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its annual form for general reference. Naturae Novitatcs provides 

 moreover a regular and important collection of Personalia as regards 

 appointments and deaths. 



The second part of vol. i. of the Records of the Botanical Survey 

 of India contains a paper on the results of Lieut. E. Pottinger's 

 journey through Myitkyina, Burmah. There is a complete list of 

 the phanerogams and vascular cryptograms and a map. Many 

 orchids are recorded. 



The re-issue of Stanford's " Compendium of Geography " will be 

 completed in 1899. Vol. i., by Geo. C. Chisholm, is complete, and 

 contains the birth of the mainland of Europe. Vol. ii. will include 

 the British Isles, Scandinavia, Denmark, and the Low Countries, and 

 is already advanced. Other volumes, to contain Central and South 

 America, are in the hands of Sir Clements Markham and A. H. 

 Keane. 



The Annual Progress Report of the Geological Survey of Western 

 Australia for 1897 has just reached us, in the contorted and un- 

 manageable condition usual with these official publications. The 

 report consists of 66 pages and no less than seven valuable maps 

 (Northampton, Peak Hills, Horseshoe Diggings, Bunbury, Kanowna, 

 Coolgardie, and Artesian Bores in the vicinity of Perth), all of which 

 have accompanying text. 



Our interesting contemporary The Journal of School Geography 

 includes among the varied contents of its October number an illus- 

 trated article by G. K. Gilbert on the " Origin of the Physical Features 

 of the United States," reprinted from the National Geographic 

 Magazine for July. There is also a useful note by A. J. Herbertson, 

 defining the various terms Britain, Great Britain, England, &c. 



Further Literature Keceived. 



Aids in Practical Geology, Cole : Griffin, Loudon. Text-book of Botany, Vines : 

 Sonnenscheirj, London. Text-book of Mineralogy, Dana: AViley, New York. Cytologic 

 experimentale, Labbe : Carre & Naud, Paris. Allgemeiue Biologie, I., Protoplasma, 

 Kassowitz : Perles, Wien. Pflanzen-geographie, Schimper : Fiscber, Jena. From 

 Matter to Man, De-war : Cbapman & Hall, London. 



Studies from Yale Psychol. Lab., vol. v. Report Australian Museum, 1897. Corn- 

 wall County Council, Report Fisheries. Study of the development of the Tuatara, 

 Denby : Proc . Roy. Soc. Relations between marine animal and vegetable life, Vernon : 

 Mitt. Zool. Stat. Nccqicl. Birds from Sierra Nevada de Sta Marta, Bangs : Proc. Biol. 

 Soc, Washington. Ruins of Xkichmook, Thompson: Field Columbian Mus. Publ., 28. 

 Half-century of Evolution, Packard : Proc. Amer. Assoc. Report on Chillagoe mining 

 district, Jack: Geol. Surv., Queensland. Relations between Hybrid and Parent forms 

 of Echinoid. Larvae, Vernon : Phil. Trans. 



Amer. Geol., Jan., Feb., March, Nov. ; Amer. Joum. Sci., Oct. ; Amer. month. 

 Micr. Joum., Sept., Oct. ; Amer. Nat., Oct. ; Bolletino del Naturalista, 10; Botan. 

 Gazette, Oct. ; Feuille des jeunes Nat., Nov. ; Irish Nat., Nov., Oct, ; Scot., Geogr. 

 Mag., Nov.; Timehri, XII., 1 ; Trans. Perthshire Soc. , II., 6 ; Victorian Nat., Sej>t. and 

 Oct. ; Westminster Rev., Nov. ; Joum. Conchol., Oct. (vol. ix., No. 4 ; Joum. 

 School. Geogr., Oct., Nov. ; Knowledge, Nov. ; Literary Digest, Oct., 8, 15, 22, 29, 

 Nov. 5; Naturae Novit, Oct., No. 18, 19, 20; Naturaleza (Mexico) (2) II., III. ; 

 Naturalist, Nov. ; Nature, Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17 ; Nature Notes, Nov. ; Naturen, 

 Oct.-Nov. ; Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, XL, 1 ; Plant World, Oct.; Psychol. Rev., Nov. ; 

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 Sc. Nat., Nov. -Dec; Science, Oct. 7, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11 ; Scientific Amer., Oct. 8, 15, 

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