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copious illustrations from Canadian examples render it particularly useful, as we 

 have generally to resort to British or American publications for scientific informa- 

 tion of an elementary character. The work opens with an outline of Physiological 

 Zoology, and an account of Zoological Classification, with divisions into Provinces 

 and Classes based upon the sj^stem of Cuvier ; the greater part of the volume is 

 occupied with illustrated descriptions of the leading divisions of Radiata, Mollusca 

 and Articulata. In an appendix is given an outline of the classification of Verte- 

 brata, and also valuable instructions for collecting and preserving invertebrate 

 animals. Should the present volume be well received — which we earnestly trust 

 will be the case — the author purposes completing the work by another on the 

 Vertebrata. 



The Canada Bool-seller: A Quarterly Record of British, American and Native 

 Literature, for the use of the trade and book-buyers : published by Adam, Steven- 

 son & Co., Toronto. March, 1870 (50 cents per annum). "We beg to commend 

 to our book-buying and book-loving friends this beautifully printed venture of a 

 most enterprising Canadian firm. It contains much interesting matter relating to 

 the trade, and full information respecting recent or forthcoming publications by 

 Canadian, British and Foreign houses. It is certainly one of the best specimens 

 of typography ever issued in this country. 



The American Entomologist. Yol. ii. No. 5. March, 1870. In addition to 

 the usual supply of varied and interesting matter, including several contributed 

 articles, the Editor of this valuable periodical presents us with an admirable steel- 

 plate portrait of his late esteemed coadjutor, Benj. D. "Walsh. 



Second Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other Insects of the 

 State of Missouri. By Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist. Jefferson City : 

 H. "Wilcox, 1870. Much of the matter contained in this valuable Report has very 

 naturally appeared already in the pages of the American Entomologist, of which the 

 Author is now sole Editor, and is therefore not entirely new to us ; it is a great 

 convenience, however, to have the matter thus collected together in moderate 

 compass and in a systematic form, while to those who do not see the Magazine, 

 and who yet are interested in the economic study of insects, the treatise must be 

 invaluable. It is illustrated by about a hundred excellent wood-cuts, and contains 

 accounts of the Chinch Bug, the Army "Worms, Tortoise-Beetles, the Pickle 

 Worm, Insects injurious to the grape-vine, the Canker-"Worm, Cabbage "Worms, 

 etc. The following new species of insects are described and figured in the course 

 of the volume: — Diptera, Exorista fiavicauda, and Asilus Missouriensis ; Lepi- 

 doptera, Plusia drassicce, and Acronycta populi. 



TJie Bowdoin Scientific Review. A fortnightly Journal, edited by Professors 

 Brackett & Goodale, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and devoted chiefly to 

 Chemistry and Physiology. 



Tic enty -second Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State 

 of New Yorl; on the condition of the State Cabinec of Natural History. Albany 



1869 (from Mr. J. A. Lintner). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 



History. Vol. xiii., pages 193 to 224 Hardwiclce's Science Gossip. No. 63, 



March, 1870. Nature. Nos. 10 to 21.- — -Lc Naturaliste Canadien, Vol. 



