A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND EDWARD D. COPE.
DR. ELLIOTT COUES, DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS AND BIRDS.
PROF. O. T. MASON, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY.
ELLIS H. YARNALL, DEP. of Geography AND TRAVELS.
DR. R. H. WARD, DEPARTMENT OF MICROSCOPY.
PRESS OF MCCALLA & STAVELY,
Nos. 237 AND 239 DOCK STREet.
Copyrighted 1880,
BY MCCALLA & STAVELY,
For the Proprietors.
A Sketch of Comparative Embryology. (II.-Fertilzation of the
Ovum. III.-Segmentation and the Formation of the Gastrula.) Charles Sedgwick Minot... 242
Progress of Invertebrate Palæontology in the United States for
Notes on the Flowering of Saxifraga sarmentosa .
Destruction of Obnoxious Insects by means of Fungoid Growths. A. N. Prentiss
The Siphonophores. (I.-The Anatomy and Development of
The Philadelphia Academy, 38, 117; The tariff on specimens, apparatus and books necessary
for instruction in the sciences, 190; The Philadelphia Board of Education, 191; The Philadel-
phia Academy of Natural Sciences, 356; Some Pertinent Remarks in "Nature," 359; Proposed
exploration of the ruins of Mexico and Central America, 359; Government aid to pure Science,
654; Biology at the American Association at Boston, 725: Obligations of Educational and Charis
table Institutions, 793; The Metric System, 881; The Permanent Exhibition of Philadelphia, 881.
Geological Survey of Canada, 42; Morse's Shell Mounds of Japan, 43; Growth as a Function
of Cells, 44; Williamson's Fern Etchings, 45; Recent Books and Pamphlets, 46; Notes on New
England Isopoda, 120; Carcinological Papers of Paul Mayer, 121; Herrick's Entomostraca, 121;
The Misses Jones and Shulze's Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio, 122: Nicholson's Manual
of Paleontology, 123; Recent Books and Pamphlets, 124; Dana's Manual of Geology, third edi-
tion, 192; The Refutation of Darwinism, 192; Hallez's Natural History of Turbellarian Worms,
193: Westwood's Synopsis of Uraniidæ, 194; The Zoological Record for 1877, 194; Leidy's
Rhizopods of North America, 195; Recent Books and Pamphlets, 196; Brehm's Animal Life,
280; Grenacher's Researches on the Eyes of Arthropods, 281; Dall's Meteorology of the Pa-
cific Coast Pilot, 281; Barrande's Brachipods of Bohemia, 282; Huxley on the Crayfish, 282;
Thomas's Noxious Insects of Illinois, 283; Riley on the Cotton Worm, 283; Gilbert's Geology of
the Henry mountains, 284; Batrachological Papers, 286; Osteological Contributions, 287; The
Annual Report of the Hayden Survey for 1877, 360; Recent Books and Pamphlets, 360; Smith's
Brazil; The Amazons and the Coast, 436; Natural Science and Religion, 436; Moseley's Natu-
ralist on the "Challenger," 437; Clarke's Development of the Salamander, 438; Penning's Text
Book of Field Geology, 438; Sketches of the Physical Geography and Geology of Nebraska,
439; Archives of Comparative Medicine and Surgery, 439; Traquair on Platysomidæ, 439;
Recent Books and Pamphlets, 441; The Geology of Wisconsin, 508; Mr. Kingsley on the Crus-
tacea belonging to Union College, 509; Crosby's Geology of Eastern Massachusetts, 509;
Brooks's Development of the Oyster, 510; Thomas's Chinch Bug, 511; The Geological Record,
511; The Midland Naturalist, 512; Rocky Mountain Health Resorts, 512; Proceedings of the
Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 512; Hayden's Great West, 513; Verrill's Cephalopods
of Northeastern America, 514; Recent Books and Pamphlets, 514; Packard's Zoology, 582;
Studies from the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge, 584; The Hessian
Fly, 586; A New German Geographical Journal, 588; Favre's Geology of the Canton of Geneva,
588; Recent Books and Pamphlets, 588; Some Recent Publications on Japanese Archæology,
656; Balfour's Comparative Embryology, 662; The Odontornithes, or Birds with Teeth, 664;
Thomas's Noxious Insects of Illinois, 665; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London
for 1879, 665; Recent Books and Pamphlets, 667; Nell's New Map of Colorado, 728; Haeckel's
System of Medusæ, 729; Recent Books and Pamphlets, 730; Bessey's Botany, 796; Huxley's
Introductory to Science Primers, 797; Emerton's Seaside Collecting, 798; Zittel's Palæontology,
798; Koppen's Injurious Insects of Russia, 799; Miss Omerod's English Injurious Insects, 799,
White's Contributions to Palæontology, 800; The Aborigines of Victoria. 800; Recent Books
and Pamphlets, 851; The Tarsus and Carpus of Birds, 882; A Manual of the Infusoria, 883:
Packard's Zoology, second edition, 884; Daubree's Chemical Geology, 885; Hertwig's Cha-
tognath Worms, 885; Wadsworth's Geological Papers, 886; Physical and Geological Results of
the French Expedition to observe the Transit of Venus, 886; Sigsbee's Deep Sea Sounding and
Dredging, 887: Recent Books and Pamphlets, 888.
