RHYNCHOCEPHALIA—ECAUDATA. 
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H. S. Harrison, Quart. J. Micr. Sci. (2) xliv, pp. 161-213, pis. x-xii, has a 
paper on the development and succession of the teeth in Sphenodon 
punctatus. Abstract, Anat. Anz. xx, pp. 145-158, figg. 
H. Virchow, SB. Ges. naturf. Berlin 1901, pp. 42-62, and Arch. Physiol. 
1901, pp. 355-363, writes on the retina of Sphenodon punctatus. 
JYaosaurus mirabilis , Fritsch (foss.), noticed and. figured by Fritsch, 
Faun. Gaskohle iv, p. 86, figg. 
ANOMODONTIA. 
R. Broom, Tr. S. African Soc. xi, pp. 169-176, pi. xxv, remarks on the 
structure of the palate in Dicynodon and its allies. 
Udenodon gracilis , sp. n., Broom, P. Z. S. 1901, ii, p. 162, pis. xvi-xviii, 
Lower Karroo beds of Pearston, S. Africa. 
Ictidosuchus , g. n., probably allied to Theriodesmus , for 7. primcevus , sp. n., 
Broom, t. c. p. 177, pis. xxvi & xxvii, Trias of Pearston, S. Africa. 
Pariosaurus, Seeley. On remains of a new species from the Permian of 
Northern Russia : V. Amalitzky, C.R. Ac. Sci. cxxxii, p. 593. 
BATRACHIA. 
H. Gadow, in the eighth volume of the Cambridge Natural History, 
introduces various innovations in the classification of the Batrachians. 
Some of the Stegocephala are now transferred to the class Reptilia. 
R. Semon, Zool. Anz. xxiv, pp. 180-188, deals with the relation between 
Batrachia and Dipneusti. 
H. L. Bruner, Morphol. Jahrb. xxix, pp. 317-364, pis. xvii & xviii, writes 
on the smooth facial muscles of Tailless and Tailed Batrachians, as a 
contribution to the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory 
mechanism. 
EL M. Bernard, Quart. J. Micr. Sci. (2) xliv, pp. 443-468, pis. xxx & xxxi, 
brings out the second part of his studies on the retina of Batrachians. 
W . Kapelkin, Bull. Soc. Moscou 1900, pp. 433-448, pis. v & vi, writes on 
the development of the vertebral column of Batrachians. 
7. Hinsberg, Arch. mikr. Anat. lviii, pp. 411-482, figg., pis. xix-xxii, has 
investigated the development of the nasal cavity in Batrachians. 
C Peter, Anat. Anz. xix, pp. 185-191, figg., writes on the influence of the 
developmental conditions on the formation of the central nervous 
system and the sense-organs in Batrachians. 
L F. Conradi, Science (2) xiv, p. 816, writes on the stupefying effect on 
Batrachians of the odoriferous secretion of a North American He- 
teropterous Insect, Anasa tristis. 
ECAUDATA. 
I Gacpp, in the first part of the third division of his new edition of 
Ecker’s Anatomie des Frosches, deals with the visceral anatomy of the 
Frog. 
Iarage, C.R. Ac. Sci. cxxxii, pp. 1072-1074, figg., remarks on the otoliths 
of Frogs. 
'. J. Cole, P. Liverp. biol. Soc. xv, pp. 114-124, pi. i, describes some 
variations in the spinal muscles of Rana temporaria. 
" H. Kahn, Arch. mikr. Anat. lvii, pp. 102-117, pi. viii, describes the 
inscriptiones elasticce in the tendons of the oblique abdominal muscles 
of Rana esculenta. 
