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Among the articles in the Zoologist for November there is an interesting 

 diary by Edmond Selous concerning the habits of nightjars, and an account by 

 J. L. Monk of the spawning of Bombinator pachypus after two years of 

 captivity in England. 



Science Gossip for November contains, among other articles, the following : — 

 " On colouring of Birds' Eggs," by R. J. Hughes, and " On Armature of Helicoid 

 Land-shells," by G. K. Gude. There is also on p. 191 a suggestion well worthy 

 of consideration in regard to co-operative science collections. 



The Journal of the Institute of Jamaica (vol. ii. No. 6, issued 31st August 

 1899) contains much interesting matter, a large number of short historical 

 articles, e.g. " The Story of the Life of Columbus and the Discovery of Jamaica," 

 by the editor Mr. Frank Cundall, and many scientific papers, of which those by 

 Mr. J. E. Duerden, the enthusiastic and indefatigable curator of the museum, 

 may be especially noted. 



Rhodora for November has among its articles one on adventitious plants of 

 Drosera, by R. G. Leavitt, and one on the white blackberry, by A. M. Mitchell. 



We have also received the following : — 



On the physiological perception of musical tone. Being the seventh Robert 

 Boyle Lecture delivered before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club on 

 6th June 1899. By Prof. John Gray M'Kendrick, M.D. ; LL.D. ; F.R.SS. 

 L. and E. Pp. 65. London: Henry Frowde, 1899. Price one shilling net. 



A continuation of Aclocpie's " Faune de France," dealing with birds (pp. 87- 

 336, with 621 figures. Paris : Bailliere, 1899, price 5 francs), which sustains 

 the reputation of the previous volumes. 



Also a paper by Mr. A. C. Seward, previously noticed in our pages, " On 

 the Structure and Affinities of Matonia jtectinata, R. Br., with notes on the 

 geological history of the Matonineae," Phil. Trans. Series B, vol. cxci. 1899. 

 Pp. 171-209, 4 pis. Price 4s. 6d. 



The first Lancashire Sea-Fisheries memoir, " Oysters and Disease, an account 

 of certain observations upon the normal and pathological histology and bacteri- 

 ology of the oyster and other shell-fish," by Profs. W. A. Herdman and R. 

 Boyce. 4to, pp. 60, 8 pis. London : Philip and Son, 1899. Price 7s. 6d. net. 



"The Concilium Bibliographicum in Zurich and its work," by W. E. Hoyle, 

 M.A., and Clara Nordlinger of the Manchester Museum (which is proud to be 

 the possessor of the only complete set of the Zurich cards in England). The 

 paper is reprinted for private distribution from the Library Association Record, 

 November 1899; and it is hoped that it may do something to promote 

 increased appreciation of Dr. Field's self-sacrificing bibliographic energy. 



"Notes on the Binney Collection of Coal-measure Plants," by A. C. Seward, 

 M.A. Part I. deals with Lepidophloios, and Part II. with Megaloxylon gen. nov. 

 Froc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. x. 1899, pp. 137-174, 2 pis. and 5 figs. 



