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the Anthropological Review." The volume consists of 302 pp., and 

 is priced at ten shillings. In the main one alphabetical arrange- 

 ment is followed, but why this is not carried out under the headings 

 " Exhibitions," " Reviews of Books," etc., passes our comprehension. 

 These items are apparently arranged in the order of publication, and 

 the inconvenience of having to wade through 16 pages of index when 

 hunting up the review of a book is obvious. The publication is 

 extremely valuable, and is an example to several other London 

 societies (e.g., Geological and Geographical), whose publications have 

 in part been indexed by Americans. The neglect to provide a general 

 index for journals like the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and 

 the Geological Magazine too, which has been running now since 1864, 

 speaks little for the enterprise of publishers. In the last 

 instance, we are informed, the work of preparation has been offered 

 gratuitously, but the outlay on printing has been refused. The 

 consequence is that many valuable papers are overlooked or forgotten, 

 as a serious expenditure of time is entailed in searching through the 

 indexes of thirty or forty volumes. They manage these things better 

 abroad, for such publications as the American Journal of Science and 

 the Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie are provided with general indexes 

 at intervals. 



An excellent portrait of the late Air. James William Davis 

 appears in the current number of the Geological Magazine. 



The sixtieth anniversary of the birthday of Baron F. von 

 Richthofen has been celebrated by the issue of a " Festschrift," a 

 volume of 418 pages, illustrated with a portrait and maps. It con- 

 sists of a series of essays, chiefly on geographical subjects, by the 

 Baron's pupils. The seventieth anniversary of the birthday of 

 Professor J. Victor Carus was marked by the issue of a beautiful 

 portrait with the Zoologischer Anzeiger for August 14, 1893. 



The Mediterranean Naturalist is now issued only at intervals of two 

 months. The August number contains, among other matter, a plea 

 for the establishment of a Museum of Natural History and Archaeology 

 for Malta. 



We are always glad to note the success of any scheme that has 

 for its object the infusion of a scientific spirit into collectors. It is 

 thus a matter for gratification to observe that the small "monthly 

 medium for collectors and students of Natural History" known as 

 The Naturalists' Journal has just been enlarged. One enthusiast in 

 the "exchange column" wants some Natural History books or speci- 

 mens in exchange for a pile of literature of the "railway accident 

 insurance" type. This looks like a conversion. 



