1898] SOME NEW BOOKS 61 



l'.IBLIOGRAPHICAL 



The Catalogue of the United States Public Documents, which is 

 issued monthly by the Superintendent of Documents at the Govern- 

 ment Printing Office, Washington, gives in its January issue (No. 37) 

 a partial list of United States Government publications on Alaska. 

 This should be of value to many besides those who are making their 

 way to Klondike. 



The Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, vol. iii., 

 in its complete form, is just to hand, 1 tearing date 1st February 1898. 

 It is made up, as usual, of various parts, which were issued separately 

 at the dates borne upon their several title-pages. The volume contains 

 a great deal of important information on the geology of South Africa, 

 and gives a map of the Klerksdorp goldfields, to accompany Air 

 Bawden's paper thereon. We note from the President's address that 

 the Society has been so fortunate as to secure Prof. Eupert Jones' 

 unique and valuable collection of books, pamphlets, maps, etc., on the 

 geology of the Colony, and thus is enabled to found a library under 

 conditions which few colonies have enjoyed. A commendable addition 

 to the present volumes is the " Complete Index to all Papers pub- 

 lished from 1st February 1895 to 1st February 1898," and we hope 

 that librarians will not tear it up and throw it away because it is part 

 of a wrapper. The wrapper has often proved to be the most essential 

 part of a serial publication, and should never be destroyed, but left 

 absolutely intact and in place as issued, when the volume is bound. 



We have received from Messrs Dulau & Co. sections 50-52 of their 

 " ( atalogue of Zoological and Palaeontological works." These sections 

 consist of 48 pages, dealing with the literature of Diptera, Hemiptera, 

 and Hymenoptera. 



Further Literature Received 



Catalogue of Welwitseh Collection, Part II., Hiorn : British Museum. Priming- 

 book Bailey ; Text-book of Entomology, Packard: Macmillan Co., N.Y. Die Zelle 

 and die Gewebe, 0. Hertwig ; Grundriss d. vergleichende Anatomie d. Wirbeltbiere, 

 Wiedersheim : Fischer, Jena. Practical Plant-Physiology, Detmer transl. Moor ; The 

 Wonderful Century, Wallace: Sonnenschein. Types of Scenery, Romanes Lecture, 

 A. Geikie : Macmillan, London. Medical Missions, Acland : Frowde, London. Text- 

 book of Zoology, Wells & Davis : Univ. Tutorial Series, Clive, London. 



A propos de l'Eglise et de la Science, Errera. Ratzel's History of Mankind, Part 26. 

 Cotgreave's Subject-Index, 11-14. Le protoplasma radio-conducteur, Morin : Vopinion 

 mMieale. La pisciculture pratique, Baudouin : Bull. Soc. Pec/ic France. Jamaica 

 Fisheries, Duerden : Daily Gleaner. Root-tubercules, Otis: Industrialist. Obsidian 

 "buttons" in Tasmania, Twelvetrees & Petterd : Proc. E. Soc. Tasmania. The Cubo- 

 Medusae, Conant: Mem. Biol. /"/.. Johns Hopkins. Birds from St Marta, Bangs; 

 Squirrels from Mexico, Nelson: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. Simple Ascidians from 

 Puget Sound, Herdman : Trims. L' pool Biol. Soc. Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii., parts 

 9, 10, G. 0. Sars ; Bergen Museum. Catal. de la Bibliotheque, Fasc. xxiv. : Feuille 

 j< unes Nats. 



Scot. Geogr. Mag., June; Amer. Journ. Sci., June; Amer. Nat., April ; Victorian 

 Nat., April, May; L Anthropologic, March and April; Botan. Gazette, May ; Feuille 

 des jeunes Nat., June ; Irish Nat., June ; Westminster Rev., June ; Knowledge, June ; 

 Literary Digest, May 21, 28, June 4 ; Naturae Novit., March, Nos. 5, 6, April, Nos. 7, 8, 

 May, Nos. 9, 10 ; Naturalist, June ; Nature, May 19, 26, June 2, 16, and Supplement ; 

 Nature Notes, June ; Naturen, May ; New Age, April ; Oxford Univ. Jr. Sci. Club 

 Trans.. May 4, 1896, No. 37, June 1897, N.S. 1897-98, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 ; Photogram, June ; 

 Plant World, May, June ; Psychol. Rev., Monogr. Supplement, May, June ; Review of 

 Reviews, .May, June ; Revue Scient., May 21, 28, June 4, 11 ; Science, May 13, 20, 27, 

 June 3; Riv. Psichologia, May 15, 31 ; Scientific Amer., May 14, 21, 28, June 4 ; 

 Scot. Med. and Surg. Journ., June. 



