Miscellaneous. On the Parthenogenesis in Bees. 'Comptes Rendus.')-The Development of Ligula. Ann. des Sci. Nat.') GREVILLEA (No. 42) for December : By M. E. Samson. (From New Diatoms. By Professor H. L. Smith, LL.D. (From Am. Quar. Mic. Jour.') * Rehm's Ascomyceten. New Diatoms. By Professor P. T. Cleve. With notes by F. Kitton, Hon. F.R.M S. Californian Sphæriæ. By Charles B. Plowright. HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP for November : : Fossil Polyzoa. The Genus Fenestella: its History, Development, and Range in Space and Time. I. History of the Genus. By G. R. Vine. (With 4 woodcuts.) Microscopy. The Congress of Microscopists (held at Indianapolis).-Microscopical Society of Liverpool (Meeting of 11th October).-A Remarkable Photograph (Lord's Prayer in 1 of a square inch). For December : A few Words about a little Gnat. By Edward Cox. (With a woodcut.) Microscopy-Varnish for Glycerine Mounts.-New Diatoms.-Diatoms in Coal. -A Collecting Stick. NATURE: : October 24-On a New Method of Studying the Optical Characters of Minerals. (Address by the Chairman, H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., Pres. G.S., &c., at the Meeting of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytech ic Society, held in Selby, on March 13.) November 28:-Biological Notes:-Gall-making Insects. THE JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY (BOTANY), Vol. XVII., No. 99 (issued 5th November) : The Fungi of Texas. By M. C. Cooke, A.L.S. On the Mechanism for the Fertilisation of Meyenia erecta, Benth. By R. Irwin Lynch, of Kew Gardens. (With a woodcut.) Remarks on Mr. Crombie's Paper on the Challenger' Lichens in ‘Jour. Linn. Soc., vol. xvi. By James Stirton, M.D., F.L.S. (ZOOLOGY) Vol. XIV., No. 76 (issued 31st October): The Life-History of Filaria Bancrofti, as explained by the Discoveries of Wucherer, Lewis, Bancroft, Manson, Sonsino, myself, and others. By T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany and Helminthology, Royal Veterinary College. On the action of Limpets (Patella) in sinking Pits in and abrading the surface of the Chalk at Dover. By J. Clarke Hawkshaw, M.A., F.G.S. JOURNAL OF THE QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB, No. 38 (October):— On an Apparatus for facilitating the use of "Powell's Small Bull's-eye" Illuminator in the Resolution of Test Objects. By Geo. Williams. (With a plate.) On the Influence of Diffraction in Microscopic Vision. By Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A., Sec. R.M.S., V.P.Q.M.C. (With a plate.) Address by the President, Henry Lee, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., delivered at the Annual Meeting, July 26, 1878. Proceedings of the Meetings of 10th and 24th May, 14th and 28th June, 12th and 26th July. Thirteenth Report of the Club, List of Members, Rules, &c. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY AND POPULAR SCIENCE for October : Volvor globator. By A. W. Bennett, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S. (With a plate.) (From Pop. Sc. Rev.') A few Remarks on Insect Dissection. By T. Charters White, M.R.C.S., F.R.M.S., &c. (From Journal of Quekett Microscopical Club.') Professor Abbe on the Defining and Resolving Powers of the Microscope. On a Method of Mounting whole Insects without Pressure for the Binocular Microscope. By Staniforth Green. (From 'Journal of the Quckett Microscopical Club.') The Effect of Politeness. (From Nature.') Oleomargarine. By John Michels. (With 2 woodcuts.) The Microscope in Medicine. (From King's Urological Dictionary.') The Hard Tissues of Animals-their Origin and Formation. Paper read by Mr. X. Clark before the San Francisco Microscopical Society, 19th September, 1878. To Remove tight Stoppers. (From Amateur's Handbook.')-Glass Working. (Ditto.)-Instruction in Microscopy.-New Rooms of the New York Microscopical Society. Deposits from Water of the Mississippi River. The proposed Micrometric Unit-Correspondence.—Oiling the Microscope. C. S.