474 NATURAL SCIENCE. JUNE, 1893. 
Mr. Extior 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. CuapmMAn & Hatt have published 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. 
Tue 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 of Lamprothamnus: 
alopecuroides, Braun, a Chara for which only one other British locality 
is known ; a paper on ‘‘ Some Monstrosities of Littorina rudis, 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. 
