No. 478] NOTES AND LITERATURE 



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It is hardly necessary to state that in so far as views on evolution 

 are expressed they are essentially de Vriesian and with the acceptance 

 of the validity of de Vries's conclusions concerning discontinuity, there 

 is the suggestion of the physico-chemical nature of discontinuity in 

 evolutionary transformations. 



The Columbia University Biological Series is so familiar to natural- 

 ists that comment upon the attractiveness of the volume is quite super- 

 fluous and we may simply say that the general scientific public is to 

 be congratulated on having in a condensed form the point of view and 

 chief results of the school of biologists of which Professor Loeb is our 

 best known advocate. 



J. A. Harris 



Caphue of the Salamander, Aiit(i( 

 — One of the pomts of interest (o 

 extremely limited range. The t;ik 

 in Ivos Angeles, Cal., a locality at ; 

 has heretofore been considered tin 

 of sufficient importance, thereto i c, t 



In a previous paper on the spci i 

 (Amer. Nat., vol. 33, pp. 691-70 1. 

 tribution of the genus as follows: '• 

 confined, according to our ])ics(m 

 America and almost entirely to ( ;il 

 bull. 34) states that "no species h:i> 

 fic coast region." He describes tli 

 specimens in the U. S. National Mn 



