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INSECT! 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Br E. 0 . Rye, P.Z.S., M.E.S. 
Bertkau, P. Bericht liber die wissenscliaftlichen Leistungen auf dem 
Gebiete der Arthropoden wahrend der Jahre 1875 und 1876 (Zweite 
Halfte). Arch. f. Nat. xliii. (2) pp. 221-396. 
Refers to all orders but Coleoptcra. 
Ganin, M. [Materials for a Knowledge of the Post-embryonal Develop- 
ment of Insects]. Warsaw : 1876, 4to, pp. 76, 4 pis. 
Extracted from the Transactions of the fifth meeting of Russian 
Naturalists in Warsaw ; Section of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. 
Noticed at some length, with translation of the author’s conclusions, in 
Am. Nat. xi. pp. 423-430. The “conclusions” occupy four closely- 
printed 8vo pages, and admit of no abstract — so skilled a morphologist as 
Dr. Packard even abstaining from anything but reproduction of them. 
Goss, H. The Insect Fauna of the Recent aud Tertiary Periods. 
London ; 1877, 8vo, pp. 65. 
The first of three proposed papers on fossil Insects, and the British and 
foreign formations iu which insect-remains have been detected, reprinted 
from the Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, v. (No. 6). A useful 
collection of scattered references, with critical and other comments, 
followed by lists of the insect-remains discovered in formations of the 
post-tertiary and tertiary periods, arranged by strata. 
Grarer, Vitus.- Die Insekten. I. Theil; Der Organismus der Insekten. 
Miinchen : 1877, sm. 8vo, pp. 403, 200 woodcuts. 
Originally published in “ Die Naturkrafte,” vol. xxi. The comparative 
and special anatomy and physiology of Insects is discussed in twelve 
chapters. The second part, “ Vergleichende Lebens- und Entwickelung! 
geschichte der Insekten ” has also appeared in “ Naturkriifte,” vol. xxii. 
MOller, H. Fertilization of Flowers by Insects. Nature, xv. 
pp. 317-319, 473-475, figs. 94-115, xvi. p. 265, & pp. 507-509, 
figs. 116-130. 
Refer to Gentiana Salvia. See also letter from Fritz Muller, with 
introduction by 0. Darwin, op. cit. xvii. p. 78; also T. Meehan, infra, 
p. 5. 
1877. [vol. XIV.] 
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