Botany.-Moths entrapped by an Asclepiad Plant (Physianthus) and killed by Honey Bees,
48 Prof. Heer on Sequoia, 50; Botanical Notes, 51; Fertilization of Flowers by Humming
Birds, 126; Connection of the Rainfall with Forests, 127; The New Mexican Locust Tree, etc.,
127; Insects caught by the Physianthus, 128; Botanical Notes, 128; Sexual Differentiation in
Epigaa repens, 198; The Agency of Insects in Fertilization, 201; The Function of Chlorophyll,
The Humble Bee a Dysteleologist among Alpine Flower Visitors, 288; Botanical Notes, 291;
Fertilization of Flowers by Humming Birds, 362; Carnivorous Habits of Bees, 363; Fungi as Insect
Destroyers, 363; Twining Plants, 364: The Germ Disease Theory, 364; Botanical News, 365;
Transformation of Anthers into Ovaries, 442; Additions to a Historical Sketch of Botany, 443;
The Fly-trap, its First Discovery, 443; Arenaria grænlandica near Middletown, Conn., 444; Bo-
tanical Notes, 444: Effects of Uninterrupted Sunshine on Plants, 516; Destruction of Insects by
Fungi, 516; The Origin and Survival of the Types of Flowers, 517; Botanical Notes, 517;
Changes in Plant Life on the San Francisco Peninsula, 589: Botanical Notes, 592; Contrivances
for Cross-fertilization in the Ranunculacea, 668; Botanical Notes, 669; The Fertilization of Aqui
legia vulgaris, 731; Plants of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and New Foundland, 733 Botanical
Notes, 735; Mechanical Cause of Quincuncial Phyllotaxy, 802; Influence of High and Moist
Temperatures on Germination, 853; Nectar, its Nature, Occurrence and Uses, 803; Botanical
Notes, 803; The Botany of a City Square, 889; A Dispermous Acorn, 892; Botanical Notes, 894.
Zoology.-Changes in the Shell of Limnæa megasoma produced by Confinement, 51; Influence
of Poisons on Crustacea, 52; Difference in the Habits of Scalops aquaticus and Scapanus ameri-
canus, 52; The Cotton-worm Moth in Rhode Isiand, 53; Notes on Phyllopod Crustacea, 53;
The White Bellied Swallow (Iridoprocne bicolor), 54; Vibration of the Tail in Racers, 54; Fork-
tailed Eumeces fasciatus and the Variableness of this Species, 54; Zoological Notes, 55; Leather
Turtle, 129; The Chipping versus the European Sparrow, 129; Depredations of the European
Sparrow, 130; On the Torpidity of Animals, 130; Migration of Dragon-flies, 132; Tricho-
dina parasitic on the Gills of Necturus, 133; Zoological Notes, 133: Bundles of Snakes,
206; Reversed Melanthones, 207; Laws of Histological Differentiation, 208; Ant Battles,
209; Notes on the Geographical Distribution of the Crustacea, 209; The Psorosperms
found in Aphredoderus sayanus, 211; Structure of the Eye of Limulus, 212; Advent of Passer
domesticus in North Carolina, 213; The Structure of the Trachea and "Peritracheal Circula-
tion" in Insects, 213; Vitality of Helix aspera, 214; Zoological News, 214; Twenty-six Days at
Sea, in an open Boat, Cruising for Whales, 292; List of Californian Reptiles and Batrachia col-
lected by Mr. Dunn and Mr. W. J. Fisher in 1876, 295: The Gastrula of Vertebrates and the Gas-
træa Theory, 296; Zoölogical Notes, 296; Notes on California Fishes, 366; The English Spar-
row in Newark, N. J., 368; A New Preservative Fluid, 369; The Spotted Salamander, 371;
Growth as a Function of Cells, 374; Scolopendrella as the type of a new order of Articulates
(Symphyla), 375: Notes on a larval Lithobius-like Myriapod, 376; Trichopetalum, 376; Dr.