-Transactions of the San Francisco Microscopical Society of 19th September. The Germ Theory of Disease and its present bearing upon public and personal Hygiene. A Lecture by Professor Jos. G. Richardson, M.D. (From the Medical Record.') Hyalodiscus subtilis and H. Californicus. By F. Kitton, Hon. F.R.M.S. With Notes by Professor H. L. Smith. (With 8 woodcuts.) Notes on Microscopic Life in the Buffalo Water Supply. By D. S. Kellicott. The Woodward Prism. The Weber Slide. (With a woodcut.) Carl Zeiss New Oil-Immersion Objective of -inch Focus. No. 5. By A. Schulze. (From the English Mechanic.') The "Oil-Immersion" of Carl Zeiss compared with the Objectives of C. G. Spencer and Sons. By Professor H. L. Smith, LL.D. (From Am. Quar. Mic. Jour.') A Correction (Micrometers). Our Book Table.-The American Quarterly Microscopical Journal. - The Amateur's Handbook of Practical Information. Correspondence.-On Objectives: W. G. Lapham.-A query for Mr. Merriman : "Turntable."-Mr. Merriman's Answer.-Oleomargarine: W. H. Brewer, and Note by the Editor.. Current Notes.-Professor P. J. Cleve's Diatoms, &c. Transactions of Societies.-San Francisco Microscopical Society: 3rd and 17th October.-State Microscopical Society of Illinois: 25th October.-Microscopical Section, Troy Scientific Association: 7th October.. Exchanges. AMERICAN QUARTERLY MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL, Vol. I., No. 1 (October): The Sting of the Honey Bee. By J. D. Hyatt. (With 2 plates.) Description of New Species of Diatoms. By Professor H. L. Smith, LL.D. (With a plate.) Observations on several Forms of Saprolegnieæ. By F. B. Hine, B.S. (With 4 plates.) TheOil-Immersion" of Carl Zeiss compared with the Objectives of C. A. Spencer and Sons. By Professor H. L. Smith, LL.D. The Microscopical Examination of Fibers. By W. H. Seaman. A new Device for Dark-Field Illumination. By Professor Wm. Lighton. (With a woodcut.) BIBLIOGRAPHY. On the Spore-Formation of the Mesocarpeæ. By E. Perceval Wright. (From 'Nature.') On the Structure of Blood-corpuscles. A Standard Micrometer. By R. Hitchcock. Editorial: Salutatory. Is there a Science of Microscopy?-Dredging in the Gulf of Mexico. The National Microscopical Congress.-Notes.-Laboratory Notes and Queries. Digest of Current Literature.-Book Notices.-Publications received. Transactions of the New York Microscopical Society :Introductory.-Micrometry. By Romyn Hitchcock.-Oblique Illumination By R. Hitchcock. (With a woodcut.)-Proceedings and means of obtaining it. -20th September. AMERICAN NATURALIST for October : How Thistles spin. By Professor W. J. Beal. (With 7 woodcuts.) Microscopy.-National Microscopical Congress.-Microscopical Directory.— Exchanges. JOURNAL DE MICROGRAPHIE for November : Micrography at the Exhibition of 1878. By Dr. J. Pelletan. Universal Exhibition of Paris. List of the Rewards. Class 15, Instruments of Precision. The Lymphatic Hearts (continu tion). By Professor L. Ranvier. Angular Aperture of Microscopic Objectives. By Dr. G. E. Blackham, President of the Microscopical Society of Dunkirk, U.S. (With a plate.) By Dr. J. Pelletan. On Foreign Microscopes (continuation). woodcuts.) Objectives with new Cover Adjustment (à liquide interposé). (With 2 The New Oil of Cedar' Immersion Objective of Carl Zeiss. (From the 'Bulletin of the Belgian Society of Microscopy.') The Cabinet of Microscopy of Mr. E. Wheeler. ANNALES DES SCIENCES NATURELLES (ZOOLOGIE), Sixth Series, Vol. VII., Nos. 2-4 (issued in August): Description of rare or new Crustacea of the French Coast. By M. Hesse. (With a plate.) Experiments on the Conditions of Development of the Ligule. (Abstracted from Comptes Rendus.') By M. Duchamp. (BOTANIQUE.) Sixth Series. Vol. VI., Nos. 5 & 6 (issued in October): Development of the Embryo-sac of the Angiospermous Phanerogams. By M. Julien Vesque. (With 6 plates.) COMPTES RENDUS Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Vol. LXXXVI., No. 1 (7th January): Researches on the Intracellular Alcoholic Fermentation of Plants. By M. A. Muntz. On the Inversion and on the Alcoholic Fermentation of Cane Sugar by Mouldiness. By M. U. Gayon. Some Remarks on the Origin of the Alcoholic Yeasts. By M. A. Trécul. On the Formation of the Fibrin of Blood, studied with the Microscope. By M. G. Hayem. No. 2 (14th January) :- Note on M. Trécul's Communication in the last Number. By M. Pasteur. No. 4 (28th January): Report of the Commission on the Bordin Prize-M. Charles Eugene Bertrand's Essays: (1) Can the Group of the Lycopodiaceæ be regarded as a transition Group between the Dicotyledonous Gymnospermous Phanerogams and