CIOOTOl'ODA. 
Venn, 3 
12. . Anatomische Studien an Rhynchelmis limosclla, Iloffm. 
{Euaxes filirostris, Grube). Tom. cit. pp. 332-361, pis, xxi.-xxiv. 
13. . Ueber Phreatothrix, eine ueue Gatfcung der Limicolen (ein Bei- 
trag zur Brunnenfauna von Prag). Tom. cit, pp. 641-554, pis. xxxix. 
Distribution^ &c. 
A paper by A. F. Marion, “ Draguages profouds au large de Mar- 
seille ’’ (Rev. Montp. iv.) is only known to the Recorder from a note in 
J. Zool. V. p. 279. Another paper by the same author, “ Sur les Ann4- 
lides de Marseille,” Montpellier (12 pp., 1 pi.), also remained unknown 
to the Recorder. The “ Bulletin of the United States National Museum,” 
No. 3, contains “ Contributions to the Natural History of Kerguelen 
Island,” by J. H. Kidder {Annelida^ Echinoderms, and Anthozoa, hy 
A. E. Verrill). “Report on the dredgings in the region of St. 
George’s Bank [in America] in 1872,” by S. J. Smith & O. Harder 
(Tr. Conn. Ac. hi. 1, pp. 1-57) (^Annelida., Turhellaria, Radiata\ the 
names of the species described or figured are given below). 
McIntosh has reported (P. R. Soc. xxv. pp. 215-222) upon the 
Annulata dredged by the “Valorous” expedition in Davis Strait 
and the North Atlantic, to a depth of 1785 fathoms ; a few new 
genera and species are recorded. Some remarks on the deep sea 
Annulata captured during the first part of the cruise of the “ Chal- 
lenger,” are contained in R. v. Willemoes-Suhm’s “ Report,” P. R. Soc. 
xxiv. The “ Erster Jahresbericht der Zoologischen Station in Neapel ” 
(Leipzig: 1876) contains observations on the season of appearance and of 
propagation of the Vermes, Echinoderms, and Coelenterata observed at 
the zoological station at Naples. 
Vejdowsky (10) enumerates 17 Oligoch(cta limicola and 10 0. terri- 
cola from Bohemia. 
Anatomy, Physiology, &c. 
In Semper’s elaborate treatise (9) on the homologies and phylo- 
genetic relations of Vertehrata and Annulata, in the rich details whereof 
(critical, investigatory, and speculative) it lies beyond the scope of this 
record to indulge, the chapter on gemmation in Naids {N. prohoscidea, 
harhata, Chcetogaster) (1. c. ii. pp. 161-260) may be noticed as having a 
direct bearing upon the ontogeny of Chcetopoda. The author’s views of 
the “unity of organic composition,” at least of the Vertehrata, Arthro- 
poda, and Vermes, find their expression in his regarding the “ Trocho- 
sphcera’' (i.e., the typical larva of the marine chastopodous Annulata) as 
the starting-point of the evolution of these great divisions of the 
animal kingdom, just as the “ Gastraea” is regarded as the starting-point 
of development of all “ Metazoa ” by Hiickol. Semper’s argument, that 
the proboscis orifice of the Nemertea and the “mouth’’ of the other 
Turhellaria should be homologized with the mouth of Vertehrata, and 
the true mouth of Nemertea on the other hand with the mouth of the 
Annulata, ought also to be pointed out as deserving more than a passing 
