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Dorocidaris; some alteration would have to be made in the structure 
of the dorsal organ at the same time, for it does not consist as defi- 
nitely of a number of anastomosing tubular structures as it does in 
the asterid. Furthermore, we may predict that if, as Bury shows, that 
in asterids the axial sinus is derived from the left anterior enterocele, 
careful investigation will show that the canal aquifére annexe, or axial 
sinus of echinids, is similar in its development. 
In ophiurioids an axial (perihemal) sinus exists, but according to 
Hamann it does not communicate with the water vascular apparatus . 
in the adult. 
This view seems to me to reconcile the discrepancies in the deserip- 
tions which have been published of the anatomy of the region, the 
differences having apparently arisen from the retention or loss of the 
embryonic condition of the individual examined. 
Wild Animals and Snakes in India.—In the report on the 
Administration of the Bombay Presidency for the year 1890-91 is to 
be found the following interesting account of “ The destruction of wild 
animals and venomous snakes”: The whole number of people killed 
by wild animals and snakes within the Presidency, including Scind, 
during the year 1890, was 1122 as compared with 1160 in the previous 
year. Thenumber of deaths caused by tigers and leopards was twenty 
only, of which sixteen occurred in the Khandesh District. In the 
previous year forty-seven persons were thus killed in that District. 
In the Broach District seven persons were killed by wolves and three 
by other animals. The mortality from snake-bite was slightly lower 
than in the previous year. The most deaths from this cause occurred 
in Scind, there being 497 ; the fewest in the Central Division, but 105. 
In the Northern and Southern Divisions there were 241 and 232 
respectively. The number of wild cattle killed by beasts of prey and 
snakes decreased from 2188 in 1889 to 1883 in 1890. In Kanara, 
however, the number of cattle killed in 1890 was 938, exceeding the 
record for the past ten years. The total number of wild animals 
destroyed during the year was 836, and of snakes 406,092 ; this was 
97,703 fewer snakes than in 1889. The total amount paid as rewards 
for the destruction of wild animals and snakes during the year was 
12,655 rupees, 13 annas and 2 pice (about $5,695.15). (Forest and 
Stream, April 14, 1892.) 
The Phylogeny of the Apteryx.—Prof. T. J. Parker concludes 
his memoir on the anatomy and development of the Apteryx® with the 
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