1899] FIORA OF SAND DUNES II 
regard to the movement of dunes have their correlatives in this 
country. In this as in other ways the paper claims as much attention 
from European students as from those in America. The author 
suggests the problem offered by the presence of so many maritime and 
salt-loving species along the shores of a fresh-water lake, but reserves 
his explanation for a future paper, where he will particularly consider 
the oecological adaptations of the plants. The paper is profusely 
illustrated by process-blocks from photographs which, although they 
have undoubtedly suffered in reproduction, yet add greatly to the 
interest and value of the work, and aid in rendering it one of the 
most important oecological studies which has yet appeared in the 
United States. 
Galway Natural History Museum. 
WE have from time to time given accounts of local. museums, and 
our contemporary the Jrish Naturalist, following our example, has in 
its June number a description of the Natural History Museum, 
Queen’s College, Galway, by Prof. R. J. Anderson. From this 
interesting account we select two paragraphs :— 
“Metropolitan museum authorities have sought to give a natural 
character to their collections, which one seeks for in vain amongst the 
average stuffed animals with their sleepless eyes and too cowering or 
too rigid pose. The example so well set has been followed here. 
One case represents a tug-of-war between an owl and a stoat, the 
rope is represented by a rat. Another shows the platypus at home 
with the avenues to his burrow by water and land; a third shows a 
peregrine and a slain rabbit; a fourth, a number of water birds with 
scenery ; a fifth, the hornbill at home; a sixth, a fox interested in 
a woodcock; a seventh, an owl giving portions of a dead bird to its 
young; and eighth, a stoat with water birds, water, a dace, and a 
water - beetle; a ninth—a spider with a humming bird in his 
clutches.” 
“ Proximity to the sea makes it possible to secure quite a number 
of living specimens. ... I note on a window, as I write, a good 
many invertebrate types, living and well, sea-anemones and starfish, 
nereids and periwinkles, crabs and tunicates, crickets and spiders. In 
one tank are frogs and fresh-water mussels, in another tadpoles.” 
Botanical Biography. 
WE are glad to note the issue as a separate publication of the first 
supplement to Messrs. Britten & Boulger’s Biographical Index of British 
