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of his notes on the ItaHan Tertiary forms, dealing with the Frondicu- 

 lariae and Cristellariae in particular. He figures a large series of the 

 compressed varieties of the C. cymha group. In a single sheet, 

 privately printed, Fornasini describes Lagena felsinea, an entosoleni- 

 form Lagena, in which the test is botelloid and the aperture lateral. 



Besides these recent papers, there are two which we:"e published 

 in 1892 by Jaroslav Perner, of Prague, which appear to have escaped 

 notice on account of their inaccessibility. The first is " Predbezny 

 kriticky seznam Foraminifer z brezenskych vrstev," and was 

 published in Vestnik Kvakovske Ceshe Spol. Nauk, 1892, at Prague, 

 This is an account of the forms found in the Priesener Beds of the 

 Bohemian Chalk, and is valuable for comparison with Reuss's list of 

 the same district, and with those of other Chalk deposits. The other 

 paper is entitled " Ueber die Foraminiferen des bohmischen Ceno- 

 mans," and will be found in the quarto publications of the Ceska 

 Ahadeviie Cisare Fvantiska Josefa (Trida ii.) under the Czech title, 

 " Foraminifery Ceskeho Cenomanu." With this paper are published 

 a series of ten excellent plates, which contain a number of valuable 

 sections. The author has evidently been handicapped by the absence 

 of previous literature in Prague, but in the future this want can easily 

 and willingly be supplied by his English colleagues. Borings of 

 parasitic organisms are shown in many of Perner's figures, and what 

 is apparently an aperture oi Ramulina is seen on pi. 5, fig. igh. 



Photograms. 



We are really indebted to the editors of The Photogram for sending 

 us their beautiful annual " Photograms of '95. A Pictorial and 

 Literary Record of the Best Photographic Work of the Year " 

 (Dawbarn & Ward, Ltd.). It contains beautiful examples of photo- 

 graphy, of half-tone process, and of printing. Especially are we 

 struck by the absurdly-named "Chemigraph " process, which consists 

 in printing two or three impressions from the same block — one in a 

 strong body colour, and the other or others in a pale tint, and very 

 slightly out of register. Some of the photograms from abroad are a 

 little older than the title of the volume warrants — at least, the pretty 

 pictiue of some Japanese women on the balcony of a tea-house in 

 Tokio has a familiar aspect. " The photographic study of animal life 

 has," we are told, "been greatly advanced. A. G. Wallihan and his 

 wife in Colorado, and W. H. Wright in Montana, have added con- 

 siderably to their invaluable studies of the fast-disappearing native 

 fauna of the United States ; and J. Turner-Turner has published his 

 intensely interesting records of hunting, trapping, and natural history 

 in Canada." In our own country, not to mention Mr. Gambler 

 Bolton, some of the chief workers are R. B. Lodge and R. and C. 

 Kearton, who have devoted themselves to birds and their nests. 

 Workers in natural science will also be glad to hear of the cyclograph, 

 an instrument invented by A. H, Smith, of the British Museum, to 

 take a view all round a circular object. We wish that we could treat 

 of some of the photograms, such as E. Calland's wonderfully composed 

 and lighted " Brompton Road — Late Afternoon," F. H. Evans' restful 

 and exquisite " Stairway in Lincoln Cathedral," or " Harvesting 

 Osiers," by A. J. Jeffreys. This our scope does not permit, but we 

 should be failing in our duty did we not inform the bewildered critic 

 that the "streak of light in the centre of" C. Millard's "After 

 Lessons " is clearly a microscope tube, which interpretation is con- 

 firmed by the condenser alongside. In short, this is a well written, 

 well illustrated, and cheap two shillings-worth. 



