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In the Abhandl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Munich, Dr. Victor Franz 

 publishes a most valuable paper on the bony fishes collected in 

 Japan by Haberer and Doflein. Many new species are described, 

 particularly from that richest of all collecting grounds, Sagami 

 Bay, and contains many notes of value in our study of the 

 Japanese fauna. 



In the Publ. Imp. Univ. Tokyo Mr. Shigeho Tanaka, lecturer 

 in the Science College, has begun a series of figures and descrip- 

 tions of the fishes of Japan. This work is extremely well done 

 and each species is illustrated by excellent plates. There is no 

 attempt at classification, each of the five parts now issued from 

 April 15, 1911, to March 10, 1912, containing species valuable 

 for his purpose, without attempt at orderly arrangement. 



In the Site. Acad, at Vienna, 1909, Dr. Victor Pietsehmann 

 describes a new species, Hemilepidotus megapterygius from 

 Japan. 



In the Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Professor J. 0. Snyder describes 

 many new species and genera from Japan and from the Riu Kiu 

 Islands. 



In the Ann. Nat. Mus. Wien. Dr. Victor Pietsehmann de- 

 scribes the variations of a frog fish in Japan, and also describes 

 two species of fishes from Formosa. 



In the Journal of the College of Agriculture Dr. K. Kish- 

 inouye describes new herring from the Bonin Islands, and also 

 gives an account of prehistoric fishing in Japan. 



In the Publ. Roy. Mus. Belgium at Brussels Professor Louis 

 Dollo has a very interesting discussion of what he calls Ethologic 

 Paleontology. 



In the American Journal of Science Dr. Charles R. Eastman 

 describes several new sharks from Solenhofen, in the Carnegie 

 Museum. 



In the Bull. Soc. Geol. France Dr. Maurice Leriche describes 

 cretaceous fishes from the basin of Paris. 



In another publication at Lille M. Leriche describes Stampian 

 fishes of the basin of Paris. 



In the Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1911, Dr. Eastman 

 gives a catalogue of the fossil fishes contained in that museum, 

 with a description and figure of many species. 



In the Mem. Mus. Roy. Belgique Professor Ramsey Traquair 

 gives an elaborate and valuable account of the fossil fishes of 

 the Weald from the Bernissart. 



In the Proc. Acad. Sci. of Naples Francesco Bassani gives an 



