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In the Zoologisches Jahrbuch for 1905, is a paper by the late Pro- 

 fessor Franz Hilgendorf of BerUn on fishes from East Africa. 



Dr. Robert Collett, in the Forhandlinger Videnskahs Selskah of 

 Christiania for 1905, continues his monographic reviews of the fishes 

 of Norway. 



In the Pacific Monthly, Portland, April, 1906, Jordan describes in 

 popular fashion the trout and salmon of the Pacific, with drawings, 

 by Sekko Shimada. 



In the Popular Science Monthly for April, 1906, Jordan records 

 the occurrence in considerable numbers at Avalon in Southern Cali- 

 fornia, of the Japanese Hirenaga or Yellow-fin Albacore, Germo 

 macropferus. This large game fish, known by its citron yellow fin- 

 lets occurs also in Hawaii. 



In the Paris Bulletin d'Histoire Naturalle, Dr. Jacques Pellegrin 

 discusses the fishes of Lake Baikal, known as Cottocomephorus. 



In the Journal of Sciences of Lisbon, 1904, Dr. Balthazer Osorio 

 has a catalogue of the fishes of Cape Verde, and in the same journal 

 are various notes on other fishes. 



In the American Nafurnll.s-f (vol. .39, 1905), ^Nliss Julia Wortli- 

 ington discusses the Myxiiioid-^ or li;i«r-fislics, as siiidicd by licr ar tlic 

 Stanford Seaside Labonitoiy at Taiific (irovc Miss W ortliiii^'loii 



calls by the much inter tl uli more familiar iiainc ol' Bdcllostoma), 



regarding the nuiiilx-r of ^'ills as luiviiig barely s|)ccific importance. 

 The separation iiiK. irciu la iiiav he questionable, but there is as yet 



si)Oci(vs, an arraii^M incMit first suggested by Dr. Howard Avers. 



In The Hull, In, uj fhr American Museum, of Natural llisfoni, Mr. 

 L. Ilu^.-.k,.f p^e. a Naln.ble account of the structure of two .j.reies 

 of Dinirlulix^ \usWAmenran.}nun,nlnjSnn,rr, Dr.C \{. KaMnmn 



Artlnn.lin.. II- ,-o,.. far touanU pla.-in.- \\ luidu a ri 1' i!.u /'f !l!e 



largely on tli(> intiniat«^ rclationsliij) of tli(> dipnoan Xeo(vratodiis 

 to the Arthrodires on the one hand and to characteristic dipnoans 

 on the other, the living genus Neoceratodus being more primitiv(> 

 than either of the extinct types with which it is compared. Dr. 



