SPONGIIDA. 
2 ^pong. 
11. Selenka, E. Ueber einen Kieselschwamm von acbtstrahligem Ban, 
und iiber Entwickelung der Schwamm-knospen. Z. wiss. Zool. 
xxxiii. p. 467, pis. xxvii. & xxviii. 
12. SoLLAS, W. J. A. On Plectronella papillosa, a New Genus and 
Species of Echinonematous Sponge ; Ann. N. H. (5) iii. p. 17, 
pis. iv.-vii., woodcuts, b. On Pharetronema zingiberis, a New Genus 
and Species of Renierid Sponge ; tom. cit. p. 404, pi. xxx. 
13. . On Plocamia plena, a New Species of Echinonematous Sponge. 
Op. cit. iv. p. 44, pis. vi. & vii., woodcuts. 
Not seen by Recorder : — 
KRUKENBEiia, C. F. W. Verdauung der Spongien, Vergleich. physiolog. 
Studien an den Kiisten der Adria. Heidelberg : 1879, p. 64. 
. Tetronerythrin in Schwammen. Central bl. med. Wissensch. 1879, 
No. 40. 
Verrill, a. E. Preliminary Check-List of the Marine Invertehrata 
of the Atlantic Coast from Cape Cod to the Gulf of St. Ijawrence. 
New Haven : 1879. Also id. in P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879 : Porifera 
of the N.B, Coast of America (Includes more than 100 species of 
Sponges, with Cladorrhiza grandis, sp. n., from Nova Scotia). 
Classification. 
Keller (5), p. 348, considers the Sponges as true Ccelenterata, stand- 
ing nearest to the Corals in their histological characters. 
H. A. Nicholson, in the second edition of his “ Manual of Palaeonto- 
logy for the Use of Students” (Edinburgh and London), classes the 
Sponges as the last Order of the Rhizopoda. 
Faunistic Notices. 
A. Agassiz, in a report on American dredgings in the Caribbean Sea, 
reprinted in Pop. Sci. Rev. (n.s.) iii. p. 352, mentions a Hyalonema with, 
and another without, a Zoanthus attached, also a Dactylocalyx and a 
Euplectella and another form from this district. 
H. J. Carter, Spongiidce (in Zoology of Kerguelen Island), Phil. Tr. 
clxviii. p. 286, gives notes on 8 Holorrhaphidote and Calcareous Sponges 
from Kerguelen ; no new species ; several are identical with British 
species [infroL]. 
A. M. Norman, Note on Sponges dredged off Coast of Norway, J. of 
Conch. 1879, ii. p. 11 [iw/m]. 
T. Studer mentions Leucosoleniat sp. n., and Halichondria spp., 
Rossella sp., without descriptions, as found at Kerguelen Island ; Arch, 
f. Nat. xlv. p. 119. 
