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THE current number of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science commences with Dr. Roberts' address at the Manchester meeting of the British Medical Association on the doctrine of Contagium Vivum and its application to medicine.—Following this is Part 4 of Mr. Archer's résumé of recent contributions to our knowledge of “Fresh-water Rhizopoda,” including the Rhizopoda, Monothalamia, Monostomata.—Prof. Carl Vogt's account of Loxosoma is abstracted, with notes, by Rev. T. Hinks. The genus is confirmed as a Polyzoon, and allied to Pedicellina Its ova and reproductive buds are described, as well as the different organs, in detail.—A paper by Prof. Arthur Boettcher treats of the results arrived at by treating red blood corpuscles with alcoholic solution of corrosive sublimate.—Dr. Klein contributes a paper on the minute anatomy of the epidermis in small-pox of sheep.—The last paper is Prof. Lankester's important notes on the embryology and classification of the animal kingdom; comprising a revision of speculations relative to the origin and significance of the germ-layers. This paper has since been separately published.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 17, 214 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017214b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/017214b0