230 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
In connection with the ‘ Geological Magazine,’ it is interesting to learn 
from Dr. Woodward of its considerable longevity. Writing in December, 
1894, he was able to announce: —‘* It is now more than thirty years ago 
since, with my friend Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., we commenced to edit 
the ‘ Geological Magazine,’ Messrs. Longmans & Co. being our publishers. 
Out of the long list of distinguished supporters and contributors to the 
‘ Geological Magazine’ published in 1864, I rejoice that twenty-four original 
names still remain after more than thirty years, namely :—The Duke of 
Argyll, the Earl of Ducie, Sir Archibald Geikie, the Right Hon. Thomas 
Huxley, Sir John Evans, Prof. Prestwich, Prof. T. G. Bonney, Prof. Wilt- 
shire, Prof. Boyd-Dawkins, Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Prof. Dr. A. 
Fritsch, Prof. A. von Koenen, Prof. H. Hull, Prof. H. G. Seeley, Mr. R. 
Etheridge, Mr. William Carruthers, Mr. William Whitaker, Rev. O. Fisher, 
Mr. James Carter, Mr. James Powrie, Mr. R. H. Valpy, Mr. G. C. 
Churchill, Mr. R. F. Tomes, and Mr. E. C. H. Day.” This list is un- 
fortunately not quite so complete as when published, but the magazine has 
lost none of its vitality. 
At a meeting of the Linnean Society, held on March 3rd, Mr. W. A. 
Herdman read a paper by Mr. F. J. Cole, entitled ‘‘ Observations on the 
Structure and Morphology of the Cranial Nerves and Lateral Sense-Organs 
of Fishes, with especial reference to the Genus Gadus.” It contained the 
first description of the lateral-line organs of Gadus, and pit-organs were 
shown to be present. The author concludes that the lateral-line system of 
fishes was not originally metameric, and that it has nothing to do with the 
branchial sense-organs. He regards it and the auditory organs as parts of — 
a system, and their nerves (viz. the superficial ophthalmic, buccal, external : 
mandibular, lateralis, and lateral-line nerves), together with the auditory, — 
as of a series sui generis, and shows that the so-called lateral-line nerve of 
Petromyzon really belongs to the lateralis accessorius system (ramus later- 
alis trigemini, auct.), the morphology of which he fully describes. The 
paper dealt exhaustively both with the afore-mentioned and the subsidiary — 
branches of the subject, which was treated in detail and historically, with ° 
an accompanying exhaustive bibliography. Prof. Howes, discussing the 
subject, drew attention to some observations of the cousins Sarasin, and to 
the experimental work of Sewall, Steiner, Lee, and others upon the auditory 
apparatus of fishes, which supported the author’s conclusions. Referring 
to the investigations of Cogei, he threw out the suggestion that the 
secondary extension of the saccus endolymphaticus into the dorso-lateral 
region of the trunk—since it reaches its maximum in batrachians in which, 
although the tegumental canal-system is developed and lost, a partially 
aquatic habit is retained—might perhaps involve the auditory and lateral- 
