REPTILIA. 
BY 
A. W. E. O’Shaughnessy. 
Special branches of the anatomy of Reptiles have been carefully 
investigated during the year 1875, more particularly the nervous system, 
the study of which has been advanced by various memoirs referred to 
below. As valuable contributions to the anatomy of separate groups, 
Wiedersheim’s paper on Salamandrina perspicillata and Geotriton 
fuscus^ and that of Dr. Peters on CcBcilia (continued from last year), 
may be mentioned. Dr. GtUNTHER, in his account of the Land Tor- 
toises of the (xalapagos Islands, has made some very interesting generaliza- 
tions on the geographical distribution of these animals ; and J. de la 
Espada’s discovery of the tailed Batrachian, Urotropis platurus^ in .La 
Plata, is perhaps the most startling fact of the year in this department 
of zoology. 
ANATOMY. 
Calberla, E. Ueber die Endigungsweise der Nerven in den querges- 
treiften Muskeln der Amphibien. Z. wiss. Zool. xxiv. p. 164 (also 
separately, Leipzig : 1874). 
Cartier, O. Studien iiber den feineren Bau der Haut bei den Reptilien. 
Verb. Ges. Wiirzb. v. pp. 192-212, figs. 1-10. 
CoLOSANTi, G. Untersuchungen fiber die Durchschneidung des Nervus 
“ olfactarius bei Froschen. Arch. Anat. Phys. 1875, pp. 469-476. 
Eimer, T. Ueber den Bau und die Bewegung der Samenfaden : 3 
bei den Amphibien ; 4 bei den Reptilien. Verb. Ges. Wfirzb. vi. 
pp. 104 & 105. 
Gulliver, G. On the red blood corpuscles in Batrachia and Reptilia. 
P. Z. S. 1875, p. 480. 
Huizinga, — . Untersuchungen fiber die Innervation der Gefasse in 
der Schwimmhaute des Frosches. Arch. ges. Phys. xi. pp. 207-221. 
Malbranc, M. Von der Seitenlinie und ihren Sinnesorganen bei Am- 
phibien. Z. wiss. Zool. xxvi. pp. 24-86, pis. i.-iv. 
