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In the Ann. Mus. Zool. Univ. Napoli, J. Pellegrin describes 

 fishes in the Museum of Naples, mostly obtained by an expedition 

 to the Red Sea. 



In the Report of the British Antarctic Expedition of Shackle- 

 ton, Mr. Edgar R. Waite describes the fishes taken in the Ant- 

 arctic, four species only, all of the family of Nototheniidae. 



In the Bull. Americ. Mus. Nat. Hist., L. Hussakof describes 

 eight Chimaeroids of the Cretaceous of North America. 



In the Ann. X. Y. Acad. Sci., R. D. O. Johnson describes an 

 extraordinary climbing catfish, Arges marmoratus, from Co- 

 lombia. In connection with this, Dr. Bashford Dean remarks 

 that "it is hardly to the credit of our cloth that these observa- 

 tions on fishes should be first made by a mining engineer." 



In the Zoologischen Anzciger, 1912, Dr. L. F. de Beaufort de- 

 scribes new Gobies from Ceram and Waigeu. 



In the Zool. Jahrb., L. S. Berg describes the origin of the 

 fishes of the basin of the river Amur. 



Under the title of "Faune de la Russie," Dr. Berg describes 

 and catalogues the fishes of Russia, a valuable paper, accom- 

 panied by good descriptions, which unfortunately for most of 

 us are mainly in Russian. 



In the Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, 1912, Dr. Pelligrin enu- 

 merates fishes from the New Hebrides with the description of 

 Callechelys guichenoti, hitherto imperfectly known. 



In the Bull. Inst. Oceanog. of the Prince of Monaco, Dr. Zug- 

 mayer describes numerous deep-sea fishes obtained by the prince. 



In the Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, 1912, Dr. Louis Fage de- 

 scribes a collection of fishes from the coast of Morocco. 



LTnder the head of "Figures and Descriptions of the Fishes of 

 Japan," Mr. Shigeho Tanaka, lecturer in the Imperial Univer- 

 sity, continues his series of excellent descriptions and figures of 

 Japanese fishes, the text being both in Japanese and in English. 

 Of this series ten fascicules have been published. When it is fin- 

 ished it will give a most complete and valuable account of the 

 fishes of Japan. No attempt is made to classify these species, 

 one being taken up after another in the order which the author 

 finds most convenient, a matter of necessity under the circum- 

 stances of publication. 



In the Journal Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, H. Ohshima de- 

 scribes in detail the luminous organs of various fishes, among 

 them the small deep-water sharks of the coast of Japan. 



