1896. SOME NEW BOOKS. 35 1 



L' Anthvopologie for January and February contains a paper of 

 considerable interest to botanists by Edouard Piette, " Les Plantes 

 cultivees de la Periode de Transition au Mas-d'Azil," which place is 

 on the River Arise. 



A short sketch of the history, geography, and industries of 

 Venezuela is to be found in the Scottish Geographical Magazine for 

 April, which also contains an interesting paper by James Troup, 

 H.B.M. Consul at Yokohama, on the industrial and commercial 

 development of Japan. Very timely also is a long account of Cuba 

 extracted from the articles by Dr. Emil Deckert that have recently 

 been published in the Geographische Zeitschvift. 



In connection with the acceptance by Dr. J. M. Coulter of the 

 head professorship of Botany at Chicago University, the financial 

 management of the Botanical Gazette, of which he is senior editor, 

 passes into the hands of that body. The immediate result is an 

 increase in number of pages, and after July the Gazette will be 

 published at the University of Chicago, whither all correspondence 

 should now be addressed. The editorial staff is unchanged. The 

 Gazette will be " even more freely open to the botanists of the world 

 than it has been in the past." Its prosperity, as well as its excellence, 

 is now assured. 



The April number of Knowledge contains a thoroughly practical 

 article by J. W. Gifford, entitled " Electrography or the New Photo- 

 graphy," which has some excellent reproductions of electrographs, 

 actinograms, or skiagrams. Other skiagrams are reproduced in the 

 American Naturalist for March, in the Photogram for April, in Nature for 

 January 23, February 6, and March 5, in the Revue Scientifiqae 

 February i, and in the Revue Generate des Sciences Jannary 30; but 

 perhaps some of the best are those that were given in The Open Court 

 for February 6 and March 12. 



Messrs. Williams & Norgate have kindly sent us their Foreign 

 Book Circular, Scientific Series, no. 63. It is stated to be a "list of 

 new scientific publications," and contains 572 titles. Since, however, 

 fully half the pubhcations seem to be older than 1895, and since no 

 reference is made to the fact that many of them are merely extracts 

 from serials, we cannot think that the hst will be of much use to 

 either librarians or working naturalists. 



From the Free Public Reference Library of Nottingham we 

 receive the third supplement to the list of scientific books and 

 periodicals, compiled, under the direction of J. Potter Briscoe, by 

 S. J. Kirk, senior assistant, price id. From this and previous lists it 

 appears that the library contains a very useful selection of scientific 

 works, especially rich in those relating to the neighbourhood. No 

 foreign scientific periodicals are placed on the tables, and we notice 

 in this list scarcely any books published outside Great Britain. 



Literature Received. 



Primary Factors of Organic Evolution, E. D. Cope : Open Court, Chicago. Britisli Sea- 

 Birds, C. Dixon: Bliss, Sands & Foster. Ethnology, A. H. Keane : Clay. Natural History of 

 Selborne, G. White : Ginn (Boston). Royal Natural History, nos. xxix., xxx. 



Iowa Geological Survey, vol. v.; Administrative Reports. Catalogue de Botanique: Bailliere. 

 The Jack Rabbits, T. S. Palmer: Bui!. U.S. Dcpt. Agric. Australian Termitidaj, pt. i., W. W. Frog- 

 eatt: Proc. Lin. Soc. N.S.W. Annual Report Geol. Survey Great Britain, 1895. Physiology of the 

 Root Tubers of Isopyrum biternatum, D. T. MacDougall : Minn. Bot. Studies. 



Actes Soc. Sci. Chili, t. v. Science Progress, April. Micros. Studies in Botany, March. 

 Nature, March 19, April 9, 16. Knowledge, April. Review of Reviews, April. Revue Scientitque, 

 March 21, 28, April 4, ii. Irish Naturalist, April. Revue generale des Sciences, Feb. 29, March 15. 

 Feuille des jeunes Naturalistes, April. Naturen, March. American Journal of Science, April. 

 Journal of Malacology, vol. v., no. i. Natural Novitates, March. Victorian Naturalist, Jan. and Feb. 

 Science, March 13, 20, 27, April 3. Scottish Geographical Magazine, April. Science Gossip, Jan. 

 The Naturalist, April. Westminster Review, April. American Geologist, April. Botanical Gazette, 

 March. Biology Notes, March. Scientific African, March. Psychological Review, Feb. The 

 Photogram, March and April. 



