THE last two issues of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (86, Pts. II, III and IV) contain one memoir, and they will be received with mixed feelings of gratitude and sadness by zoologists ...
THE number of NATURE published on June 28 last contains (p. 197) an interesting paper by Prof. Baldwin Spencer, which deals with the excretory system of the gigantic Australian earthworm Megascolides.