglypha alveolata, by A. Gruber. 
The developmental history of the Amphipoda, by B. Uliana 
(with an exquisite colored plate). On molluscan eyes of an em- 
bryonic type, by P. Fraisse. The white of the egg-gland of Am- 
phibia and birds, by P. A. Loos. 
GrotocicaL Macazing. May.—The mammoth in Europe, ed 
H. H. Howorth; glaciation of the Shetland, by D. Milne 
Home; Geology of British Columbia, by G. M. Dawson. 
Errata.—P, 363, line 19, for Macerna read Macoma. P. 365 
line 21, for Japanese parts read Japanese ports. 
