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years back. We have before suggested that the Appendix might 

 have partly made np for this defect, but, at best, this could only 

 have been partly done. It is not " addenda and corrigenda'* that 

 were needed so much as a thorough revision of the whole subject. 

 To do this, all the specimens in the British Museum must be once 

 more examined in detail, more especially the types. Good descrip- 

 tions are better, inasmuch as they are cheaper, than illustrations, 

 but bad descriptions are a torment and a worry to the working 

 naturalist. 



One good we predict from the publication of this volume, that 

 the students of this branch of IS'atural History will be now some- 

 what better able to make out the species, and that we shall very 

 probably have an increase in the number of those studying the 

 Annelida. Let us hope that the result may not be merely a great 

 increase in the list of British species, and a more exact description 

 thereof, but that it may lead to the publication of an illustrated work 

 on this subject, in which the pen of the Editor of this volume may, 

 with due credit, record the labours of one who has made Berwick-on- 

 Tweed classic ground to the Zoologist. 



XLIII. — Lubbock's Prehistoric Times. 



Prehistoric Times as Illtjstated by Ancient Eemains and 

 THE Manners and Customs of Modern Savages. By John 

 Lubbock, P.E.S., &c. London : AVilliams and Norgate. 1865. 



As a large part of the series of essays which have been combined 

 to form the present volume have already appeared in the pages of 

 this Journal, and as, moreover, the author of them is one of our own 

 editorial body, it will hardly be expected that anything like a critical 

 review of the work can be given in these pages. ' Neverthelessj so 

 much interest has been manifested, both at home and abroad, con- 

 cerning Sir John Lubbock's labours, and his resume of the several 

 great questions of the day is of such importance as regards the 

 future of ethnological science, that it will be neither just to oui'- 

 selves, nor fair to our readers, to pass over the issue of the present 

 work altogether in silence. "We shall, therefore, devote a few 

 paragraphs to a survey of the nature and contents of the present 

 volume. 



