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AMERICAN a enn LIST OF RECENT BOOKS 
ND PAMPHLETS. 
ANDREWS, C. W.—On z Structure of the Skull in Peloneustes philarchus, a 
Pliosaur from the Oxford Clay. Extr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. London (6), XVI, 
1895. From the author. ; 
Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Municipal League of Philadel- 
phia, 1894-95. 
Bain, H. F.—Cretaceous Deposits of the Sioux Valley. Extr. Iowa Geol. 
Surv., Vol. IIT, 18965. 
Bancs, O.—The Present Standing of the Florida Manatee in the Indian River 
Waters. Extr. Amer. Nat., 1895. From the author. 
Berar, F. E. L.—Preliminary Report on the Food of Woodpeckers. Bull. No. 
7, Dept. Agric., Div. Ornith. and Mam. Washington, 1895. 
Boutencer, G. A.—On the Fishes found by Dr. C. Ternetz in Matto-Grosso 
and Pidkidiy: 
——On the Nursing Habits of two South American Frogs. 
,—— Remarks on some Cranial Characters of the Salmonoids. 
Synopsis of the Genera and Species of the Apodal Batrachians, with 
Description of a new Genus and Species ( Bdellophis vittatus). Extrs. Proceeds. 
Zool. Soc. London, 1895 
—— Descriptions of two new South American Characinoid Fishes 
—Note on a West African Apodal Batrachian hitherto confounded with 
Caecilia seraphini of Aug. Duméril. Extrs. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), XXV, 
1895. From the author 
Brauner, J. C.—Decomposition of Rocks in Brazil. Extr. Bull. Geol. Soc. 
Amer., Vol. 7, 1896. From the Society. 
Brewer, W. M.—A Preliminary Report on the Mineral Resources of the Up- 
per Gold Belt of Alabama, with Supplementary Notes by E. A. Smith. Bull. 
No. 5, Geol. Surv. Alabama, 1896. . A. Smith. 
Bulletins No. 38 and 39, 1896, Hatch Experiment Station, Mass. Agric. Col- 
l 
Bulletins of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Nos. 113- 
117, 1895, and 127, 1896. 
CALKINS, W. W.—The Lichen-Flora of Chicago and Vicinity. Bull. No. I, 
Illinois Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv.,1896. From the author 
CHERRIE, G. K.—Contribution to the Ornithology of San Domingo. Field 
Mus. Pub. 10, Chicago, 1896. From F. J. Skiff. 
Circular No. 11, U. S. Dept. Agriculture, How to Select Good Cheese. From 
the ve ; 
B.—The Fin-fold Origin of the Paired Limbs in the Light of the Pty- 
Peones of isc Sharks. Extr. Anat. Anz., Bd. XI, 1896. From the 
author. 
Dottey, C. 8. _The Pl4nktonokrit, a Centrifugal Apparatus for the Volumetric 
Estimation of the Food Supply of Oysters and other Aquatic Animals. Extr. 
Proceeds. Phila. Acad., 1896. From the author 
Eastman, C. R.—Preliminary Note on the Relations of Certain Body-plates in 
the Dinichthyids. Extr. Amer. Journ. Sci., 1806. From the author. 
