'Miscellany, Book Notices, etc. 287 



Department of the interior. United States Geological and Geo- 

 graphical survey of the Territories. F. V. Haydcu, U. S. Geologist 

 in charge. Bulletin No. 2, second series containing : I. Monograph 

 of the genus Xeucosiicfe (Swainson) ; or gray crowned purple finches 

 by Robert Ridgeway. II. The cranial and dental characters of Geo- 

 mydw by Dr. Elliott Coues. III. Relations of insectivorous mammals 

 by Theodore Gill. IV. Report on ihe natural history of the United 

 States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 1874, 

 by Ernest Ingersoll. Bulletin No. 3, containing topographical and 

 geological report on the San Juan Country. Bulletin No. 4, contain- 

 ing "Notes on the Surface features of the Colorado or Front Range 

 of the Rocky Mountains," by F. V. Hayden. " Tertiary Physojmla 

 of Colorado" by Samuel H. Scudder. And "Outlines of a natural 

 arrangement of the Falconidse" by Robert Ridgeway. Miscellaneous 

 publications, No. 1, giving a list of elevations ; and Miscellaneous 

 publications, No. 6, giving Meteorological observations. 



Geographical explorations and surveys west of the 100th ]\Ieridian. 

 First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, corps of engineers in charge. Systematic 

 catalogue of Vertebrata of the Eocene of New Mexico, collected in 

 1874, by E. D. Cope, A. M. paleontologist. 



The Native Races of the Pacific States. By Hubert Howe Bancroft. Vol. II, 

 Civilized Nations. D. Appleton & Co., N. Y., Publishers. Price $5 50. 



Mr. Bancroft has already shown us enough to justify the warmest 

 praise of his work as a whole. Bringing to bear upon a large and 

 varied mass of materials, collected at great expense and labor in differ- 

 ent countries — a wise, painstaking and comprehensive discrimination — 

 he has evolved a work of lasting merit and exciting interest. His 

 book is not a mere encyclopedia of information concerning the early 

 , American races. The varied and varying phases of their life, man- 

 ners, customs, ideas, and surroundings are so fully and vividly depicted, 

 that the reader is led into their very spirit and reality. The faded 

 hues of the ancient civilization are again restored, and the figures, 

 instinct with life, move before the imagination in their accustomed 

 spheres, as parts of the unique system, which withered at the touch of 

 the Conquistadores, three centuries and a half ago. 



The present volume treats fully of the Maya and Nahua branches' 

 of aboriginal culture— the last being most fully known to us through 

 the Aztecs of ancient Mexico, although the Maya nations of Yucatan, 

 Chiapas and Gauteraala were more advanced in knowledge of arts and 

 general civilization. 



