4o8 NATURAL SCIENCE. Dec. 



weathered the storm, and that solely because it has been supported 

 by the very life-blood of our own Geological Society. Commenced 

 many years ago as a quarterly list of books received, under the 

 auspices of Thomas Rupert Jones, then secretary to the Society, it 

 has gone steadily on, recording year by year the contents of every 

 serial and the name of every book and map that has been received 

 into the library. This year it may still be found by the curious in 

 the November number of the Qtiavtet'ly Journal of the Geological Society 

 — ignored by nine-tenths of geologists, greatly prized by the remaining 

 few. For of all lists published, these are the only ones where you 

 may find a complete record of the geological papers in any particular 

 serial for something like twenty years. It is not too much to say that 

 this is the most valuable publication that the Geological Society gives 

 to its members in the course of the year. The " Additions to the 

 Library," for so it is called, has, we believe, been compiled by the 

 present librarian, Mr. William Rupert Jones, for many years, though 

 we have never observed his name attached to it. The list just pub- 

 Hshed, which covers the period July, 1893 — June, 1894, consisting of 

 125 pages, exceeds its predecessor in length by 45 pages, and is a 

 remarkable example of careful and painstaking recording. We trust 

 the Geological Society, whatever it may do in the matter of records, 

 will keep this portion of their publications intact, for it serves a purpose 

 which no other record has ever served, in giving a continuous account of 

 the contents of various serials which is of considerable utility and value. 



A Universal Zoological Record. 

 In this vital matter of recording, a most important step in 

 advance comes from America, and Minneapolis has practically 

 begun what should have been done by London, Naples, or Berlin 

 many years ago. This means that we have received from 

 Mr. Clarke Barrows, of the University of Minnesota, certain printed 

 catalogue slips on cards of the well-known size supplied by the 

 Library Bureau of Boston for card-catalogues. The arrangement of 

 one of these slips is here reproduced : — 



Wilson, Edmund B. 



1S92 The Coil-Lineage of Nereis. A Contribution to the Cytogeny of the Annelid 

 July Body. 7 plates, 8 wd.cts. & 1 cytogenetic table. 



Journal of Morphology, Vol. VI, Nr. 3, pp. 361-460 {480). 

 Abstract in — 



. [punched il' required.] 



