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of observing fishes, with a ready means of obtaining information. The 
article “ Ichthyology ” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the only pub- 
lication which had partly satisfied such requirements. 
[Gunther, A.]. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ 
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82 pp., 32 pis. 
This large contribution is divided in four parts: 1, the Fish Fauna of 
the shores of the Atlantic ; 2, that of the Antarctic and of shores 
abutting on it ; 3, that of the temperate zone of the South Pacific ; 
4, that of the tropical zone of the South Pacific. The number of new 
species is 94. 
Hoffman, C. K. Vorlaufige Mittheilung zur Ontogenie der Knochen- 
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Lutken, C. Spolia Atlantica. Bidrag til Kundskab om Formforand- 
ringer hos Fiske under deres Vcext og Udvikling, soerligt hos nogle 
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pis. i.-v. (with summary in French). 
An extensive and very useful contribution to the knowledge of the 
changes of form which the fishes, chiefly those of the Atlantic, undergo 
during their growth. 
j Nussbaum, M. Zur Differenzirung des Geschlechts im Tbierreich. 
{ Arch. mikr. Anat. xviii. pp. 1-121, pis. i.-iv. 
This work contains details upon sexual organs in Fishes. 
Rabl-Ruckiiard, H. Das gegenseitige Yerhaltniss der Chorda, Hypo^ 
physis und des mittlereu Schadelbalkens bei Haifisch Embryonen, 
nebst Bemerkungen fiber die Deutung der einzelnen Theile des 
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Sappey, P. 0. Etudes sur I’appareil mucipare et sur le systeme lym- 
phatique des Poissons. Paris : 1880, fo., 64 pp., 12 pis. 
SoLGER, B. Neue Untersuch ungen zur Anatomic der Seitenorgane der 
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; Schneider, A. Ueber die Nerven von Amphioxus, AmmocoeteSf und 
Petromyzon. Zool. Anz. 1880, p. 330. 
WiEDERSHEiM, R. Die spinalartigen Hinuerven von Ammoccetes uud 
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A reply to Schneider^s note on the subject. 
PAUN^. 
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