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In the Annals of the Museum of Vienna, XXI, 1906, Dr. 

 Viktor Pietschmann has a valuable record of the fishes collected 

 in a voyage to Iceland, and another to Morocco. 



In Records of the Australian Museum, VI, 1907. Allan R. 

 McCulloch describes the fishes and crustaceans taken by the 

 Woy Woy, in deep waters of the Tasman Sea. The most notable 

 of the new species is the sculpin-like fish. Hoplichthys haswelli. 



In the Journal of the Linnaan Society of London, Mr. A. D. 

 Darbishire describes the water current in the spiracle of sharks. 



In the Sitzber. of the same museum, Vienna, Vol. 116, 1907, 

 Dr. Viktor Pietschmann describes new sharks from Japan, Cen- 

 trophorus steindachneri and Etmopterus frontimaculatus. 



The last species was also taken by Jordan and Snyder in 

 Sagami Bay, in company with Etmoptrms lucifer. It is one 

 of the smallest of sharks, black, with a milk-white spot on the 

 top of the head. 



In the Proc. Zool. Soc., London (1907), Mr. Regan redescribes 

 Ydifcr hypscloptcrus, a Japanese species not seen in the last 

 fifty years, from three specimens in the British Museum. A 

 second species from northern Australia is described as Velifcr 

 m ultiradiatus. 



In another paper Mr. Regan brings together the aberrant 

 genera Lampris, Velifer, Trachypterus and Lophotes. framing 

 of these a new suborder Allotriognathi. These fishes, like the 

 Berycoids have an orbitosphenoid, but no mesocoracoid bone. 



Mr. Regan thinks that these fishes are derived from the bery- 

 coids, and the latter from forms like the extinct Ctenothrissa and 

 Pscudobn-yx. These observations of Mr. Regan are very inter- 

 esting and his conclusions seem reasonable. He notes that 

 Semiophorus is allied to Platax and not to Lampris. 



In "Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Zoologischen Expedi- 

 tion nach dem Baikal-See" (1907), Dr. Leo Berg discusses the 

 sculpin-like fishes of Lake Baikal, the Cottidre, Cottocomephorid:e 

 and Comephoridae. The excellent monograph is preceded by a 

 careful account, fortunately in German not Russian, of the 

 osteology of these fishes. Of the 34 species of fishes found in 

 Lake Baikal 17 are endemic, or developed in the lake, not occur- 

 ring elsewhere. Of these, two genera, Comephorus and Cotto- 

 comephorus, each constitutes a distinct family. Other genera 



