1884.] Microscopy and Histology. 445 
entitled “Inventaire des Monuments Megalithiques du Départ- 
ment d'Ille and Vilaine ” [in North-west France]. Published by 
Societé Archéologique d'Ille-et-Vilaine, 1883, pp. 280, 29 
plates, and 2 maps. The plan of the work is as follows: Dol- 
mens, alignments, cromlechs, polishing stones, pierres a bassins, 
rocking stones, to the number of 425 are located and described 
minutely. This occupies 241 pages, and is followed by a table in 
which, by number, these megaliths are defined by communes, 
cantons, and arrondissements. The 29 plates are devoted to illus- 
trating the most prominent and notable of the monuments. The 
map locates, by means of the Mortillet and Chantre symbols, 
‘very monument in Sixt and St. Just, and the second map, in a 
general way, indicates the distribution of these works in the 
entire department above named. : 
Tae Anturopotocicat Society or Lyon.—The first part of 
Vol. 2 of the Bulletin of this society is at hand. Much of the 
contents has little interest for us. On page 72 isashort paper on 
Ti illustrated with two plates of arms and utensils. There 
| ment at our Centennial Exhibition. It is still in use quite 
_“Mensively in Northern Africa and Western Asia. On pages 
107 M. „Ernest Chantré describes carefully a necropolis ex- 
Pored by him in Koban (Caucasus). M. Cornivin has for a long 
ger been studying the wormian bones in the face of domestic 
- “imals—an abstract is given on page IIQ. 
MICROSCOPY AND HISTOLOGY.! 
| 
ts 
aa AS A FIXATIVE For MicroscopicaL SECTIONS.— 
. xed by means of a solution of collodion in clove oil, 
The 
raphe which is prepared by dissolving one part collodion 
sol is as follows 
tess is ke ee: If the film of collodion be too thick, cloudi- 
be tema), ©° arise between the sections. The cloudiness can 
s et use of a brush, wet with clove oil, after the 
es € been anhydrated by absolute alcohol. 
by e c.o. WHITMAN, Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. 
Mee. 2 | Ueber ein Verfahren mikroskopische Schnitte auf dem Ob- 
“fixiren und daselbst zu färben.” Archiv. f. Mik. Anat. XXII, p. 689, 
abd 
