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of the C/ioniostomatidce ” (77). It is beautifully illustrated by copper plates, 
and is in every way a valuable addition to the literature of Crustacea. 
Giesbrecht (68) gives a systematic description of the “ Ascomyzontidce” 
and a systematic note on the Copepoda (70). 
G. O. Sars continues the publication of the “ Crustacea of Norway ” 
(157). This, as the author’s other works, is a model to systematists. 
Every single species is not only fully described, but adequately illustrated 
as well, forming an admirable contrast to that method of publishing 
descriptions of new species without figures, which can only end in the 
greatest confusion. Other papers by the same author deal with the 
“ Crustacea of the Caspian Sea” (154, 155), and with the “ Pliyllopoda 
of the Jana Expedition” (156). 
Ortmann has written two valuable articles. The first is entitled 
“ Carcinologische Studien” (120) and is principally systematic. The 
second discusses the “Geographical distribution of the Trapeziidce ” (119). 
Hansen describes the Isopoda collected by the “Albatross” in the 
Pacific (76). 
Palaeontological papers are not very numerous. Calman (28) has 
studied the affinities of Anaspides with certain fossil forms; Jones & 
Kirby (88) the Carboniferous Ostracoda of New Zealand ; and Woodward 
(203) the higher Crustacea from tho Cretaceous of Queen Charlotte and 
Vancouver Islands. 
CouTiiBRE (36-39) adds to our knowledge of the Alpheidce by description 
of a number of new forms from different regions, and Richard (144-149) 
does the same for the Entomostraca. 
Bouvier (15-20) describes new Crustacea from the Neotropical and 
Ethiopian regions, and in conjunction with Milne-Edwards (53-55) new 
Decapoda. Brady (22) adds a supplementary note to the report on the 
“Challenger” Ostracoda. Man (101) publishes a report on new and rare 
Brachyura in the Hamburg Museum. 
Amongst papers dealing with Crustacea from definite regions we may 
select the following, Bouvier (20) on the Paguridce of Europe, and 
Brady (23) on British species of Daplinia , as noteworthy. The Copepoda 
and Cladocera of Germany form the subject of two papers by Steuer 
(179, 180). 
The Cumacea and Schizopoda of Heligoland have been catalogued and 
described by Ehrenbaum (56), and the Cirripedia by Weltner (198). 
Birula (11, 12) continues his faunistic studies on the Russian Seas. 
Some new Amphipoda from the Copenhagen Museum are figured by 
Stebbing (176). 
American Crustacea received a good deal of attention during 1897. 
Miss Rathbun published synopses of many American and African species 
of Decapoda (136-140) and has, in tho first published number of tho 
“Annals of tho Institute of Jamaica,” given an exhaustive list of tho 
Decapoda of that island (143). Schacht (158) has listed the North . 
American species of Diaptomus , and Sharp (166) the freshwater 
Ostracoda. 
We must not omit to notice the appearance of Drygalski’3 volumes on 
the “Gronland Expedition,” in which Vanhoffen gives some account of 
the Crustacea and Pycnogonida (51). 
Weber (196) describes the freshwater Decapoda of South Africa, Whit- 
legge (200) the Crustacea of Funafuti, and Dollfus (46-50) the terrestrial 
Isopoda of Argentina and other countries. 
Of the Gigantostraca only 11 papers are recorded in this issue. This 
small number, and the defects of certain other parts of the Record, are 
due to its preparation before certain of the foreign periodicals had reached 
the country. 
