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medicine, and the inculcation of the value of the comparative method, not in 
anatomy alone, but in physiology, pathology, embryology, and further. 
Nature for July 6 has an interesting review of the latest work on 
Mammalian distribution :—‘ The Geography of Mammals,” by W. L. and P. L. 
Sclater,—a work which should also have been sent to Nat. Sc7. The review is 
of particular interest because of the antithesis, half expressed, and half repressed, 
between the reviewer’s conclusions and those of the authors, an antithesis which 
forcibly suggests the rapid progress in this department of zoology. 
Mr. L. L. Otler, a vice-president of the Selborne Society, proposes to have 
published “The Naturalist’s Calendar or Diary,” kept by Gilbert White of 
Selborne from January 1768 to June 1793; and subscriptions to this interesting 
work may be addressed to A. J. Western, Secretary of the Selborne Society, 
20 Hanover Square, W. The price to subscribers is 30s. a copy, to others 
£2 : 2s. net. 
The Geological Survey of Belgium is about to publish a “ universal repertory 
of geological work,” entitled ‘ Bibliographia Geologica,” edited by Michel 
Mourlon, Directeur du Service géologique de Belgique, with the collaboration 
of G. Simoens, D.Sc. 
In Nature Notes for June is an article reprinted from the Standard news- 
paper entitled the “ Vanishing African Fauna,” which, however, contains little, 
if anything, that is not already recorded in Mr. Bryden’s ‘‘ Nature and Sport in 
South Africa,” on which work it is apparently, indeed, mainly based. 
Of more interest is a note in the same serial by Mr. R. Morley, calling 
attention to the very serious diminution in the numbers of a West African 
Guereza Monkey (Colobus vellerosus), on account of the persecution to 
which it is subjected for the sake of its beautiful and valuable skin. The 
Government of the Gold Coast (which is the one concerned) should intervene 
with a strong hand, and at once prohibit such destruction. 
