460 SOME NEW BOOKS [DECEMBER 1899 
Among the articles in the Zoologist for November there is an interesting 
diary by Edinond Selous concerning the habits of nightjars, and an account by 
J. L. Monk of the spawning of Bombinator pachypus after two years of 
captivity in England. 
Science Gossip for November contains, among other articles, the following :— 
“On colouring of Birds’ Eggs,” by R. J. Hughes, and “‘ On Armature of Helicoid 
Land-shells,” by G. K. Gude. There is also on p. 191 a suggestion well worthy 
of consideration in regard to co-operative science collections. 
The Journal of the Institute of Jamaica (vol. ii. No. 6, issued 31st August 
1899) contains much interesting matter, a large number of short historical 
articles, e.g. ‘The Story of the Life of Columbus and the Discovery of Jamaica,” 
by the editor Mr. Frank Cundall, and many scientific papers, of which those by 
Mr. J. E. Duerden, the enthusiastic and indefatigable curator of the museum, 
may be especially noted. 
Rhodora for November has among its articles one on adventitious plants of 
Drosera, by R. G. Leavitt, and one on the white blackberry, by A. M. Mitchell. 
We have also received the following :— 
On the physiological perception of musical tone. Being the seventh Robert 
Boyle Lecture delivered before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club on 
6th June 1899. By Prof. John Gray M‘Kendrick, M.D.; LL.D. ; F.R.SS. 
L. and E. Pp. 65. London: Henry Frowde, 1899. Price one shilling net. 
A continuation of Acloque’s “ Faune de France,” dealing with birds (pp. 87- 
336, with 621 figures. Paris: Baillitre, 1899, price 5 francs), which sustains 
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the reputation of the previous volumes. 
Also a paper by Mr. A. C. Seward, previously noticed in our pages, ‘On 
the Structure and Affinities of JJatonia pectinata, R. Br., with notes on the 
geological history of the Matonineae,” Phil. Trans. Series B, vol. exci, 1899. 
Pp. 171-209, 4 pls. Price 4s. 6d. 
The first Lancashire Sea-Fisheries memoir, “‘ Oysters and Disease, an account 
of certain observations upon the normal and pathological histology and bacteri- 
ology of the oyster and other shell-fish,” by Profs. W. A. Herdman and R. 
Boyce. 4to, pp. 60, 8 pls. London: Philip and Son, 1899. Price 7s. 6d. net. 
“The Concilium Bibliographicum in Ziirich and its work,” by W. E. Hoyle, 
M.A., and Clara Nordlinger of the Manchester Museum (which is proud to be 
the possessor of the only complete set of the Ziirich cards in England). The 
paper is reprinted for private distribution from the Library Association Record, 
November 1899; and it is hoped that it may do something to promote 
increased appreciation of Dr. Field’s self-sacrificing bibliographic energy. 
‘Notes on the Binney Collection of Coal-measure Plants,” by A. C. Seward, 
M.A. Part I. deals with Lepidophloios, and Part LI. with Megalorylon gen. nov. 
Proc. Cambridge Philos, Soc. x. 1899, pp. 137-174, 2 pls. and 5 figs. 
