27G ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Several volumes on zoology have been issued by the Unit- 

 ed States Geological Survey, conducted by Professor F. V. 

 Hayden. Of these the most important are: "Monographs 

 of North American Kodentia," by Elliott Coues and Joel 

 Asaph Allen ; published as one of the quarto series of the 

 United States Geological Survey of the Territories, F. V. 

 Hayden in charge: Washington, 1877. It contains eleven 

 monographs five by Dr. Coues and six by Mr. Allen, with 

 appendix. "A Synoptical List of the Fossil Kodentia of 

 North America," by J. A. Allen, and Appendix B. "Mate- 

 rial for a Bibliography of North American Mammals," by 

 Theodore Gill and Elliott Coues. The volume is carefully 

 indexed, comprises 1091 pages, and contains five plates illus- 

 trative of the skulls of the Muridee. It is a monumental 

 work upon a single order of mammals. 



The volume on Zoology of Lieutenant Wheeler's Survey 

 of the Western Territories, carried on by the United States 

 Engineer Corps, is dated 1875, but has but recently been 

 distributed. It is largely devoted to an enumeration of the 

 birds of the Rocky Mountains, with extended remarks on 

 their habits and distribution by Mr. II. W. Henshaw. The 

 mammals are discussed by Drs. Coues and Yarrow, who also 

 report on the batrachians and reptiles, while the fishes have 

 been worked up by Professor Cope and Dr. Yarrow. Much 

 space and several beautiful plates are devoted to the insects, 

 the following gentlemen presenting reports on the species 

 belonging to the orders of which they have a special knowl- 

 edge, to wit : E. T. Cresson, Edward Norton, T. L. Mead, W. 

 H. Edwards, K. II. Stretch, K. Osten-Sacken, H. Ulke, P. K. 

 Uhler, Cyrus Thomas, and H. A. Hagen ; while Dr. Yarrow 

 reports on the shells, and Professor A. E. Verrill on the 

 leeches. 



A bulky report on the vertebrate paleontology of Whee- 

 ler's survey, illustrated with many plates, comprises the re- 

 sults of Professor Cope's researches in New Mexico and Col- 

 orado during: a single season. 



After a delay of several years, Captain (now Colonel) 

 Simpson's report of explorations across the Great Basin of 

 the Territory of Utah has appeared, containing a list of 

 birds collected on the expedition, by Professor S. F. Baird, 

 and a finely illustrated report on the fishes by Professor Gill. 



