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and Surgery, in which the editor had the co-operation of a number of medical 

 men. The Review of Popular and General Science is by Dr. Taylor, the 

 well known editor of Science Gossip. This is followed by Reviews of Thera- 

 peutics, the new Materia Medica, Phychological Medicine, etc. etc. The 

 Practitioner's Index is edited by Dr. Percy Wilde. The whole work forms 

 a most valuable year book. 



Current IRotee anb fll^emoran^a♦ 



In addition to the Special Monthly Circular which we have 

 regularly received from Mr. W. P. Collins, of 157, Great Portland Street, he 

 has sent us his new Catalogue of Microscopical Literature, comprising almost 

 every known work in Microscopy, and a large selection of books relating to 

 Micro Natural History, more particularly Invertebrata and Cryptogamia. 



Educators will be interested in the announcement that D. C. 

 Heath and Co., of Boston, U.S.A., have in preparation a series of Mono- 

 graphs on Education. Number one of this series will be a Bibliography of 

 Pedagogical Liter attu-e^ carefully selected and annotated by Dr. G. Stanley 

 Hall, Professor of Psychology and Pedagogics, John Hopkins's University. 



The Biological Student will find the Syllabus of Instruction in 

 BiOLOGV, by Delos Fall, of Albion College, U.S.A., a great help to them in a 

 course of Biological studies. It gives instructions for the study of 16 type 

 forms of animals, and a less number of plants, ranging in each case from the 

 lowest to the highest forms. A large amount of instruction is compressed 

 into 24 pages. 



We learn from a newspaper just received from New Zealand, 

 that the First Annual Meeting of the Auckland Microscopical Society was held 

 April 1st. The Society appears to combine the double advantage of being a 

 Postal and a Local Society. Boxes of Slides, after the manner of the P.M.S., 

 are sent to members, and local meetings held during the winter. The Society 

 was originated by Mr. Thos. Steel, late of Greenock, whose name is still on 

 our books as a member of the P.M.S. We wish the Auckland Society every 

 success. 



John Weldon's Catalogue of Books, just received, contains a 

 very large assortment of Zoological Works, comprising — Ornithology, Mam- 

 malia, Anthropology, etc. 



The Annual Report of the Belfast Naturalists' Field 



Club contains Reports of Excursions, Presidential Address, and several papers 

 of much interest, among which is one by Dr. Malcolmson, on the Ostracoda 

 of Belfast Lough, and another by the Rev. H. W. Lett, on the Fungi of the 

 North of Ireland. Dr. Malcolmson's paper and several others are illustrated. 



Messrs. Hammond and Co. inform us that they hope to 

 publish the first part of STUDIES IN MICROSCOPICAL Science, "Vol. IV., on 

 the loth July (instant). 



