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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
IIoLLARD, H. Recherclies sur la structure de Tencepliale des 
poissons et sur la^igriification liomologique de ses differentes 
parties. Robin,, Journ. Anat. et Physiol. 1866^ iii. pp. 280- 
335, with four plates. 
. Developpement de Pencephale des Poissons. Nouvelles 
recherches. Compt. Rend. 1806j Mars 26, pp. 747-748. 
Hyrtl, J. Ueher den Seitencanal von Lota. Sitzgsber. Ak. 
Wiss. Wien, I860, liii. pp. 551-556, with a plate. [On 
I the lateral canal of Lota.'\ 
Kner, R. Ueher das Vorkommen der Schwimmblase und die 
Anordnung der Sexual-Organe bei aal-ahnlichen Pischen. 
Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien (Decbr. 14, 1865), lii. 1866, 
pp. 648-653. [On the occurrence of an air-bladder and 
the arrangement of the sexual organs in eel-like fishes] . 
Kovalevsky — . Le developpement de V Amphioxus lanceolatus. 
Bibl. Univ. 1866, Oct., Bull. Sc. pp. 193-195. 
Melnikow, N. Ueber die Verbreitungsweise der Gefasse in 
den Hauten des Darmkanals der Lota vulgaris. Reich. & 
Du Bois R. Archiv f. Anat. etc. 1866, pp. 587-591, with a 
plate. [On the distribution of vessels in the membranes of 
the intestinal tract of L. u.] 
Monoyer, P. Contribution h Petude de Pequilibre et de la lo- 
comotion chez les Poissons. Compt. Rend. 1866, Avril 9, 
pp. 847-850. Or, Recherches experimentales sur Pequilibre 
et la locomotion chez les poissons. Ann. Sc. Nat. vi. 1866, 
pp. 5-15. 
Plateau, P. Sur la vision des Poissons et des Amphibiens. 
Compt. Rend. 1866, Sept. 17, pp. 499-500. (Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist, xviii. pp. 469-473.) 
Ransom, W. H. Observations on the Ovum of Osseous Pishes. 
Proc. Roy. Soc. 1866, pp. 226-228 (abstract). 
Trois, P., e Perugia, A. Sui linfatici del cuore del Mola 
aspera nota. Atti R. 1st. Ven. Sc. Lett, ed Art. xii. 1866- 
67, jip. 5-8, with a plate. 
Trois, P. SulP intima struttura delle villosita uterine dclP 
Acanthias vulgaris sotto il punto di vista zootomico-fisio- 
logico osservazioni. Ibid. pp. 171-176, with a plate. 
General Remarks and Pauna2. 
Prof. Brandt’s “ Remarks on the classification of tlio colil-blooilcd Ver- 
tebrates ” were noticed in last year’s ^ Record,’ p. 178, and have now appeared 
in Mem. Ac. Sc. St. Petersb. ix. no. 8 (pp. 80). 
• Prof. PoEY has collected various notices on fishes, the flesh of which is 
said to have produced more or less serious effects in those who partook of it, 
