v. ; pisces. 
54 Pisces 
[1904] 
J. W. Langelaan, P. Ac. Amsterdam vii, pp. 36-40, figg., describes the 
trunk-myotome of Acanthias vulgaris . 
H. V. Neal, Mark Anniv. Yol. pp. 291-313, pi. xxii-xxiv, writes on the 
development of the spinal ventral nerves in Plagiostomes. 
J. Borcea, C.R. Ac. Sci. cxxxviii, pp. 1342 & 1343, remarks on the difference 
in structure and in secretory power between the anterior and the 
posterior kidney in male Plagiostomes. 
J. Borcea, op. cit. cxxxix, pp. 747-749, has a note on the development of 
the kidney and of Leydig’s gland in the Plagiostomes. 
J. Borcea, Bull. Soc. sci. med. Ouest France xiii, pp. 108-110, remarks on 
the male genital ducts of Centrina salviani. 
J. Borcea, Bull. Soc. zool. France xxix, pp. 138-140, records a case of 
anomalous conformation of the right oviduct in a Scyllium canicula. 
j. Borcea, C.R. Ac. Sci. cxxxviii, pp. 99-101, has investigated the gland 
secreting the envelop of the egg in Plagiostomes. 
Anna Brzevina, C.R. Soc. Biol, lvi, pp. 637-639, has a preliminary note 
on the lymphoid organ of the oesophagus in Plagiostomes. 
D. Carazzi, Monit. Zool. ital. xv, pp. 147 & 148, and Int. Monatsschr. 
Anat. xxi, pp. 1-18, fig., pi. i, has notes on the cardiac and oeso- 
phageal arterial circulation in Scyllium catulus. 
M. Cavali^, Trav. Lab. Arcachon vii, pp. 23-28, figg., remarks on the bile 
vesicle and its arterial circulation in various Plagiostomes. 
T. D’Evant, Anat. Anz. xxiv, pp. 490-492, remarks on rudiments of the 
amnion in Pristiurus and Scyllium. 
O. S. Strong, Biol. Bull, vi, p. 314, has a note on the cranial nerves of 
Acanthias. 
W. A. Logy, Mark Anniv. Yol. pp. 39-55, pis. v & vi, describes a new 
cranial nerve in Plagiostomes. 
0. Sund, Biol. Centrbl. xxiv, pp. 651-659, figg., writes on the development 
of the olfactory organ of Spinax niger. 
Ida H. Hyde, Amer. J. Physiol, x, pp. 236-258, figg., has made experi- 
ments to determine the localization of the respiratory centre in Raia. 
R. Quinton, C.R. Ac. Sci. cxxxix, pp. 995-997, and C.R. Soc. Biol, lvii, 
pp. 513 & 514, has made experiments on Plagiostomes to establish the 
relation between the saline concentration of the fish and that of the 
water in which it lives. 
J. Bernstein & A. Tschermak, SB. Ak. Berlin 1904, pp. 301-313, figg., 
have made thermodynamic experiments on the electric organ of 
Torpedo. 
M. Cavali6, Bibliog. anat. xiii, pp. 214-220, figg., writes on the nervous 
ramifications in the electric organ of Torpedo galvani. 
M. Cavali^, C.R. Soc. Biol, lvi, pp. 46 & 47, remarks on the chromoblasts 
of Torpedo galvani . 
E. Gley, C.R. Ac. Sci. cxxxviii, pp. 1547-1549, writes on the toxicity of 
the blood of Torpedo marmorata. 
A. Koch, Foldtani Kozl. xxxiv, pp. 190-203, & 260-274, fig., 1 pi., describes 
and figures Selachian teeth from the Miocene of Felsoeszterg.ily, 
Hungary. 
Carcharias velox , Gilb., and cerdale , Gilb., figured by Gilbert & Starks, 
Mem. Calif. Ac. iv, pi. i, fig. 3, and pi. ii, fig. 4 ; C. azureus, sp. n., 
Gilbert & Starks, t. c. p. 11, pi. ii, fig. 5, Panama; C. insularum 
and nesiotus, spp. nn., Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm, xxii, pp. 513 
& 514, pi. i, figg. 1 & 2, Hawaiian Ids.; C. cuvieri , Ag. (foss.), noticed 
and figured by Eastman, Bull. Mus. Harvard xlvi, p. 25, fig. ; C. 
collata and incidens , spp. nn. (foss.), Eastman, Maryland geol. Surv. 
1904, pp. 85 & 87, pi. xxxii, Miocene of Maryland. 
Galeocerdo davisi , n. n. for Notidanus marginal is, Davis, part, (foss.), 
Chapman & Pritchard, P. Soc. Victoria (2) xvii, p. 273 ; G. triqueter, 
