62 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



LOPHOCOLEA SPICATA, TAYLOR, IN SCOTLAND. By W. H. 



Pearson. Journ. Bot., p. 401. 



SCALIA HOOKERI IN WEST INVERNESS. By W. H. Pearson. 

 Journ. Bot., p. 441. Both these new county records for rare liver^ 

 worts rest on specimens sent by Mr. S. Macvicar from Moidart. 



BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS FIRST 

 SUPPLEMENT (1893-97) continued. By James Britten, F.L.S., 

 and G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., pp. 443-446. Includes 

 Robert Lymburn (d. 1843), P au l Howard Macgillivray (1834-95), 

 and Christina Ramsay (nee Broun), Countess of Dalhousie (1805-33), 

 all natives of, or connected with, Scotland. 



REVIEWS. 



THE STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. By Frank 

 E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., Prosector and Vice-Secretary of the Zoo- 

 logical Society of London. (London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 

 1898.) 



It is not a little remarkable that, among the almost countless 

 works published in this country devoted to the study of birds, not 

 one has been given to us on the important subject of their structure 

 in relation to their classification. 



Mr. Beddard's book is thus an especially welcome and a much- 

 needed one, and supplies a real want. 



The book may be said to be the work of three well-known 

 specialists ; for, as Mr. Beddard informs us in his Preface, his pre- 

 decessors in the office of Prosector Professor Garrod and Mr. W. A. 

 Forbes had contemplated writing such a work, and he has 

 had the use and benefit of the various manuscripts and notes left 

 by his late friends. These, added to his own numerous investiga- 

 tions, form the base upon which he has founded this meritorious 

 work. 



The book is written upon the lines that will prove most accept- 

 able to ornithologists, namely, systematically, the main portion of 

 its pages being devoted to an account of the structure of the various 

 Orders. 



The book opens with a sketch of the General Structure of 

 Birds, and of the Renal and Reproductive Organs, the Ccelom, 

 Circulatory System, Respiratory System, Muscular Anatomy, 

 Osteology, Brain and Nervous System, and the Affinities of Birds. 

 Then follows the systematic portion on the Classification of Birds, 

 with an account of the anatomical structure of the Orders, and the 



