FOSSIL RHJZOPODAj FLAGELLATA AND MONADS. Prot, 17 
Cycloclypeus, Carpenter. Recharacterized by K. Martin, Tertiar- 
schichten auf Java, Leyden, 1879-80, p. 150. 
Orbitoides, D’Orbigny. Recharacterized ; id. 1. c. p. 158 ; it is distinct 
from Cycloclypeus in having no intermediate skeleton. 
Eozoon. Biitschli (3) gives a summary of the discussion relating -to 
this question, statiog that he is adverse to the theory of its organic 
origin. 
Stromatoporida. Biitschli, (3) p. 221, gives a summary of the researches 
relating to these organisms, stating his opinion that no satisfactory conclu- 
sion has yet been arrived at as to their affinities. 
Stromatopora and Syringostroma. A list of species from Corniferous 
Limestone of Ohio given by E. Orton, Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, iii. pt. 1, 
p. G20. 
Stromatopora laminosa^ Meneghini, sp. n., Atti Ac. Rom. (3) Mem. sci. 
fis. V. p. 217, plate, fig. 8, Silurian of Sardinia. 
FLAGELLATA AND MONADS. 
11. ViGNAL, W. Recherches histologiques et physiologiques sur les 
Noctiluques (Noctiluca miliaris, Suriray). Trav. Lab. hist. Coll. 
France, 1877-78, p. 197, pis. x. & xi. 
To a great extent identical with the paper by the same author cited 
in Zool. Rec. xv. 
Eyffertii. Schizophyten und Flagellaten, Supplement-Heft zu der 
Systemat. Naturgesch. der microscop. Siisswasserbewohner. Bruns- 
wick, 1879. 
W. SCHMANKEWITSCH. Ueber die Beziehungen einiger farbloser 
Flagellaten zur den Algen und Pilzen. (Odessa; 1879; Neuruss. Natur- 
forscher Ges. vi.) [in Russian ; said to be an enlargement of his paper in 
Zool. Anz. i. p. 91]. 
L. Maggi. Tassonomia e Corologia dei Cilioflagellati. Boll, scient. 
ii. p. 7. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
Systematic descriptions, with synonyms, are given of the Orders, 
Families, Genera, and Species of the Flagellate Infusoria by Kent (1). 
Many of the species are figured ; the new genera and species alone are 
noticed below ; for Classification, vide supra, General Subject. 
G. C. Wallich, Pop. Sci. Rev. iv. pi. iv. under the heading, “ The 
Threshold of Evolution,” endeavours to disprove the primordial condition 
attributed by Hackel to the Monera, by contesting the homogeneity and 
other alleged properties of their substance and the simplicity of their 
structure, from that author’s own admissions. 
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