638 General. Notes. [August, 
THE JELLY FisHes oF NARRAGANSETT Bay.—A beautifully illus- 
‘trated memoir entitled ‘‘ Studies on the jelly-fishes of Narragansett 
bay,” by J. W. Fewkes, appears in the Bulletin of the Museum of 
Comparative Zodlogy, under date of February, 1881. It con- 
tains an account of certain new Acalephe, collected by the author 
during three summers spent at Newport, with anatomical and 
embryological notes. As it is impossible to give an abstract of 
the article, we would refer the reader to the memoir itself, merely 
stating that a number of interesting forms originally described by 
Professor McCrady from Charleston, South Carolina, range as far 
north as Newport. 
conquest. “There seems to be no reason why, so far as the 
e U.S. coast steamer Blake, dredged along the east coast of 
the United States during the summer of 1880, have been an 
scribed, with numerous figures, by Mr. E. B. Wilson, in the 
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. d 
able feature in their deep sea forms, as in those elsewhere foun 
are their colossal size, compared with the shoal water forms ; 
also, in a number of forms, the eyes (ocelli) are (1) either on 
mentary and destitute of pigment; or (2) entirely absent; whi : 
on the other hand in Pallenopsis the eyes are relatively of un 
