1898] SOME NEW BOOKS 61 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL 
THE Catalogue of the United States Public Documents, which is 
issued monthly by the Superintendent of Documents at the Govern- 
ment Printing Office, Washington, gives in its January issue (No. 37) 
a partial list of United States Government publications on Alaska. 
This should be of value to many besides those who are making their 
way to Klondike. 
The Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, vol. ii1., 
in its complete form, is just to hand, bearing date Ist February 1898. 
It is made up, as usual, of various parts, which were issued separately 
at the dates borne upon their several title-pages. The volume contains 
a great deal of important information on the geology of South Africa, 
and gives a map of the Klerksdorp goldfields, to accompany Mr 
Bawden’s paper thereon. We note from the President’s address that 
the Society has been so fortunate as to secure Prof. Rupert Jones’ 
unique and valuable collection of books, pamphlets, maps, etc., on the 
geology of the Colony, and thus is enabled to found a library under 
conditions which few colonies have enjoyed. A commendable addition 
to the present volumes is the “Complete Index to all Papers pub- 
lished from Ist February 1895 to Ist February 1898,” and we hope 
that librarians will not tear it up and throw it away because it is part 
of a wrapper. ‘The wrapper has often proved to be the most essential 
part of a serial publication, and should never be destroyed, but left 
absolutely intact and in place as issued, when the volume is bound. 
We have received from Messrs Dulau & Co. sections 50-52 of their 
“Catalogue of Zoological and Palaeontological works.” These sections 
consist of 48 pages, dealing with the literature of Diptera, Hemiptera, 
and Hymenoptera. 
FurrHer LITERATURE RECEIVED 
CATALOGUE of Welwitsch Collection, Part II., Hiern: British Museum. Pruning- 
book Bailey ; Text-book of Entomology, Packard: Macmillan Co., N.Y. Die Zelle 
und die Gewebe, O. Hertwig; Grundriss d. vergleichende Anatomie d. Wirbelthiere, 
Wiedersheim: Fischer, Jena. Practical Plant-Physiology, Detmer transl. Moor; The 
Wonderful Century, Wallace: Sonnenschein. Types of Scenery, Romanes Lecture, 
A. Geikie: Macmillan, London. Medical Missions, Acland: Frowde, London. ‘Text- 
book of Zoology, Wells & Davis: Univ. Tutorial Series, Clive, London. 
A propos de l’Eglise et de la Science, Erréra. Ratzel’s History of Mankind, Part 26. 
Cotgreave’s Subject-Index, 11-14. Le protoplasma radio-conducteur, Morin: L’opinion 
médicale. La pisciculture pratique, Baudouin: Bull. Soc. Péche France. Jamaica 
Fisheries, Duerden: Daily Gleaner. Root-tubercules, Otis: Jndustrialist. Obsidian 
“‘buttons” in Tasmania, Twelvetrees & Petterd: Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania. The Cubo- 
Medusae, Conant: Mem. Biol. lab. Johns Hopkins. Birds from St Marta, Bangs ; 
Squirrels from Mexico, Nelson: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. Simple Ascidians from 
Puget Sound, Herdman: Zvrans. L’pool Biol. Soc, Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii., parts 
9, 10, G. O. Sars; Bergen Museum, Catal. de la Bibliotheque, Fasc. xxiv. : Fewille 
jeunes Nats. 
Scot. Geogr. Mag., June; Amer. Journ. Sci., June; Amer. Nat., April ; Victorian 
Nat., April, May ; L’Anthropologie, March and April; Botan. Gazette, May ; Feuille 
des jeunes Nat., June; Irish Nat., June ; Westminster Rev., June ; Knowledge, June ; 
Literary Digest, May 21, 28, June 4; Naturae Novit., March, Nos. 5, 6, April, Nos. 7, 8, 
May, Nos. 9, 10; Naturalist, June; Nature, May 19, 26, June 2, 16, and Supplement ; 
Nature Notes, June; Naturen, May; New Age, April; Oxford Univ. Jr. Sci. Club 
Trans., May 4, 1896, No. 37, June 1897, N.s. 1897-98, Nos. 1, 2, 8, 4; Photogram, June ; 
Plant World, May, June; Psychol. Rev., Monogr. Supplement, May, June ; Review of 
Reviews, May, June ; Revue Scient., May 21, 28, June 4, 11; Science, May 13, 20, 27, 
June 3; Riv. Psichologia, May 15, 31; Scientific Amer., May 14, 21, 28, June 4; 
Scot. Med. and Surg. Journ., June. 
