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REPTILIA. 
BY 
A. W. E. O’StlAUaHNERSY-. 
GENERAL ANATOMY. 
In general reviews of the anatomical literature of 1877, K. Bardeleben 
gives an account of the various contributions to the Comparative Oste- 
ology of the Reptilia which appeared in that year, the notice of each 
work being a summary of the contents, and results arrived at. JB. Anat. 
Phys. vi. Abth. i. pp. 174-179. 
A similar condensed summary of memoirs, &c., bearing upon the 
Development of Reptilia and Batrachia is furnished by O. Hertwig, tom. 
cit. Abth. ii. pp. 204-210. 
R. Blanchard, in a general review of recent literature respecting Im- 
pregnation in the Animal series, treats of this subject with reference to 
the Batrachia, in J. Anat. Phys. xiv. pp. 739-743. 
KuprFFER, 0., & Beneckb, B. Die ersten Entwickelungsvorgange am 
Ei der Reptilien. Konigsberg : 1878. 
See, with reference to the above work, 
Balfour, F. The early Developmental Change in the Reptilian Ovum. 
Q. J. Micr. Sc. xviii. pp. 454 & 455. 
A short summary of the observations made by Kuppffer & Benecke on 
Lacerta agilis and Emys europcea, in which the embryonic changes were 
found to be closely alike. 
Braun, M. Das Urogenitalsystem der einheimischen Reptilien ent- 
wicklungsgeschichtlich und anatomisch bearbeitet. Arb. Inst. 
Wiirzb. iv. pp. 113-230. , 
The urogenital system studied in common indigenous reptiles, preceded 
by a historical account, and followed by a discussion of its relations with 
the other Vertebrates. The special descriptions of the segmental and 
sexual orgaUs will be referred to below under the heads of the different 
groups. 
