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Students of the Foraminifera will be glad to learn that the Societe de 

 Naturalistes de Kieiv (Kieff), Russia, have decided to publish a continuation of 

 Sherborn's Bibliography of the Foraminifera, from 1888-98. The compilation 

 has been undertaken by Dr. Paul Tutkovski, whose work on the "Russian 

 tertiary and cretaceous Foraminifera is well known, and who has been in frequent 

 communication with Mr. Sherborn and other workers. We may therefore look 

 forward to a full and complete additional list which will be of much service and 

 value. 



The fifth year of the Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, 

 Palaeontology, Petrology, and Mineralogy, that for 1897, has just appeared. It 

 forms the 156th Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey and is compiled 

 by Fred Broughton Weeks. There are 742 separate titles which are placed in 

 alphabetical order under authors, and these titles are analysed in 40 pages of 

 index. The whole forms a compact and handy Bibliography in an inexpensive 

 and practically useful form. 



Science Progress : a Monthly Review of current Scientific Investigation, 

 changed some time ago into a quarterly, and now, to the considerable loss of 

 its writers and readers, disappears from the scene. Instead, there enters 

 Science Work : a Monthly Review of Scientific Literature, published by Robert 

 Aikman and Company, Manchester, and edited by Waller Jeffs. This is to 

 afford a practical guide to publications in the English language on all branches 

 of natural and social science. The subscription is three shillings a year ; if 

 prepaid, half-a-crown, post free. It will doubtless prove useful to those who 

 wish to know what is appearing in the magazines. May we express a hope 

 that our next fellow-worker in this held will choose a title less reminiscent of 

 Natural Science : a Monthly Review of Scientific Progress ? 



Mr. Wilfrid Mark Webb has given up the editorship of the Journal of 

 Malacology, as well as his position under the Essex County Council, and has 

 removed from Brentwood to 2 The Broadway, Hammersmith. He is tem- 

 porarily engaged on work at the museum of Eton College. The Journal of 

 Malacology passes again into the hands of Mr. W. E. Collinge and also becomes 

 in part the organ of the Midland Malacological Society, which was founded on 

 July 7, 1898, with Mr. Collinge as president, and Mr. H. Howard Bloomer 

 as secretary. The first number of vol. vii. of the Journal was issued on 

 December 2. It contains " Descriptions of a New Species of Cryptosoma (C. 

 austeni)," by W. E. Collinge ; a reprint of the description, with figures, of 

 "Species of Plectopylis recently described in Science Gossi])," which does not 

 give the dates of the original publication, an unfortunate omission considering the 

 vagaries that have from time to time affected the issue of our estimable contem- 

 porary. The Bibliography of current Malacological literature is now restricted 

 " to books and papers sent in by their respective authors, and those of special 

 interest in the current magazines, etc." There is much virtue in an "etc." 



We have received Volume xi. of the Memorias y Revista de la Sociedad 

 Cientifica Antonio Alzate, including a new theory of respiration, by Prof. 

 A. L. Herrera and Dr. D. Vergara Lope ; a description of the volcanoes 

 Colima and Ceboruco, by E. Ordonez ; a case of pulmonary tuberculosis 

 cured by the action of rarefied air, by D. Vergara Lope; Metamorphoses 

 of Papilio daunus and note on the staminal dimorphism of Solarium cornutum, 

 with a plate, by L. G. Seurat ; seismic observations made at Orizaba in 

 1895, by C. Mottl ; albinism in the squirrel, with plate, by A. Duges ; the 

 origin of individuals : the construction of the organism through internal 

 conditions, by A. L. Herrera ; seismic study of Central and South America, 

 by F. de Montessus de Ballore. 



Mr. F. H. Perry-Coste publishes in the December number of Nature Notes 

 an interesting account of Philip Miller, " Gardener to the Worshipful Company 



