56 NATURAL SCIENCE [July 
to meet with the statement on page 467 that there are no special 
genital ducts in the Polychaeta. Such organs have long been known 
to exist in the Capitellidae, and are indeed mentioned on page 486 by 
the author himself. 
Mr Sedgewick very wisely rejects the group Gephyrea, placing the 
Echiuridae with the Annelida, and the Sipunculidae and Priapulidae 
by themselves. On the other hand the Entoprocta are still retained 
inthe Phylum Polyzoa with the Ectoprocta. This treatment in- 
evitably leads to inconsistencies such as the following: the Polyzoa 
are defined as animals “ with coelom” ; turning to the definition of the 
Entoproctous group, we find it stated that “there is no body-cavity.” 
Good accounts are given of Phoronis, Sagitta, and the Brachiopoda, 
together with very interesting discussions of their affinities. The one 
on the Brachiopoda seems to us a model of what such a discussion 
should be in a text-book of this kind—clear and definite without 
being biassed, interesting and suggestive without being controversial. 
We have perhaps already indulged too much in adverse criticism ; 
it is so easy to find fault. There is, however, just one more point to 
be mentioned. Mr Sedgwick considers that the resemblance between 
Phoronis and the Polyzoa Phylactolaemata is not real, that the line 
between the mouth and the anus in the first case is dorsal, and in the 
second ventral. We must confess that the arguments brought for- 
ward to support this view seem to us quite inadequate, and we 
believe few zoologists will agree with the author in this matter. 
The volume is well got up, excellently printed, and illustrated by a 
large number—nearly 500—of well executed, clear, useful figures. The 
majority of these are quite familiar, being chiefly drawn from Claus’ 
‘Lehrbuch’; but there are some 50 new illustrations, generally well 
selected, except fig. 898 of Arenicola, which is both ugly and inaccurate. 
We hope the second volume will soon be published. If it is as 
good as the first, this work, when completed, will form one of the 
most useful and rehable Text-books of Zoology yet written. 
KE; 8G, 
For Musrum CURATORS 
MusEuMS ASSOCIATION : Report of Proceedings, with the Papers read at the Eighth 
Annual Meeting held in Oxford, July 6 to 9, 1897. Edited by James Paton. 8vo, 
124 pp. London: Dulau & Co., 1897 [?!]. Price, 5s. 
THE Superintendent of Corporation Museums and Art Galleries at 
Glasgow succeeds the secretaries as editor of this publication, and 
succeeds them also in their curious habit of publishing on the very 
title-page a statement hardly consistent with strict accuracy. We do 
not know how the most casuistical of Scotchmen could reconcile the 
imprint “ London, 1897,” with the review of various publications that 
certainly were not issued before 1898. Our copy was received on 
April 22. 
Last year the Association visited Oxford, and the president was 
Prof. Ray Lankester. His address is chiefly remarkable for a much 
needed attack on “that enemy of the human race, the eminent 
architect... who deliberately and habitually perverts the funds 
entrusted to his discretion, so as to produce a showy and expensive 
building, whilst ignorantly and shamelessly neglecting the essential 
purpose for which the building is required.” Following up this idea, 
