342 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



London Zoological Society. This is the first attempt that has 

 been made to determine accurately the number and bounda- 

 ries of the zoological provinces of that continent, although 

 Dr. Sclater and other eminent writers have sketched out the 

 subject in a general way. 



His primary division is into a Palae-arctic region and an 

 Indo-Malay region, of which the former embraces by far the 

 greater portion of the continent, including, indeed, every 

 thing continental excepting the southern portion, south of 

 China and the Himalaya Mountains. 



The Pala3-arctic region is divided into the Siberian or Bo- 

 real sub-region, including Siberia and the Amoor lands ; the 

 Mongolian sub-region, embracing Thibet, Tartary, Turkistan, 

 and the Caspian Sea, etc. ; the Mediterraneo-Persic region, 

 which extends through Europe, and includes the northern 

 coast of the Mediterranean Sea even to the Atlantic Ocean as 

 far north as 45, the Black Sea, the shores of the Red Sea, 

 Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan, etc. 



The Indo-Malay region is divided into the Himalo-Chinese 

 sub-region, which includes the greater portion of Southern 

 China, Burmah, Siam, and the mountainous portions of Hin- 

 dustan, Ceylon, Malaya, and Sumatra. 



The Malayan region includes the lowlands of Malaya, Su- 

 matra, and Borneo. 



It is a remarkable fact, as compared with North America, 

 that the zoological provinces of Asia are bounded by paral- 

 lels of latitude, and extend continuously from east to west, 

 instead of being bounded by degrees of longitude. This is 

 probably mainly owing to the general direction of the great 

 mountain regions, especially that of the Himalayas, from east 

 to west instea'd of north and south. Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 



SUGGESTED INTRODUCTION OF THE ROOK INTO THE UNITED 



STATES. 



Rev. F. O. Morris, in a letter addressed to the London 

 Times upon the subject of the threatened invasion of Great 

 Britain by the Colorado potato beetle, makes a sensible sug- 

 gestion for the consideration of the people of the United 

 States, which is worth bearing in mind on the part of our ac- 

 climatization societies. He thinks that if the rook were in- 

 troduced into the United States it would have a very posi- 



