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THE Editor of the Zoologische Jahrbücher has received a bulky tribute of esteem in the three-volume Festschrift that supplements this year's issue of that journal. In the first volume the twenty-four essays are chiefly of systematic character. Even a list of these would occupy too much space, and we can merely draw attention to some of the more interesting points. A Pantopod-larva from Kiel leads Richters to suggest a crustacean origin for the group. Friese and v. Wagner continue their admirable studies on bees by a contribution to our knowledge of arctic-, alpine-, and steppe-forms of humble-bees. M. M. Metcalf describes an Opalina the nuclei of which fail to complete their mitosis. Many other papers of interest to systematists occur in this section. The second volume is chiefly anatomical, and the most important paper is probably that by Julin on the development of Pyrosoma. The other papers are largely descriptive and of interest mainly to the anatomist. The third section of the work is composed of general papers and of physiological ones. The most elaborate of these is the very detailed study of muscular contraction and movement in Lamellibranchs carried out by Polimanti at Naples; but there is also a very careful study of the ciliary apparatus in the eyes of vertebrates by C. Hess, another on the spermatophores of Crustacea by E. A. Andrews, and an interesting account of the insect larvae which use their hind gut as an organ of propulsion. Upon the whole, however, it must be confessed that this Festschrift, in spite of its great bulk and beautiful plates, is a dull work.
Festschrift zum sechzigsten Geburtstage des Herrn Geheimen Hofrats Prof. Dr. Johann Wilhelm Spengel in Giessen.
Herausgegeben von A. Brauer L. Döderlein L. Dollo H. Ludwig E. L. Mark M. Weber A. Weismann. Erster Band. Pp. viii+609+32 plates. Price 75 marks. Zweiter Band. Pp. vi.+863+41 plates. Price 100 marks. Dritter Band. Pp. v+572+18 plates. Price 50 marks. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1912.)
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Festschrift sum sechzigsten Geburtstage des Herrn Geheimen Hofrats Prof Dr Johann Wilhelm Spengel in Giessen . Nature 89, 580 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089580a0
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