328 Reviews and Notices of BooJcs, 



doptera in the present number, are the last services Mr. D'Urban 

 is likely to render for the present to Canadian science. He is now 

 on his way to another field at the Cape of Good Hope, we wish 

 we could say soon to return to us. 



Mr. Bell contributes a long and useful catalogue of the ani- 

 mals and plants of the Lower St. Lawrence ; and he, we are glad 

 to say, is this summer in his old field. 



The Zoologist J June, 1860. — Fan Voorst, London. 

 We have to thank the editor of this Journal for his kindly 

 reo-ard to our wish for an exchano^e, and his favourable notice. 

 The Zoologist is a popular magazine of Natural History and a 

 Journal for recording facts and anecdotes relating to animals. The 

 present number contains among other matters very interesting 

 notices of the labors of M. Monhet, a collector at work in Siam ; 

 papers on the habits of the Aye-aye, on the Fauna of Mull, 

 and on beetles of the family Trichopterygidse, with a great 

 variety of interesting notices of new discoveries and incidents in 

 Natural History. 



Specimens of Marine Alg^ : chiefly from England. Presented to the 

 Natural History Society of Montreal. By Dr. Durkee, Boston. 



This volume contains a large number of specimens neatly pre- 

 pared and carefully named. Many of them are from the her- 

 barium of Dr. Harvey of Dublin, than whom there is no higher 

 authority in this department of Botany. The collection afi'ords 

 a ready means for the determination of species to those few stu~ 

 dents of Natural History in this Province, who take an interest 

 in this humble but exceedingly beautiful and interesting sub- 

 kingdom, — the sea-weeds. Some fine specimens of the more ob- 

 scure plants are embraced in this book ; many of which are not 

 to be found in ordinary collections. There are some good ex- 

 amples of the less common Fuci ; but the largest number pertains 

 to the class of Rhodosperms, Polysephonise, and Calithamnia 

 which are finely illustrated. Interspersed among the prevailing 

 English species, we find some plants from Australia, and a few- 

 natives of America. Altogether this is a valuable gift by one 

 of the corresponding members of our Society. We trust that it 

 will form the nucleus of a complete collection of this beautiful 

 class of plants. The Lower St. Lawrence is particularly rich in 

 its genera and species of Algje, and it may be hoped that some 

 careful collector will supplement Dr. Durkee's gift by a corres- 

 ponding book of our native sea and river flora. 



