376 NATURAL SCIENCE. June, 1897. 



Wright and Neilson's results are of considerable interest, and should 

 be compared with Victor Madsen's lists noticed in Natural Science, 

 May, 1895, p. 355- 



An extension of this investigation to supposed glacial deposits of 

 North America has been made by Dr. G. M. Dawson, who con- 

 tributes some results to the last number of the Journal of Geology. 

 Mingled with fossils and rock-fragments that are obviously derived, 

 he finds many tests of Foraminifera which must have lived on the 

 spot where they are now found. 



An Old Zoological Record and Address Book. 



Possibly few are aware that over a century ago there was 

 founded a zoological record, viz., F. A. A. Meyer's Zoologische Annalen, 

 which was published at Weimar in 1794, and ran for one year 

 only. Meyer gave an account of zoological works issued up to 

 Easter and up to Michaelmas 1793, an alphabetical list of all living 

 zoologists, an account of all the zoological collections known to him, 

 and a sketch of all the new animals described during the year, in 

 systematic order. It must have been extremely useful to workers at 

 the time, and one is somewhat surprised that it was allowed to drop 

 so soon. 



The Falsification of the Record. 



The Irish Naturalist has done such good work in the study of the 

 geographical distribution of animals and plants in Ireland that it is 

 entitled to protest, as it is now doing, against the indiscriminate 

 attempts that are occasionally made to introduce foreign species into 

 that island. The record of former changes on the earth's surface, 

 preserved to us through the present distribution of species, is most 

 important, and anything that unnecessarily tends to vitiate it should 

 always seem reprehensible to the naturalist, Irish or otherwise. 



To THE Humanitarian League. 



Mr. Southwell's letter on the alleged golden eagle, and the review 

 of *' The New Charter " by an esteemed contributor, are not the only 

 protests against the methods of the Humanitarian League that have 

 come to our letter-box. All naturalists must wish well to the objects 

 of this League, and therefore in sincere kindness we suggest to its 

 members that they should not let their feelings carry them into such 

 inaccuracies and exaggerations of statement as they are too often 

 guilty of. There are in the three kingdoms plenty of trustworthy 

 field-naturalists who would be glad to help the League with a little 

 advice gratis. 



