GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Pisces 15 
II. — GENERAL SUBJECT. 
B. Dean publishes a text book entitled, “ Fishes, Living and Fossil ” ; 
New York : 1895, 8vo. 
E. Haeckel, in his “ Systematische Phylogenie der Wirbelthiere,’* 
reviews the structural characters of Fishes, which fall into 4 Classes : 
A crania, Cyclostoma , Pisces , Dipneusta. A large number of new names 
for systematic divisions are proposed, further reference to which need 
not be made in this Record. 
On the origin of Vertebrates ; Goette, Verh. Deutsch, Zool. Ges. v, 
pp. 12-30. 
L. Dollo, Bull. Soc. Beige Geol. ix, Mem. pp. 79-128, in dealing with 
the phylogeny of the Dipnoi, discusses the value of various morphological 
characters used in the classification of Fishes. 
On the labial cartilages of Fishes, regarded as homologous with the 
cirri of Amphioxus ; Pollard, Verh. Anat. Ges. ix, pp. 232-235, figg. i 
the same, Zool. Jahrb. Anat. viii, pp. 379-424, pis. xxiv & Xxv, writes on 
the oral cirri of Siluroids and the origin of the head in Vertebrates. 
T. W. Bridge, P. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, pp. 307-310, pi. xxii, 
compares certain points in the cranial osteology of Osteoglossum and 
Lepidosteus . 
C. Gegenraur, Morphol. Jahrb. xxiii, pp. 1-20, figg., Shows that tho 
bone termed claricula in Fishes is not homologous with that of higher 
Vertebrates, which is represented by the so-called infracldviculd . The 
two bones are now called clavicula and cleithrum . 
E. GOppert, Morphol. Jahrb. xxiii, pp. 145-217, figg., pis. xiii-xvi, 
deals with the morphology of the ribs of Fishes. 
F. Maurer deals with the epidermis and its productions oU pp. 1-123 
of his work “ Die Epidermis” (Leipzig : 1895). 
On the nerves of the chromatophores ; Ebertii & Bunge, Arch. mikr. 
Anat. xlvi, pp. 370-378, pis. xvii & xviii. 
On the nerves of the alimentary canal ; R. Monti, Rend. 1st. Lom- 
bardo (2) xxviii, pp. 688-695. — French translation in Arch. ital. Biol, 
xxiv, pp. 188-195. 
On an arrangement of the retinal cells in the eyes of Fishes, partially 
simulating compound eyes ; J. A. Ryder, P. Ac. Philad. 1895, pp. 161- 
166, figg. 
On rudimentary eyes in Fishes ; C. Kohl, Bibl. Zool. v, pp. 181-274. 
H. Klaatsch, Morphol. Jahrb. xxii, pp. 514-560, pis. xxii & xxiii, 
writes on the phylogeny and transformations of the notochord. 
On the development of the occipital region ; A. Severtzoff, Bull. 
Soc. Moscou, 1895, pp. 186-284, pis. iv & v. 
\V. A. Locy, J. Morphol. xi, pp. 497-594, figg., pis, xxvi-xxx, writes 
on metamerism and sense-organs of the head. 
