1896. SOME NEW BOOKS. 6t 



original photomicrographs. This first instahnent includes four 

 "studies": No. i, the flower of Clematis japonica, illustrated by 

 longitudinal and transverse sections through flower-buds ; No. 2, the 

 Dandelion, as typical of composite flowers, with similar sections 

 through the capitulum ; No. 3, the anthers of Eschscholtzia, with a 

 transverse section through the flower-bud ; and No. 4, the fruit of 

 the fig, with a longitudinal section through a portion of a young fig. 

 We have not seen the preparations, but the photos are good and bear 

 examination under a lens, and the explanatory letterpress is well 

 arranged and accurate. Busy teachers as well as students should 

 find this series helpful, and the price, 21s. per annum (8s. without the 

 preparations), is not exorbitant. 



New Serials. 



Under the title Quarterly Notes, the Geological Survey of India 

 has begun a new publication in folio. The three numbers received 

 consist of statements of the work accomplished during the quarters 

 ending January 31, April 30, and July 31, 1895. ^^^ had heard of 

 some difficulty as to the publication of further palaeontological results, 

 so we are the more glad to learn that series xvi. of PaUfontologia 

 Indica, consisting of reports by Fritz Noetling on the Jurassic and 

 Cretaceous faunas of Baluchistan, is now in the press. The price of 

 Quarterly Notes is not stated, nor is there any indication of the true 

 date of publication. 



The Geological Survey of Mexico have started a Boletin de la 

 Comision Geologica de Mexico. No. i contains 55 pages and 24 plates, 

 and discusses the mesozoic fossils of the Sierra de Catorce in San 

 Luis Potosi, 



Messrs. Juta, of Cape Town, announce the Scientific African, a 

 monthly journal of South African science, arts, and crafts, price 6d. 

 The November number, which was the first published, contained an 

 account of the Geological Survey of Cape Colony. In the December 

 number we note a portrait and account of Mr. A. Geddes Bain, the 

 discoverer of the wonderful fossil reptiles from South Africa. 



Terrestrial Magnetism, edited by Dr. L. A. Bauer, of the University 

 of Chicago, is a new quarterly announced for this month. 



Archiv fiir Anthropologie und Geologic Schlestcig-Holsteins nnd der 

 henachbarten Gebiete, 8vo, published by Lipsius and Tischer, in Kiel 

 and Leipzig, and edited, for anthropology, by Miss J. Mestorf, Director 

 of the Museum of Antiquities in Kiel, and, for geology, by Professor 

 H. Haas, of Kiel. The first part, price 4s., contains the beginning of 

 a long paper by E. Stolley, on the Cambrian and Silurian drift of 

 Schleswig-Holstein and its brachiopod fauna. 



Two important bibliographical works were begun in 1895. First, 

 Bibliographie des Travanx Scientifiques puhliees par les Societes savantes de la 

 France, 4to (Paris, E. Leroux, rue Bonaparte 28) ; price 5 francs for 

 a livraison of 200 pages ; it is compiled by Dr. J. Deniker, under the 

 auspices of the minister for public instruction, and contains a list of 

 the contents of all publications of French societies, so far as such con- 

 tents are of scientific nature. Secondly, Bibliotheca Geograpkica, pub- 

 lished by the Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde in Berlin, and containing the 

 list of current publications previously printed in the society's Zeitschrift. 

 The first volume, edited by O. Baschin, with the assistance of Dr. E. 

 Wagner, catalogues the geographical literature of 1891 and 1892. 

 Here, too, should be noticed the Bulletin of the newly founded Institut 

 International de Bibliographie (8vo, Bruxelles, 10 francs per annum), 

 which announces the preparation of a Bihliographia Geologica. 



