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BATRACHIA. 
In the Article “ Amphibia ” of the Supplement to the 9th edition of the 
Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Recorder gives an outline of the 
general classification of this class and alludes to the principal 
additions to our knowledge during the past thirty years. 
E. Suchard, Arch. anat. micr. v, pp. 457-484, figg., pis. xv & xvi, 
writes on the structure of the heart and arterial trunk in various 
Batrachians. 
Y. Faussek, Arch. mikr. Anat. lx, pp. 157-174, pi. ix, has a contribution 
to the histology of the gills. 
H. W. Norris, P. Iowa Ac. viii, pp. 76-78, remarks on the morphology 
and function of the ear in Batrachians. 
H. S. Harrison, Int. J. Anat. xix, pp. 221-261, pis. xi-xiii, writes on 
the perilymphatic spaces of the ear in Batrachians. 
A. Bochenek, Bull. Ac. Cracovie 1902, pp. 397-403, figg., has studied the 
structure of the hypophysis cerebri in Batrachians. 
A. Brachet, Arch. Biol, xix, pp. 1-243, pis. i-vii, has a memoir on the 
ontogenesis of Batrachians ( Rana temporaria and Axolotl). 
J. Nusbaum & J. Machowski have a preliminary note, Anat. Anz. xxi, 
pp. 110-127, figg-, on various points in the development of the 
thymus gland in Batrachians. 
H. N. Norris, t. c. pp. 433-442 figg., remarks on the origin of the 
so-called “ ventraler Kiemenrest ” and of the corpus propericardiale of 
the Frog. 
H. Lebrun, Cellule xix, pp. 315-402, pis. viii-xiii, has a further memoir 
on the nuclear development in the Batrachian eggs. 
A. Buhler, Morphol. Jahrb. xxxi, pp. 85-103, pis. iii & iv, has a paper on 
the resorption of the egg-follicle in Batrachians. 
W. Schimkewitsch, Anat. Anz. xxi, pp. 48-50, figg., remarks on the 
atavistic character of the regeneration of the lens in Batrachians. 
H. Gadow, P. R. Inst. Brit, xvi, pp. 587-594, remarks on colour and 
colour-changes in Batrachia. 
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F. B. Hofman, Arch. Anat. 1902, pp. 54-114, pis. iii-vi, writes on the 
intracardial nervous system of the Frog. 
Elizabeth H. Dunn, J. Comp. Neurol, xii, pp. 297-328, figg. writes 
on the nerve fibres of the leg of Rana virescens. 
G. Ceccherelli, Monit. Zool. ital. xiii, pp. 246 & 247, remarks on the 
structure of the muscles of the tongue in Rana esculenta. 
L. von MIchely has a paper in Hungarian on the voice and vocal 
apparatus of Tailless Batrachians. Potfuz. Termes. Kozl. xxxiii, 1901, 
pp. 145-157, figg. 
W. G. Ridewood, P. Linn. Soc. London 1902, p. 46, fig., describes and 
figures abnormal sacra in Rana esculenta and R. temporaria. 
H. Strasser, Arch. Sci. Nat. (4) xiv, p. 544, remarks on the development 
of the carpus in Tailless Batrachians. 
E. Warren, Zool. Anz. xxv, pp. 221 & 222, remarks on an abnormality in 
the blood-system of certain specimens of Rana temporaria. 
Helen D. King, Biol. Bull, iii, pp. 245-254, writes on the follicle sacs of 
the ovary in Tailless Batrachians. 
S. Ikeda, J. Coll. Japan xviii, art. 3, writes on the development of the 
egg in the Japanese species of Rana , Rhacophorus , and Bufo. 
