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The authorities of the British Museum do not send out their " Catalogue of 

 Birds " for review, but we must notice the completion of this great undertaking 

 by the recent publication of volume xxvi. by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe and Mr. W. 

 R. Ogilvie Grant. This is really the twenty-seventh volume issued since the 

 work was begun twenty-five years ago. This catalogue, prepared by eleven 

 authors and edited by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, gives an account of 11,614 species 

 belonging to 2255 genera and 124 families. Such additions and corrections as 

 may be necessary will be published in supplementary volumes. 



The Geological Society of London has undertaken the publication of the 

 manuscript in its possession of a portion of the third volume of Hutton's " Theory 

 of the Earth." This volume, edited by Sir Archibald Geikie, will be printed in 

 the style of the first and second volumes of the same work, and will contain about 

 300 pages. It will be issued in paper covers. The price to the public is 

 3s. Gd., and as only a limited number will be issued, intending purchasers 

 should apply at once to the Secretary. 



As No. 25 of its publications, the Geological Survey of Norway has issued 

 a geological map, with description by K. O. Bj^rlykke, of Christiania and 

 environs. This reproduces in more popular form the recent researches of 

 Kjerulf and Br0gger, and may be of some use to the geologically-minded 

 tourist. This Survey has also issued an account of its exhibits at Bergen in 

 1898, with which are combined articles of more permanent value on the 

 Geological survey, the mining, and stone industry of Norway. 



The first number of Science Work, the advent of which was noted in Natural 

 Science for January, is chiefly noticeable for its list " of the leading contents of 

 recent scientific magazines and periodicals"; the list is classified under the 

 various sciences. For some reason the names of most of our own contributors 

 are misspelled ; indeed misprints of like nature are not rare throughout. 

 Useful features are the first instalments of a " Directory of Local Societies " 

 and a "Directory of Lecturers." The editor, Mr. Waller Jeffs, evidently means 

 to make this new venture as successful as his firmly established journal, 

 Business. 



In the Verhandlungen der russischen mineralogischen GeseUschaft, 1898, Bd. 

 xxxv. pp. 1-54, Th. Tschernyschew has a paper on the fossil sponges from the 

 Permo-Carboniferous (Artinsk) and Carboniferous beds of the Ural and Timan. 

 The paper, which is in German, is well illustrated by five plates and many 

 figures in the text, mostly photographic. The sponges belong to the genera 

 Pemmatites, Kazania, Haplistion (?), and Stuckenhergia, the last being new. 

 In the sponge-fauna, as well as in other characters, the author finds a resem- 

 blance between the Artinsk beds and the upper horizon of the Permo-Carbon- 

 iferous rocks of Spitzbergen, the Prodiictus-he&ving chert. 



The Palaeontographical Society's volume for the year 1898 has just been 

 issued, and contains — The "Palaeozoic Phyllopoda," Part III., by Professor T. 

 Rupert Jones and Dr. H. Woodward, with 8 plates ; the " Carboniferous 

 Lamellibranchiata," Part III., by Dr. Wheelton Hind, with 10 plates; the 

 " Inferior Oolite Ammonites," Part X. (Supplement No. I.), by Mr. S. S. Buck- 

 man, with 4 plates ; the "Carboniferous Cephalopoda of Ireland," Part II., by 

 Dr. A. H. Foord, with 10 plates ; the "Devonian Fauna of the South of Eng- 

 land," Vol. III. Part III., by the Rev. G. F. Whiclborne, with 17 plates. The 

 volume for 1899 is in preparation, and will contain the commencement of a 

 new monograph on the " Mollusca of the Cretaceous Formations," by H. 

 Woods. 



