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The genus Zalarges of Jordan and Williams is identified with 

 Vinciguerria. 



In the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology for 

 February, 1908, Mr. Samuel Garman describes a number of new 

 sharks and skates. The genus Aetomylseus is proposed for 

 Myliobatis maculatus. Baia kincaidii is described as new from 

 Friday Harbor, Puget Sound, and Chimcera barbouri from 

 Aomori, Japan. 



In the University of Colorado Studies, Volume 5, No. 3, Pro- 

 fessor T. D. A. Cockerell gives a list of the fishes of the Rocky 

 Mountains, with useful notes on geographical distribution, and 

 references to the fossil as well as to the living forms recorded 

 from that region. Brief keys are given, enabling local students 

 to identify specimens in hand. 



In the Zoologischen Anzeiger, Volume 32, 1908, Dr. Franz 

 and Dr. Stechow describe an interesting case of symbiosis be- 

 tween the fish, Minous adamsii, a form of scorpion-fish, and the 

 hydroid polyp Podocoryne from Sagami. 



In the Sitzungsberichte of the Academy of Vienna for 1908 

 Dr. Steindachner describes two new fishes from Brazil. 



In the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 

 Volume 16, 1908, George Wagner gives a useful list of the fishes 

 of Lake Pepin, forty-four species being recorded. 



In the Natuurkundig Tijdschrift of the Dutch East Indies, 

 Volume 67, 1908, Dr. P. N. van Kampen has an interesting 

 series of notes on the spear fishes found in Java. The common 

 species he identifies as Tetrapturus brevirostris. T. mazara of 

 Japan may be the same species. 



In the Bulletin of the Societe Nationale d'Acclimatatwn of 

 France Dr. Pellegrin gives a review of the fresh-water fishes of 

 Madagascar, with discussions of the economic value of each 



SP Among the papers left at the death of Professor Karl Ernst 

 von Baer is a biography of Cuvier which had never been pub- 

 lished and which is exceedingly interesting as a contemporary 

 account of one of the greatest of naturalists and written by one 

 of his ablest contemporaries. It is published m the Annales 

 des Sciences Naturelles, in Paris, by Professor Ludwig Stieda, 



° f ^thTArclivos do Museu Nacional of Brazil, Volume 4, 1907. 

 Dr. Alipio de Miranda Ribeiro continues his catalogue of the 



