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Hincks, T. On new British Hydroida. Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. vol. xviii. 1866, pp. 296-299. 
Kolliker, a. Knrzer Bericht iiber einige im Herbst 1864 an 
der West-Kiiste von Schottland angestellte vergleichend- 
anatomische Untersuchungen. Wiirzbnrger naturwiss. Zeit- 
schrift, Band v. 1864, pp. 232-250, Taf. 6. 
In a letter to Prof. Allen Thomson of Glasgow, Prof. Kolliker 
gives an account of certain invertebrate forms found by him 
on the west coast of Scotland, chiefly Hydrozoa and Ctenophora 
and some Annelids. He also refers to some peeuliarities in 
structure met with in the eonneetive tissue of the Ctenophora. 
Kowalewsky, a. Entwickelungsgesehichte der Rippenquallen. 
Mem. Aead. Jmp. St. Petersbourg, tom. x. no. 4, pp. i-viii, 
1-28, with 5 plates. 
In the introduction to this paper the author alludes to the 
opportunity he has had for prosecuting researches into the 
anatomy and development of the marine animals of the Bay of 
Naples, and promises to publish a series of papers in the Me- 
moires of the St. Petersburg Academy, On the development 
of some Holothuridse,^'’ On several genera of Annelida {Cha- 
topterus, Sternaspis, &c.), On several Mollusca and Crustacea,^^ 
and also announces his intention of publishing a translation into 
German of his inaugural thesis for the St. Petersburg Univer- 
sity, published in December 1865 in Russian, On the deve- 
lopment of Amphioxus lanceolatus.^^ The present paper treats 
of the development of some of the Ctenophora. 
Mobius, K. Ueber den Bau, den Meehanismus und die Ent- 
wicklung der Nesselkapseln einiger Polypen und Ouallen. 
Abhandl. naturwiss. Ver. Hamb. 1866, and separate reprint. 
Hamburg, 1866, pp. 1-24, with 2 plates. Abstract in 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xvii. 1866, p. 387. 
JMuller, Eritz. Ein Wort iiber die Gattung Hey'klotsia, J. E. 
Gray. Archiv fiir Naturg. xxx. pp. 352-358. 
Noskin, N. Ueber einen Generationswechsel bei Geryonia 
proboscidalis und die Larve von Rhizostoma aldrovandi. 
Bull. Acad. Imp. d. Scien. de St. Petersbourg, tom. viii. 
no. 3, 1865, pp. 214-218, with a plate. 
Philippi, R. A. Kurze Beschreibung einiger Chilenisehen 
Zoophyten. Archiv fur Naturgesch. 1866, pp. 118-120. 
Reichert, C. B. Ueber die contractile Substanz und den 
fcincrcn Bau dcr Campanularien,Sertularien und Ilydridcn. 
Reichert u. Du Bois-Reymond^s Archiv, 1866, pp. 638-643. 
Only a resume of this paper is here given. . . 
Verrill, a. E. Synopsis of the Polyps and Corals of the 
North Paeifie Exploring Expedition, under Commodore C. 
Ringgold and Captain John Rogers, U.S.N., from 1853 to 
