1887] Recent Literature. 167 
introduction, and its terminology replace the meaningless terms 
like “elephant’s breath,” etc., introduced in trade, it would have 
a very beneficial effect. As to the correctness of the colors we 
cannot in all cases decide. We have never seen clothes worn as 
long as the famous ones of the Spanish queen, but should judge 
that the representation of “Isabella color’ was about the hue 
that linen would assume under such conditions. 
e only bibliographical omission we ee is the absence 
of reference to the two handsome volumes of 
The remainder of the book is more Sarmclatly suited for the 
ornithologist. It contains a vocabulary of the technical terms 
used in descriptive ornithology, which occupies fifty-eight pages ; 
tables for the conversion of metric into English measures, and 
others for reducing inches to millimetres. The seven plates 
which illustrate this part of the book give the parts of a bird 
named. The portions of the head, shapes of wings, different 
markings of feathers, shapes of eggs, and comparisons of milli- 
metres with English and French inches. The most noticeable 
specially intended. 
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Arachnides. E Arch. de Biol., vii., 1886. From the a 
Spencer, W. B.—On the Structure and Presence i in Sphenodon a other Lizards of 
the Median Eye. ote Proc. Roy. Soc., 1886. From the author 
Minot, C. S. ae Number-Habit. Ext. Proc. Am. Soc. Psy. EE 1886. 
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Goss, N. S. aS “of Kansas. Topeka, 1886. From the author. 
McMurrich, F. P—A Contribution to the Embryology of the Biceobran h Gastero- 
pods. Ext, Stud. Biol. Lab. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1886. From the author. 
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Tanas Albatross. Ext. Ann. Rep. Commissioner re Fish and Fisheries, 1886. 
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Annual Report Smithsonian Institution for are ar From the Institution. 
Scudder, S. H.—Systematic Review of our Pr owledge of Fossil Insects, 
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Herrick, F. H- aai on the Embryology of Alpheus and other Crustacea, and 
the Development of the Compound Eye. Ext. Circ. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1886. 
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Plateau, E ur la perception de la Lumière par les Myriopodes 
wi a Ext. Jour. dei P Anat. et Phys., 1886. From the author. 
Norman, A. M., and Stebbing, T. R. R—On the Crustacea Isopoda of the “ Light- 
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De Borre, A. P.—Note sur les Crustacts eagar de la Religi Ext. C. R. Soc. 
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