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THE January number (N.S., No. 37) of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science opens with an article entitled “Notes on Sponges,” by Prof. E. Perceval Wright. In this the author indicates some peculiarities of the structure of the sponge-body of Hyalonema mirabilis, and describes two new species of deep sea spenges, namely Aphrocallistes Bocagei, which is exquisitelyfigured by Mr. Ford, and the type of a new genus which the author names Wyvillethomsonia Wallichii. We cannot help protesting against this new generic name, as being barbarous in the highest degree. Mr. William Archer, of Dublin, continues his valuable description of new or imperfectly-known fresh-water Rhizöpoda, and Mr. W. S. Kent describes and figures a curious new form of Plyzoöpoda, from the Victoria Docks, whre the animal lives attached to the surface of specimens of the Cordylophora lacustris. For this Polyzoön, which the author regards as the type of a new family (Homodiatida) of the Ctenostomata, he proposes the name of Victorella pavida. A singular crustacean parasite found on Nereis cultrifera is desenbed and figured by Dr. W. C. McIntosh. Besides these, we have a paper on the distribution of nerves to the vessels of the connective tissue in the hilus of the pig's kidney, and on the ganglia connected with hese nerves, by Dr. James Tyson, of Philadelphia; an abstract of a dissertation on the minute structure of the human umbilical cord by Dr. Köster; a translation of Dr. E. Van Beneden's description of his Gregarina gigantea (with a plate); and an abstract of an important memoir, by Dr. Kowalewsky, on the reationship of Ascidians and Vertebrates. The only original article on the microscope itself is one by Dr. G. W. Royston-Pigott, on certain imperfections and tests of object-glasses. This number also contains a review of Mr. Hincks's “History, of British Hydroid Zoophytes.”
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Scientific Serials . Nature 1, 294 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001294a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001294a0