470 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [DeC. 



REVIEW. 



The Boston Society of Natural History has issued the 

 following circular : — 



" On account of the gradual diminution of the number of sub- 

 scribers, the increased cost of publication, and the limited income 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History, it has been necessary to 

 suspend the publication of its Journal and Proceedings. 



" This suspension is a serious injury to the Society, as it cuts off 

 the means of making its labors public, and deprives it of the mate- 

 rial for exchange with other scientific bodies for the increase of the 

 Library. The Publishing Committee, with the consent of the 

 Council, have therefore deemed it advisable to invite its Patrons 

 and Members, and the friends of Science, to subscribe for these 

 works, so that their publication may at once be resumed. 



"The Society has already published seven volumes in 8vo of the 

 Journal, illustrated with many plates; and nearly nine volumes 

 in 8vo of the Proceedings. The former will hereafter be issued 

 in 4to, under the style of Memoirs ; the latter will be published 

 as heretofore, in monthly sheets, but will not any longer be fur- 

 nished free of cost to members. 



" Price. — The Memoirs will be furnished to members and patrons 

 at $3.50 per number ; to the public, at $4. A number, averaging 

 125 pages and four plates, will be published about once a year, four 

 numbers completing a volume. 



" The Proceedings will be furnished to members and patrons at 

 $3 per volume ; to the public, at ^4. They will be issued in sheets 

 of 16 pages each, averaging 24 sheets to a volume, the volume being 

 completed in about two years. Payment — for Memoirs will be 

 due on the presentation of each number ; for the Pro ceedings, on 

 the issue of the first sheet. 



" Boston, December 1, 1864." 



Signed by the Publishing Committee. 



We are indebted to the author for the first part of the Memoirs 

 above alluded to, being a " Revision of the Polyps of the Eastern 

 Coast of the United States," by A. E. Verrill, and consisting of 45 

 pages of quarto letter-press, and one lithographic plate illustrating 

 five species. The author, after noticing the imperfection of some and 

 the inaccessibility of much of the available material necessary to the 

 study of these animals, adds^ " It was for the purpose of supplying in 



