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larger size. The aims of the American Naturalist appear, from an 

 editorial note, to remain very much what they were before. They are 

 precisely the same as those of Natural Science, and although we cannot 

 fail to miss the guiding hand and original criticisms of the late 

 Prof Cope, we trust that the new editors of the Naturalist may 

 be more successful than ourselves in approaching their ideal. The 

 number in question begins well with a Synopsis of Eecent Progress in 

 the Study of Graptolites by Dr Pt. Euedemann. 



The new " Geological literature added to the Geographical Society's 

 Library during the year ended 31st December 1897" is a bulky 

 volume of 196 pp. As this is published at two shillings, and as the 

 Geological Society gets a large proportion of the publications on 

 geology during any given year, one has practically a " Geological 

 Eecord " for quite a trifling sum. Moreover, as ninety pages out of 

 the one hundred and ninety-six are allowed for an index to the titles 

 appearing in the first half, our readers can readily understand the 

 value of such a publication. We think a word of thanks is due to the 

 assistant librarian for his compilation, a second to the assistant secre- 

 tary for his editing, and a third to the society, who certainly provide 

 us with a very respectable if incomplete guide to the year's geology. 



No. 2 of the Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum was published Peb. 

 28, and continues the catalogue of birds in the Derby Museum. Dr 

 Forbes also describes, under the name of Necropsar Icguati, a new 

 species of bird from the Mascarene Islands, supposed to be already 

 extinct. This bird was noticed somewhere about 1730 by some 

 marine surveyor (name unknown), who was sent to Mauritius by the 

 Compagnie des Indes ; but the bird to which he refers was unknown 

 to scientific men until Dr Forbes discovered a perfectly preserved 

 skin, among the specimens of HyjJsijjetes, in the Derby Museum, 

 where it had lain unnoticed for nearly fifty years. A sub-fossil 

 species of the genus Necropsar was described by Dr Giinther and Sir 

 E. Newton in 1874.. This number concludes with an illustrated 

 account of some highly ornamented metal-work from Benin, brought 

 from that city by the punitive expedition of 1897. 



Further Literature Received 



Lessons mth Plants, Bailey : Macmillan & Co. Grundziige d. Geogr.-morph. 

 Methode d. pflanzensystematik, Wettstein : Fischer, Jena. Naturalists' Directory : 

 Upcott Gill. L'Algerie, Battandier et Trabut : Bailliere, Paris. Catalogue of Madre- 

 poraria, vol. iii., Bernard : Brit. Mus. 



Studies fi-om Yale Psychol. Lab., vol. iv. Odours and Tastes of Surface Waters, 

 Jackson & Ellnis : TecJmol. Quarterly. Report Lane. Sea-fisheries lab., 1897. On a 

 Quartz Barytes Rock, Holland : Rce. Geol. Surv. Lidia. Ann. Rep. Field Columbian 

 Mus., 1896-7. Fishes and Reptiles from Somali-land, Meek & Elliot. Field Coluinb. 

 Mus. Publication, No. 22. Ann. Rep. Museum, Bolton, 1897. Aus der 22 Jahres- 

 versammlung deutsch Ornitholog. Gesell. : Abh. Zool. Anthrop. Mus. Dresden. 



Actes Soc. Sci. Chili, vii. 4; Amer. Jonrn. Sci., Mar. ; Amer. Nat., Jan. ; Botan. 

 Gazette, Feb. ; Bull. Liverpool Mus. i., 2 ; Feuille des jeunes Nat., Mar. ; L'ish Nat., 

 Mar. ; Knowledge, Mar. ; Literary Digest, Mar. ; Naturae Novit., Feb., No. 3 ; 

 Naturalist, Mar. ; Nature, Feb. 24, Mar. 3, 10 ; Nature Notes, Mar. ; Naturen, Jan. 

 and Feb. ; Pearson's Mag., Feb. ; Photogram, Mar. ; Plant World, Nov. 1897, Jan. 

 Feb. 1898 ; Revue Scient., Feb. 26, Mar. 5, 12 ; Riv. Psichologia, 19, 20, 21 ; Science, 

 Feb. 11, 18, 25 ; Revue, Sci. Nat. Ouest, No. 2, 1 Ap. 1897 ; Scientific Amer. Feb. 

 12, 19, 26; Mar. 5; Scot. Geogr. Mag., Mar.; Scot. Med. Journ., Mar.; Victorian 

 Nat., Jan. ; Westminster Rev. , Mar. 



