536 
PROTOZOA. 
Fossil Sponges and Allied Forms. 
H. A. Nicuoi.son : On the affinities of the genus Stromatopora^ with 
descriptions of two new species ; Ann. N. H. (4) xiii. pp. 4-14 (the 
evidence is, according to the author, decidedly in favour of Stroma- 
topora being referable to the Calcispongia). E. C. Davey : The Sponge- 
gravel beds at Coxwell, near Faringdon ; a paper contributed to the 
Newbury Field Club, 1874, 8vo, 14 pp., 18 photographs of fossils ; 
abstract, Geol. Mag. (2) i. p. 228 (16 species of Sponges^ described). 
Devalque’s paper on. Astrceospongium reprinted, Z. Zool. ii. pp. 292-294. 
Meyer, “ Silurische Schwamme und deren eigenthiimliche Verbreitung,’' 
Z. geol. Ges. xxvi. pp. 41-58 {cf. DAMES,Ueber Spongien von Gotland, tom. 
cit. pp. 613 & 614). 
INFUSOllIA. 
1. Claus, C. Bemerkungen zur Lehre von der Einzelligkeit der Infu- 
sorien. Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxiv. pp. 25-36. 
2. Greepf, R. Ueber den Bau der Vorticellen. Entgegnung anHrn. Dr. 
Everts in Haag. SB. Ges. Marb. 1874, pp. 5-20. 
3. Lank ESTER, E. R. Torqnatella typica, a new type of Infusoria^ 
allied to the Ciliata. Q. J. Micr. Sci. xiv. pp. 272-274, pi. xii. 
figs. 1-5. 
Body oblong, mobile, without cilia, but provided anteriorly with a 
large, plicate, vibrating collar, surrounding also the mouth, which is 
overhung by a capitular prominence or upper lip ; might form a new 
division, Calycata, of the Infusoi'ia stomatoda. Naples (not parasitic). 
4. Leidy, J. Notice of some fresh-water Infusoria. P. Ac. Philad. 
1874, p. 140 {Cothurnia, Dendrosomd). 
Short records of W. H. Dallinger & J. Drysdale’s continued re- 
searches into the life-history of Monads are given, Q. J. Micr. Sci. xiv 
pp. 102 & 103, 201 & 202. A. Humbert has reported on several papers 
on Infusoria, by Hackel, Butschli, Everts, and others. Arch. Sci. nat. 
xlix. pp. 67-74 (J. Zool. iii. pp. 215-219), and on Balbiani’s treatise on 
Didimum, 1. c. pp. 159-62. 
RHIZOPODA. 
1. Greefp, R. Ueber Radiolarien und radiolarienartige Rhizopoden des 
siissen Wassers. Arch. mikr. Anat. xi. pp. 1-32, pis. i. & ii. 
2. Hertwig, R. Ueber Microgromia socialis, eine Colonie bildende 
Monothalamie des siissen Wassers. Op. cit. x. Supplementheft, 
pp. 1-34, pi. i. 
3. & Lesser, E. Ueber Rhizopoden und denselben nahestehenden 
Organismen. L. c. pp. 35-243, pis. iii.-v. 
