Extant and fossil genera and species in the Libytheinae (Nymphalidae) are revised and reviewed. The Libytheinae includes two genera: Libythea Fabricius and Libytheana Michener. Fifteen species and an additional 24 subspecies are recognized and 41 names are synonymized. Species recognized are: Libythea celtis (Laicharting), L. collenettei Riley, L. cinyras Trimen revised status, L. geoffroyi God...

As long ago as 1876 Key and Retzius suggested that the canal of Schlemm was like a dural venous sinus, and Rochon-Duvigneaud (1892) was insistent on this point. Also, Wegefarth (1914), in experiments on the cerebro-spinal fluid, which ran parallel with those ofWeed (1914), showed that Pacchionianlike bodies occurred in Schlemm's canal in cats, dogs, rabbits, and monkeys. Since, however, this wa...

Little work has been done with the African species of Cremnops since their original descriptions. Herein we propose new combinations for five species that are currently placed in Cremnops, i.e., C. atripennis Szépligeti 1914 and C. elegantissima Szépligeti 1908 are moved to Disophrys; C. borealis (Szépligeti 1914) and C. rubrigaster Masi 1944 are moved to Biroia; and C. pulchripennis Szépligeti...

After examining the type specimens of species in the eastern North American genus Argyrostrotis the number of known species in the genus is reduced from 10 to six through synonymy. A key to species is included along with illustrations of the adults and genitalia of each species. Three Neotropical species currently included in Argyrostrotis (Argyrostrotis eurysaces Schaus, 1914; Argyrostrotis qu...

Margaret Charlton, Assistant Librarian of the McGill Medical Library from 1895 to 1914, played a leading role in the formation of the Medical Library Association, of which she became the first Secretary. Her career at McGill's Medical Library appears to have been a colourful one and brought her into contact with many of the faculty. After leaving McGill in 1914, she was appointed as Librarian a...

Four species of Trupanea Shrank (Diptera: Tephritidae) with unusual wing patterns are described from the Neotropical Region: T. dimorphica (Argentina), T. fasciata (Argentina), T. polita (Argentina and Bolivia), and T. trivittata (Argentina). Celidosphenella Hendel, 1914 and Melanotrypana Hering, 1944 are considered new synonyms of Trupanea, and the following species are transferred from Celido...

C. R. SEARLE, Eugenics and politics in Britain 1900-1914, Leyden, Noordhof International Publishing, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 147, Dfl. 45.00. Francis Galton (1822-1911) coined the word "eugenics", which he defined as, "the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally". Its objective was the increase of th...

VERN BULLOUGH, BONNIE BULLOUGH, and MARIETTA P. STANTON (eds), Florence Nightingale and her era: a collection of new scholarship, New York and London, Garland, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi. 365, $50.00. This volume, by established and new writers on the history of nursing, is the result of a conference held at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1989. The editors are to be congratulated for th...