lsivsj SOME NEW HOOKS :340 



18G1. Mr S. W. Kain has a paper on New Brunswick earthquakes. 

 Mr John Moser deals with the mosses, Philip Cox with the batrachia, 

 W. F. Ganong with the natural history and physiography, and G. F. 



Matthew describes recenl discoveries in the San John Group. A 

 bibliography of scientific publications relating to New Brunswick is 



contributed by S. W. Kain. 



No. 30 of the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society contains a paper by H. W. Ridley on the birds in the Botanic 

 ({aniens, Singapore, one by the same author on plants of the genus 

 Peliosanthes of the Malay Peninsula, and yet another on the White 

 Snake of the Salangor Caves, Coluber taeniurus. Some valuable papers 

 on Malay Magic, Folk Lore, the game of Chap Ji Ki, and the oldest 

 Malay MS. now extant, make up a substantial and creditable journal. 



The Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey have started 

 a series of Bulletins. No. 1 is by Filibert Roth, special agent of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, and is on the forestry con- 

 ditions of Northern AVisconsin. There is a map. No. 2, by Geo. W. 

 and Elizabeth G. Peckham, is entitled " Instincts and habits of Solitary 

 Wasps," and is a volume of 24*5 pp., and 14 plates. We hope to refer 

 to these again later. 



These Bulletins are to form three series — Scientific, Economic, and 

 Educational. Mr Roth's paper belongs to the second series, and is to 

 be followed by one on the building stones of Wisconsin by E. R. 

 Buckley ; the wasp paper belongs to the first series, and is to be 

 followed by Geology of the Pre-Cambrian igneous rocks of the Fox 

 River Valley by S. Weidman ; the three first papers in the Educa- 

 tional series will be Collie's Physiography of Southern Wisconsin, 

 Salisbury's Physical Geography and Geology of the dells of the Wis- 

 consin and the Devil's Lake, and Cheney's forest trees of Wisconsin. 

 The Wisconsin Survey was only established in 1897, and is under the 

 direction of Mr. E. A. Birge, Madison, Wis. 



The Boletim de Museu Paraense for June contains a plan of the 

 Museum of Para and attached Botanical Gardens, with a description 

 by Dr E. Goeldi. Dr J. Huber contributes materials for an Ama- 

 zonian flora, Dr C. F. Hartt continues his notes on some inedited 

 works of the Geological Commission of Brazil, and Dr Huber writes 

 on Vochysia (lochia, a new species of the Ferrugineae. Photographs 

 of Hymenaea Courbaril, L. and Crudya Parivoa, De C, are also given. 



The Naturalist for I )ctober contains an account of an ancient Lake- 

 dwelling at Sand-le-Mere, near Withernsea, E. Yorkshire, by Thos. 

 Sheppard. The Rev. W. C. Hey gives a list of Bird names in use at 

 West Ayton, Yorkshire, and there are some interesting notes from 

 the Churchwarden's accounts of Terrington concerning the killing of 

 polecats, which have been extracted by John Wright. 



The Irish Naturalist for October includes a paper by Dr C. J. 

 Patten, on the birds of Dublin Hay. In La Feuille des Jewries 

 Naturalistes Fournier concludes his paper on the Jura Chain and 

 Eugene Simon concludes his revision of the genera of Humming- 

 birds. In the Journal of the Limerick Field Club, Part II., there is 

 a paper by Dr W. A. Foggerty on the Flora of the Limerick district. 

 As it is full of misprints and includes enough rarities of the Irish 

 flora to cause a pilgrimage, it is but fair to say that Dr Foggerty is 



