462 - NATURAL SCIENCE. Dec, 



Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. advertise a second edition of 

 Mr. Beddard's " Animal Coloration," which appears to be a simple 

 reprint without any further additions. 



Some Recent Journals and Pamphlets. 



On November i our contemporary Nature attained its twenty-fifth 

 birthday, and started its fift3'-first volume with a leader by Professor 

 Huxley, in which he points out the remarkable effect of Darwinism , 

 on Natural Science. Professor Huxley wrote the first article in 

 Nature when it first appeared as a weekly newspaper in 1870, and the 

 present editor has just cause to congratulate himself on the fact that 

 so distinguished a send-off has again been accorded to him. 



Another contemporary, the F eniUc des J ennes N aturalistes, also proudly 

 announces that it starts its twenty-fifth year of publication with 

 the November i number. We congratulate Mr. Adrien Dollfus on 

 the success which has crowned his energy and enthusiasm. Besides 

 a paper by the editor on the Idoteidae (Isopod Crustacea) of the 

 French coasts, there are others on the noxious insects of the Pines in 

 Champagne by R. Hickel, and a long account, by H. Hua, of the 

 recent Congress of the T^>otanical Society of France. 



The Geological Society has just issued the fourth part of the 

 fiftieth volume of its Quarterly Journal. It is a number of which any 

 society might be proud, and forms a fitting conclusion to the fifty 

 volumes that are to be indexed by the Society. The part consists 

 of eleven papers, illustrated by sixteen plates, of which no less than 

 six are exclusively palaeontological, and all this quite apart from the 

 " Additions to the Library," which forms the subject of a special 

 paragraph in our " Notes and Comments." Of the papers themselves 

 the most interesting, perhaps, are Dr. Gregory's observations on the 

 Glacial Geology of Mt. Kenya, in which he shows that the glaciation 

 has had a much greater extent formerly than now, and has in no 

 inconsiderable manner determined the geographical distribution of 

 animal and vegetable life. African geology is much to the fore, for 

 there is a long paper by Captain Lyons on the Libyan desert, and two 

 other papers by Mr. Draper on the Geology of South-Eastern 

 Africa. Petrology is represented by papers on the older fragmental 

 rocks of North-West Carnarvonshire, by Professor Bonney and Miss 

 Raisin ; on the structures of the Carboniferous Dolerites and Tuffs 

 of Derbyshire, by H. H. Arnold-Bemrose ; and on the banded 

 structure of Tertiary Gabbros in Skye, by Sir A. Geikie and 

 Mr. Teall. Some interesting plates accompany the two last- 

 mentioned papers. 



In Palaeontology, Mr. Peach writes on additions to the fauna of 

 the Olenelhis-zoue of the N.W. Highlands. This is a paper of the 

 greatest interest and value. After a few words as to the locality, Mr. 

 Peach describes the fossils, of which the following are new : Oknellus 

 reticulatus, O. gigas, 0. intermedins, and Olenelloides, a new genus with 

 species avmatns. Four beautiful plates by F. H. Michael illustrate 

 the paper. The second palaeontological contribution is that of 

 Frederick Chapman on the Microzoa of the Bargate Stone, a series 

 he has worked out, described with considerable care, and illustrated 

 with two plates. Seven of the Ostracoda and eleven of the 

 Foraminifera are described as new. Mr. Chapman notes that this 

 comparatively large number of new forms is due to the fact that the 

 Bargate series belong almost exclusively to the Laminarian and 



