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admirable gift-book for anyone interested in scientific studies. It is 

 well illustrated, and the subjects dealt with in popular language cover 

 a wide field in science, literature, and art. 



The first volume of the BibliorjrajjJiia Geologica, just issued by the 

 Geological Survey of Belgium, gives about 2000 titles of works and 

 articles in periodical reviews published in 1896-1897. The second 

 volume (in the press) will give, besides the complement of 1896-1897, 

 all published in 1898, at the time of the issue of this volume. 



Five more Lieferungen (30-34) of Simroth's new edition of the 

 Molluscan portion of Dr Bronn's " Klassen und Ordnungen des 

 Thier-Pteichs " are now out, and contain pp. 177-224, with plates 

 vi.-ix. The anatomy of the Prosobranchs is concluded, and the 

 principal features of the shell and operculum described, 



Mr A. CoTGREAVE, chief librarian of the West Ham Pulilic 

 Libraries, sends us sections 1 and 2 of "A Contents-Subject Index to 

 General and Periodical Literature." The sections are composed of 

 two small 8vo sheets, and deal with subjects from Aar Eiver to 

 Arromanches. There are 7 entries under 'Apples,' 3 under 

 ' Anglesey,' and 1 under * Apoplexy.' The only references to 

 'Ammonites' are Ewald's "History of Israel," and Gillett's "Ancient 

 Cities." We infer that the Index is intended merely as a help to 

 those who desire a superficial knowledge, e.g. leader-writers. 



FuRTHKK Literature Received. 



Introduction to Organic Chemistry, J. S. Wade : Swan Soniienschein. Phenomena 

 of Nature, James Walker : Swau Sonnenschein. Tutorial Chemistry, Part II. Metals, 

 J. H. Bailey : W. B. Clive. Lehrbuch der Verglcichenden Mikroskopische Anatomie 

 der Wirbelthiere, Albert Oppel : G. Fischer. Die Farnkriiuter der Erde, H. Christ : G. 

 Fischer. What is Life ? or Where are we ? Whence did we come ? and Whither do we 

 go ? Frederick Hovenden : Chapman & Hall. 



Presidential Address to the Conchological Society, J. Cosmo Melville. An 

 Unusual Phyto-bezoar, W. Trelease : Tranft. Acad. Sci. St Louis. Halticus 

 brartatus, F. M. Webster : Entom. JVeius. Present and Future of Applied Ento- 

 mology in America, F. M. Webster : Assoc. Econ. Entom. North American Lem- 

 naccae, C. H. Thomson : Ann. Rep. Miss. Bat. Gardens. Additional Notes on 

 the Turbellaria of the L.M.B.C. District, H. Lyster Jameson: Trans. L'pool. 

 Biol. Soc. List of Genei-ic and Family Names of Rodents, T. S. Palmer : Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. JFashington. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wctshimjlon, Vol. XL, pp. 241-282. Crustacea of 

 the Plankton, E. A. Birge : Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci. On the Plankton collected 

 continuously during two Traverses of the North Atlantic, etc., W. A. Herdmau, J. C. 

 Thompson, Andrew Scott : Trans. L'pool Biol. Soc. Bull. Inst. Internat. Bibliogr. On 

 Crystalline Structure in Gold and Platinum Nuggets and Gold Ingots, A. Liversidge : 

 Proc. Boy. Soc. JV.S. Wales. Records of the Australian Museum. Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Victoria, Vol. X. A Bibliography of Norfolk Glaciology, including the Cromer Cliffs 

 and Forest Bed Series, W. Jerome Harrison : Glacialists' Mag. Shooting Times, Jan. 15, 

 Do the Crystalline Gneisses Represent Portions of the Original Earth"s Crust, Joseph 

 Lomas : Geol. Mag. The Nortlr American Species of Diai.tonuis, F. W. Schacht : Bull. 

 Lllinois State Lab. Nat. Hist. Characters, Congenital and Acquired, G. Archdall Reid : 

 Science. Catalogue of British Birds in the Collection of Mr E. M. Connop, Rollesby 

 Hall, Norfolk, T. Southwell. 



Amer. Journ. Sci., Jan. ; Anier. Geol., Dec. ; Amer. Nat., Dec. ; Botan. Gaz., Dec. ; 

 Feuille des Jeunes Nat., Jan. ; Illinois Wes, Mag., Dec. ; Irish Nat., Jan. ; Journ. 

 School Geogr., Dec. ; Knowledge, Jan. ; Literary Digest, Dec. 18, 25, Jan. 1, 8, 15 j 

 Naturae Novit., No. 23 ; Naturalist, Jan. ; Nature, Dec. 2.3, 30, Jan. 6, 13, 20 ; 

 Nature Notes, Jan. ; Naturen, Dec. ; New Age, Dec. ; Photogram, Jan. ; Rivista 

 Quind. Psichologia, vol. i. fasc. 16; Revue Scientifique, Dec. 18, 25, Jan. 1, 8, 15; 

 Science, Dec. 10, 17, 24, 31, Jan. 7; Scientilic American, Dec. 11, 18, 25, Jan. 1; 

 Scot. Med. and Surg. Journ., Jan. ; Victorian Nat., Nov., Dec. ; Westminster Rev., 

 Jan. 



