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brilliant yellow, brown and green colors that are fast to soap, 

 acids and alkalies, and reasonably fast to sunlight. 



In the Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries of British 

 Columbia, 1908, Mr. John Pease Babcock, Commissioner, dis- 

 cusses the salmon problems of Puget Sound, and the Treaty of 

 April 11, 1908, under which the International Fisheries Com- 

 mission has been organized. 



In the Comp/is Pa ndus of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, 

 M. A. Cligny describes a new genus of Zeinae, called Parazen- 

 opsis, from Morocco. The species is Para-cnopsis argenteus. 



In the Annalrs dc la Station Aquicolc de Boulogne-sur-Mcr, 

 M. Cligny shows that the species called Harcngula latulus is 

 nothing but a common sprat, Clupea sprattus. The species 

 called Meletta phalerica and M. mediterranea are also identical 

 with the common sprat, the Mediterranean representatives of 

 which form a geographical race, distinguished from the races 

 in the north of Europe, having one less vertebra, and a few less 

 of the anterior rays. 



In the same Annales, M. Cligny discusses the genus of 

 Scarpa nida called II< 1 icol< nus. Tie shows that three distinct 

 species have been confounded under the name of maderensis. 

 Of these, the first, that of Cuvier, should disappear, being a 

 simple variety of Scarpa' na scrafa; the second, that of Lowe, 



In the same Annalrs, M. Cligny discusses in greater detail the 



In another paper, in connection with the aquarium at Amster- 



