474 NATURAL SCIENCE. June, 1893. 



Mr, Elliot Stock has just issued a literal transcription of Captain 

 Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world, made in H.M. 

 Bark " Endeavour," 1768-71. This is the first occasion on which 

 the complete original MS. has been published, and it is edited, with 

 notes and introduction, by Captain W. J. L. Wharton. 



Messrs. Chapman & Hall have pubUshed a new edition of Rev. 

 H. N. Hutchinson's " Extinct Monsters." A few of the restorations 

 by Mr. Smit have been re-drawn and improved, and a large number 

 of woodcuts have been added to the text. 



The Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club has issued 

 its thirteenth volume (dated 1892). The chief things in this portly 

 " Proceedings " (244 pp.) concerning Natural Science are, a paper by 

 the president, Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, on the occurrence oi Lamprothammis 

 alopecuvoides, Braun, a Chara for which only one other British locality 

 is known ; a paper on " Some Monstrosities of Littorina riidis, Maton," 

 by E. R. Sykes, in which all the specimens discussed were gathered 

 in the Fleet Backwater, where the water becomes slightly freshened ; 

 and a contribution from the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge on the 

 British Species of False-Scorpions. This last is practically a mono- 

 graph, is illustrated by three excellent plates, and should prove of 

 great assistance to those who devote themselves to Chelifers. 



