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In the Christiana Videnskabs-Selskabs VorkandHnger iox 1902 and 

 1903 (the last volume being published from the Fridtjof Nansen 

 fund) Dr. Robert CoUett gives additional records of additions to the 

 fish fauna of Norway. These admirable notes are of great value to 

 the student of the fishes of Northern Europe, as well as of Northern 

 regions generally. 



Jordan and Starks continue in the Proceedings of the U. S. National 

 Museum (XXVII, 1904) their monographic accounts of the fishes of 

 Japan. 



In the review of the Scorpaenidae 52 species are described as 

 Japanese, 14 of these being new. These are arranged in 23 genera, 

 the following being new : Thysanichthys, Sebastiscus, Lythrichthys, 

 Ebosia, Decterias, Inimicus, Ocosia, Erisphex. The new species and 

 most of the new genera are figured. 



The Cottidai of Japan are also described in detail by the same 

 authors. In these fishes as in the Scorpa^nidaj, of which the Cottidae 

 are the Arctic descendants, the waters are particularly rich. Fifty- 

 seven species are described, 19 being new. These are arranged m 40 

 genera, the new genera being Stlengis, Schmidtia, later called 

 Schmidtina, the name Schmidtia being preoccupied. Daruma, 

 Ricuzenius, Rheopresbe, Ainocottus, Crossias, Elaphichthys, Alcich- 

 thys, Furcina, Ocynectes, Bero, Vellitor. 



Similar reviews cover the less numerous species of the families of 

 Agonidae and Hexagrammida;. 



The two species of white Chimaera {Chimcera phantasma and 

 Chitmera mitsukurii) found in Japanese waters are described and 

 figured by Jordan and Snyder. 



PALEONTOLOGY. 



Eastman's Translation of Zittel, VoL II.^— Since the public 

 tion of the first volume of Dr. Eastman's translation of Zitte 

 Gnindziige der Fa/ceontologie, English speaking students have await 

 with keen interest the appearance of the second volume, and it m 



1 von Zittel, Karl A. Text-Book 0/ Fcil.f.mtoloffy. Vol. II. Translated a 

 edited by Charles R. Eastman. London and New York, MacmiUan, 1902. 8 

 283 pp., 373 figs- 



