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THE AMEBIC AN NATURALIST [Vol.XLIV 



cusses a number of rows of valves in the arterial bulb in the 

 heart in different fishes. In most bony fishes the arterial bulb 

 contains a single tier of valves. In Albula, there are two tiers; 

 in Elops one tier; in Pterothrissus two tiers. 



In the Philippine Journal of Sciences, Volume 4, 1909, Mr. 

 Alvin Seale discusses very fully the fishery resources of the 

 Philippine Islands, with colored plates of a number of the more 

 valuable species. 



In the same Journal, Mr. Scale discusses the sponge fisheries 

 of the Philippine Islands, with numerous plates. 



In the Biological Bulletin, Mr. H. H. Newman, of the Uni- 

 versity of Texas, discusses hermaphroditism in fishes, a bisexual 

 specimen of Fnnduhis being considered, this being a species in 

 which the females are very differently marked from the males. 



In the same Bulletin, Mr. Newman discusses the contact 

 organs, fine papillae found on the scales and fins in certain fishes. 

 These have been studied by him in species of FundlUus at Woods 

 Hole. These contact organs are supposed to give the fish greater 

 sensitiveness, and also, perhaps, to increase the frictional surface 

 of the animal. 



In the Journal of the Colli < </< of Science in the Imperial Uni- 

 versity of Tokyo, 11)08, Mr. Shigeho Tauaka describes six species 

 new to science from the East Coast of Japan. 



In the same Journal, 1909, Mr. Tanaka describes eleven new 

 species of Japanese fishes, one of them being a new genus of 

 Chim;eras called . 1 //// lioch inutra. This form has a snout pro- 

 duced in a long spatula, as in Rhinochimcera. It adds one more 

 to the dozen or so extraordinary forms of sharks, skates and 

 chimeras which have been obtained within the last ten years in 

 the Bay of Sagami. 



This specimen was caught, probably, with a hook, in a depth 

 of four hundred fathoms, by the remarkable collector employed 

 at the Seaside Laboratory at Misaki, Kuma Aoki. This un^ 

 lettered fisherman, who can not read even his own language, is 

 in his way one of the cleverest ichthyologists in Japan. 



In the Annotationes Zoologica Japonenset, Volume 7, 1909, 

 Mr. Tanaka discusses a collection of fishes from the interior 

 province of Shinano. 



In the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 

 1909, Jordan and Richardson give a review of the sea bass, or 

 Serranida?, inhabiting the waters of Japan, with numerous fig- 

 ures, and the description of one new species. When this series 



