26 Rept. IV. REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA. 
life-history and development by A. Dendy, Tr. N. Zealand Inst, xxxi, 
pp. 249-255. On embryos and eggs: G. B. Howes, P. Z. S. 1898, 
p. 589. G. Thilenius, SB. Ak. Berlin xiv, pp. 247-256, has a 
preliminary communication on the oviposition and early development. 
On the hatching of the eggs: A. Dendy & G. B. Howes, Nature, lix, 
p. 340. 
G. Osawa, Anat. Anz. xv, p. 289, has further remarks on the supposed 
relationship between Sphenodon and the Agamoid Lizards. 
G. Baur (the late) & E. C. Case have a memoir on the structure of the 
fossil Dimetrodon incisivus, Cope, with considerations on the Pelyco- 
saurian group. 
ANOMODONTIA. 
Bemarks on the Anomodontia as possible ancestors of the Mammalia: 
H. G. Seeley, H. F. Osborn, and 0. C. Marsh, Proc. Intern. Congr. 
Zool. 1898, pp. 68-74, 415-419. 
H. G. Seeley, C.B. Congr. Geol. Intern, vii, pp. 179-182, remarks on 
Theriodont remains from the Governments of Perm and Vologda. 
Pariotichus , Cope. Remarks by E. C. Case, Zool. Bull, ii, p. 231, figg., 
with a redescription of P. incisivus , Cope. 
BATEACHIA. 
R. Semon, Festchrift C. v. Kupffer, pp. 353-364, figg., pi. xxxvi, remarks 
on the formation of articulations in the limbs of Batrachians. 
H. Bolau, Zool. Jahrb. Anat. xii, pp. 657-710, figg., writes on the thyroid 
and thymus glands of Batrachians. 
F. Fritz, Jena. Zeitschr. xxxiii, pp. 191-262, pis. vi-xi, investigates the 
optic chiasma in Batrachians. 
F. Gidon, Bull. Soc. Normand. (5) i, 189&, pp. 132—149, has a paper on 
the poisons of French Batrachians. 
ECAUDATA. 
H. K. Corning, Morphol. Jahrb. xxvii, pp. 173-240, pis. ix & x, and 
H. Lundborg, t. c. pp. 242-262, pi. xii, write on some points in the 
development of the head in Rana. 
A. Ruffini, Monit. Zool. ital. x, pp. 91 & 92, has a preliminary note on 
the development of the spleen in Rana esculenta. 
H. Beissner, Arch. mikr. Anat. liii, pp. 168-179, figg., pi. ix, writes on 
the structure of the seminal ducts in Rana temporaria and R. 
esculenta. 
G. N. Sterzi, Anat. Anz. xvi, pp. 230-239, writes on the membranes of 
the spinal cord in Tailless Batrachians. 
G. Ottendorff, Arch. mikr. Anat. liii, pp. 131-148, figg., writes on the 
plexus-formation of the nerves on the middle line of the dorsal skin 
of Frogs. 
A. Kuhn, Arch. mikr. Anat. lv, pp. 231-244, figg., pi. xiv, writes on the 
course of the nerves in the skin of the back of Rana temporaria. 
B. D. Myers, P. Amer. Ass. xlviii, pp. 253 & 254, gives an abstract of his 
communication on the course of the fibres in the optic chiasma of 
Rufo lentiginosus. 
A. Ruffini, Monit. Zool. ital. x, Suppl. pp. lxiii—lxviii, writes on the 
development of the glandular layer of the stomach in Rana esculenta. 
