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medicine, and the inculcation of the value of the comparative method, not in 

 anatomy alone, but in physiology, pathology, embryology, and further. 



Nature for July G has an interesting review of the latest work on 

 Mammalian distribution : — " The Geography of Mammals," by W. L. and P. L. 

 Sclater, — a work which should also have been sent to Nat. Set. The review is 

 of particular interest because of the antithesis, half expressed, and half repressed, 

 between the reviewer's conclusions and those of the authors, an antithesis which 

 forcibly suggests the rapid progress in this department of zoology. 



Mr. L. L. Otler, a vice-president of the Selborne Society, proposes to have 

 published "The Naturalist's Calendar or Diary," kept by Gilbert White of 

 Selborne from January 1768 to June 1793 ; and subscriptions to this interesting 

 work may be addressed to A. J. Western, Secretary of the Selborne Society, 

 20 Hanover Square, W. The price to subscribers is 30s. a copy, to others 

 £2 : 2s. net. 



The Geological Survey of Belgium is about to publish a " universal repertory 

 of geological work," entitled " Bibliographia Geologica," edited by Michel 

 Mourlon, Directeur du Service geologique de Belgique, with the collaboration 

 of G. Simoens, D.Sc. 



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In Nature Notes for June is an article reprinted from the Standard news- 

 paper entitled the "Vanishing African Fauna," which, however, contains little, 

 if anything, that is not already recorded in Mr. Bryden's " Nature and Sport in 

 South Africa," on which work it is apparently, indeed, mainly based. 



Of more interest is a note in the same serial by Mr. R. Morley, calling- 

 attention to the very serious diminution in the numbers of a West African 

 Guercza Monkey (Colobus vellerosus), on account of the persecution to 

 which it is subjected for the sake of its beautiful and valuable skin. The 

 Government of the Gold Coast (which is the one concerned) should intervene 

 with a strong hand, and at once prohibit such destruction. 



