16 Kept. IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
G. Ruge, Gegenbaur Festschrift, iii, pp. 284-339, figg., writes on the 
peripheral area of the facial nerve in Reptiles and Batrachians. 
C. Poli, Arch. mikr. Anat. xlviii, pp. 644-686, pis. xxxii & xxxiii, writes on 
the development of the auditory capsule. 
C. Delezenne, C.R. Soc. Biol. (10) iv, pp. 462 & 463, and 489 & 490, 
has made experiments on the coagulation of the blood in Reptiles and 
Batrachians. 
L. Vaillant has prepared a guide to the Reptile menagerie in the Paris 
Museum (Paris: 1897, 8vo.). 
G. C. Bateman’s “Vivarium” (London : 1897, 8vo.) contains information 
as to the Reptiles and Batrachians suitable as pets. 
F. Werner, Zool. Garten, xxxviii, pp. 86-95, has notes on the habits of 
various Reptiles and Batrachians in confinement. 
REPTILIA. 
A. Milani, Zool. Jahrb. Anat. x, pp. 93-156, figg., pis. ix-xii, brings 
out the second part of his contributions to the knowledge of the 
Reptilian lung, this part dealing with the Chelonians and Crocodiles. 
L. Gianelli & E. Giacomini investigate the histology of the digestive 
canal of Reptiles. Pr.-verb. Acc. Fisiocr. Siena, ccv, pp. 43-49, 75-84, 
105-113, and Mon. Zool. ital. viii, pp. 14-16. 
H. L. Bruner, Anat. Anz. xiii, pp. 217 & 218, describes new nasal muscles 
in Reptiles. 
F. K. Studnicka, Jena. Zeitschr. xxxi, pp. 20-23, studies the structure of 
the optic nerves in the principal groups of Reptiles. 
G. Manga publishes French abstracts of his physiological experiments on 
starvation in Lizards and Tortoises. Arch. ital. Biol, xxvii, pp. 83- 
102 . 
W. G. Ridewood, Nat. Sci. xi, pp. 190-196, figg., publishes restorations 
of some fossil Reptiles. 
SQUAMATA. 
E. Bugnion, Arch. Sci. Nat. (4) iv, pp. 489 & 490, remarks on the develop- 
ment of the epiphysis and parietal organ in Lizards and Snakes. 
LACERTILIA. 
F. Legge publishes a pamphlet (Cagliari : 1896, 8vo.) on the morphology 
of the mandible and on the teeth of Chalcides ocellatus. 
N. Frederic:, Boll. Soc. Napoli, x, pp. 179-192, pi. v, writes on tho 
urogenital apparatus of Chalcides ocellatus , Forsk. 
K. Tellyesniczky, Math, naturw. Ber. Ungarn, xiii, pp. 303-342, figg., 
writes on the structure of the male genital glands in Lizards. 
R. Monti, Boll, scient. xix, pp. 99-106, pi. — , writes on the nervous plexus 
in the digestive canal of Lacertilia. 
D. Bertelli, Atti Soc. Tosc. Mem. xv, pp. 120-138, pi. ii, investigates 
the development of the diaphragm in Lacerta viridis. 
L. Will, Arch. Ver. Mecklenb. 1, pp. 169-189, figg. pis. v & vi, writes on 
tho cleavage of the egg in Tarentola and Lacerta. 
F. Kopsch, Mt. Ak. Berlin, 1897, pp. 423-427, figg., writes on a case of 
double gastrula in Lacerta agilis. 