Chapman on the Placenta of Elephas, 376; Zoological News, 377; The Island of Reil, 444: On
the Internal Structure of the Brain of Limulus polyphemus, 445; The Food of Birds, 448; Zoo-
logical Notes, 450; The Herring of the Pacific Coast, 518; Recent Articles on Crustacea, 519;
Another Black Robin, 521; Occurrence of the Bohemian Wax-wing in Western Washington Ter-
ritory, 521; Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Colorado Potato Beetle, 521; Can Snails Mend their
Shells, 522; Victimizing Rattlesnakes, 523; Bythinia tentaculata Linn., 523; Color Variety of the
Chipmunk, 523; Ferocious Tendencies of the Muskrat, 524; Nesting English Sparrows, 524;
Bird Arrivals at Evanston, Ill., 525; Gadus morrhua in Fresh Water, 525; Rev. Mr. Dallinger
on the Theory of Spontaneous Generation, 526; Theory of Bird Migrations, 527; Albino Beaver
and Squirrel, 528; Some Habits of the Pine Snake, 528; Notes on the Fish-hawks, 528; Poly-
morphous Anodontæ, 529; Preliminary Note on Branchipod Crustaceans, 531; A New Synthetic
Type, 531; Zoological Notes, 531; Tardigrades and Eggs, 593; An Abnormal Foot in Ambly-
stoma, 594; Notes on Myriopods, 594; Second Flight of Dragon-flies, 594; Breeding Habits of
Spiders, 595: Notes on New and Rare Fishes of the Pacific coast, 595; Case of Protective Mim-
icry in a Moth, 600; Male Eels in Holland, 600; Notes on the Wintering of the Robin, 6o1; The
Eyes and Brain of Cermatia forceps, 602; Zoological Notes, 603; A new Harvesting Ant, 669;
Budding in Free Medusa, 670; English Sparrows refusing to eat Worms, 671; How Insects
resist Cold, 672; "Mimicry" in Snakes, 672; Notes on the Mammals of Southern Utah, 673;
Ichthydium ocellatum, 674; On the Course of the Intestine in the Oyster (Ostrea virginiana),
674; Phosphorescence of very Young Fishes, 675; Zoological Notes, 676; A Relation between
Meteorology and the Grasshopper or Locust Pest, 735; Forster's Tern in Florida, 738; An-
Early Season, 738; A Fresh Water Jelly Fish, 739; Zoological Notes, 739; Eggs of the Tree
Cricket wanted, 804; Do Flying Fish Fly, 804: Flights of " Flies," 805; Cetonia inda, 806;
Cause of the Twisting of Spiral Shells, 806; The Young of the Crustacean Leucifer, a Nauplius,
806; The Frigate Mackerel, Auxis rochei, on the New England Coast, 808; On the Occurrence
of Freia producta Wright, in the Chesapeake bay, 810; Rhipidodendron splendidum, 811; A
Pale Variety of Polyxenes fasciculatus, 811; Zoological Notes, 812; The Metamorphosis of
Actinotrocha, 894; Occurrence of the Web-fingered Sea-robin on the coast of Maine, 896; The
Little Striped Skunk Climbing, 896; Voraciousness of Chordeiles popetue Baird, 896; Leeches
on a Turtle, 896; The Organs of Smell in Insects, 897; Action of Acids and Color Light on Ma-
rine Invertebrates, 897; The Thorax of the Blow Fly, 897; The Swimming-bladder of Fishes,
898; Zoological Notes, 898.
Anthropology-Anthropological News, 56; Rau's Palenque Tablet, 134; Anthropological News,
436; Ober's Carribees, 216; Mound Builders, 216; Anthropological News, 218; American Ethnol-
ogy, 297; Peruvian Antiquities, 299; Peabody Museum at Cambridge, 377; The Department of
Anthropology of the British Association, held in Sheffield, 1879, 378; Archæology in Indiana, 379;
Anthropological News, 379; A Dictionary and Grammar of the Aimará language, 450; Anthropol-
ogy in France, 451; Mr. Maclean's Contributions to Archæology, 452; The Protection of Antiqui-
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