the Vascular Cryptogams? and (2) Comparative Anatomy of the Integuments of Seed. Report of the Commission on the Thore Prize-M. Jousset de Bellesme's Essay on the Phenomena of Digestion in Insects. No. 5 (4th February) :-- On the Employment of the Polarizing Microscope with Parallel Light for the Determination of the Species of Minerals contained in thin Plates of eruptive Rocks. By M. A. Michel-Lévy. New Researches on the Function of Moulds, and their property of inverting Cane Sugar, with reference to a Note of M. U. Gayon. By M. A. Béchamp. No. 7 (18th February): — Refutation of the Criticisms that M. Pasteur has made on my opinion as to the Origin of Alcoholic Yeasts and Lactic Yeast. By M. A. Trécul. On the Conditions of Development of the Ligula. By M. G. Duchamp. No. 8 (25th February): The Action of Oxygen on the Anatomical Elements. By M. P. Bert. No. 9 (4th March) : On Lactic Fermentation. By M. L. Boutroux. Researches on the Chemical Composition and the Functions of the Leaves of Plants. By M. B. Corenwinder. No. 10 (11th March): The Influence of the Discoveries of M. Pasteur on the Progress of Surgery. By M. C. Sédillot. Remarks relative to the preceding Communication. By M. d'Abbadie. The precise Orientation of the principal Section of the Nicols in Polarizing Apparatus. By M. L. Laurent. Classification of Stellerides. By M. C. Viguier. No. 11 (18th March): The Influence of Rest and of Movement in the Phenomena of Life. By M. A. Horvath. Researches on the Suspension of the Phenomena of Life in the Embryo of the By M. C. Dareste. Hen. Proofs of the Parasitic Nature of Anthrax. Identity of Lesions in the Rabbit, the Guinea Pig, and the Sheep. By M. H. Toussaint. No. 12 (25th March):— On a Camera Lucida. By M. Pellerin. The Formation of Partitions in the Stylospores of the Hendersoniæ and Pestalozzia. By M. L. Crié. No. 13 (1st April): The Conidia of Polyporus sulfureus, Bull, and their Development. By M. J. de Seynes. Anthrax in the Horse and the Dog. Phlogogenic Action of Anthracic Blood. By M. H. Toussaint. The Epoch of Formation of the Cloaca in the Embryo of the Chicken. By M. Cadiat. No. 15 (15th April): On a Rare Form of the Hepatic Organ in Worms. By M. Joannes Chatin. No. 17 (29th April): The Theory of Germs, and its Applications to Medicine and Surgery. By MM. Pasteur, Joubert, and Chamberland. No. 18 (6th May): On the Gold Method and the Termination of the Nerves in the Unstriated Muscles. By M. L. Ranvier. On the Wartelia, a new Genus of Annelids, wrongly considered the Embryo of Terebella. By M. A. Giard. No. 20 (20th May): On the Distinction between the Luminous and Chromatic Sensations. By M. Aug. Charpentier. On the Terminations of the Nerves in the Sudoriparous Glands of the Paw of the Cat. By M. P. Coyne. No. 21 (27th May): On the Origin of the Excito-sudoral Nerve-fibres contained in the Sciatic Nerve of the Cat. By M. Vulpian. On the Production of the Luminous Sensation. By M. Aug. Charpentier. On the Structure of the Nerves in Invertebrates. By M. Cadiat. No. 23 (10th June): On the Origin of the Excito-sudoral Nerve-fibres of the anterior Limbs of the Cat. By M. A. Vulpian. Experiment demonstrating that the Nerve-fibres whose excitation causes the dilatation of the Pupil do not all proceed from the Cervical Cord of the great Sympathetic. By M. A. Vulpian. Anatomical Observations on certain Cutaneous Excretory Glands in the Fluviatile Tortoises of China. By M. Rathouis. Experimental Proofs of the incomplete crossing of the Nerve-fibres in the Chiasma of the Optic Nerves-Longitudinal and Median Section of the Chiasma not followed by Blindness. By M. Nicati. No. 24 (17th June): On the Gemmiparous and Fis-iparous Reproduction of Noctiluca (Noctiluca miliaris, Suriray). The Functions of the Leaves in the Phenomenon of Gaseous Exchanges between Plants and the Atmosphere-The Rôle of the Stomata in the Functions of the Leaves. By M. Mercet. No. 25 (24th June): Organisms held in suspension in the Atmosphere. By M. P. Miguel. Vol. LXXXVII., No. 1 (1st July): On Anaërobiosis of Micro-Organisms. By M. Gunning. No. 2 (8th July):— On a Disease of an Anthracic Form, caused by a new Aerobic Vibrion. M. H. Toussaint. By On the Propagation and Metamorphoses of the Suctorial Crustacea of the Family Cymo hoada. By M. Schiödte. |