1899] FLORA OF SAND DUNES n 



regard to the movement of dunes have their correlatives in this 

 country. In this as in other ways the paper claims as much attention 

 from European students as from those in America. The author 

 suggests the problem offered by the presence of so many maritime and 

 salt-loving species along the shores of a fresh-water lake, but reserves 

 his explanation for a future paper, where he will particularly consider 

 the oecological adaptations of the plants. The paper is profusely 

 illustrated by process-blocks from photographs which, although they 

 have undoubtedly suffered in reproduction, yet add greatly to the 

 interest and value of the work, and aid in rendering it one of the 

 most important oecological studies which has yet appeared in the 

 United States. 



Galway Natural History Museum. 



We have from time to time given accounts of local museums, and 

 our contemporary the Irish Naturalist, following our example, has in 

 its June number a description of the Natural History Museum, 

 Queen's College, Galway, by Prof. E. J. Anderson. From this 

 interesting account we select two paragraphs : — 



"Metropolitan museum authorities have sought to give a natural 

 character to their collections, which one seeks for in vain amongst the 

 average stuffed animals with their sleepless eyes and too cowering or 

 too rigid pose. The example so well set has been followed here. 

 One case represents a tug-of-war between an owl and a stoat, the 

 rope is represented by a rat. Another shows the platypus at home 

 with the avenues to his burrow by water and land ; a third shows a 

 peregrine and a slain rabbit ; a fourth, a number of water birds with 

 scenery ; a fifth, the hornbill at home ; a sixth, a fox interested in 

 a woodcock ; a seventh, an owl giving portions of a dead bird to its 

 young ; and eighth, a stoat with water birds, water, a dace, and a 

 water - beetle ; a ninth — a spicier with a humming bird in his 

 clutches." 



" Proximity to the sea makes it possible to secure quite a number 

 of living specimens. ... I note on a window, as I write, a good 

 many invertebrate types, living and well, sea-anemones and starfish, 

 nereids and periwinkles, crabs and tunicates, crickets and spiders. In 

 one tank are frogs and fresh-water mussels, in another tadpoles." 



Botanical Biography. 



We are glad to note the issue as a separate publication of the first 

 supplement to Messrs. Britten & Boulger's Biographical Index of British 



