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its annual form for general reference. Naturae Novitates provides 
moreover a regular and important collection of Personalia as regards 
appointments and deaths. 
THE second part of vol. i. of the Records of the Botanical Survey 
of India contains a paper on the results of Lieut. E. Pottinger’s 
journey through Myitkyina, Burmah. There is a complete lst of 
the phanerogams and vascular cryptograms and a map. Many 
orchids are recorded. 
THE re-issue of Stanford’s “Compendium of Geography” will be 
completed in 1899. Vol. i, by Geo. C. Chisholm, is complete, and 
contains the birth of the mainland of Europe. Vol. ii. will include 
the British Isles, Scandinavia, Denmark, and the Low Countries, and 
is already advanced. Other volumes, to contain Central and South 
America, are in the hands of Sir Clements Markham and A. H. 
Keane. 
THE Annual Progress Report of the Geological Survey of Western 
Australia for 1897 has just reached us, in the contorted and un- 
manageable condition usual with these official publications. The 
report consists of 66 pages and no less than seven valuable maps 
(Northampton, Peak Hills, Horseshoe Diggings, Bunbury, Kanowna, 
Coolgardie, and Artesian Bores in the vicinity of Perth), all of which 
have accompanying text. 
Our interesting contemporary Zhe Journal of School Geography 
includes among the varied contents of its October number an illus- 
trated article by G. K. Gilbert on the “ Origin of the Physical Features 
of the United States,” reprinted from the National Geographic 
Magazine for July. There is also a useful note by A. J. Herbertson, 
defining the various terms Britain, Great Britain, England, Xe. 
FURTHER LITERATURE RECEIVED. 
Aids in Practical Geology, Cole: Griffin, London. Text-book of Botany, Vines : 
Sonnenschein, London. Text-book of Mineralogy, Dana: Wiley, New York. Cytologie 
expérimentale, Labbé: Carre & Naud, Paris. Allgemeine Biologie, I., Protoplasma, 
Kassowitz: Perles, Wien. Pflanzen-geographie, Schimper: Fischer, Jena. From 
Matter to Man, Dewar: Chapman & Hall, London. 
Studies from Yale Psychol. Lab., vol. v. Report Australian Museum, 1897. Corn- 
wall County Council, Report Fisheries. Study of the development of the Tuatara, 
Denby: Proc. Roy. Soc. Relations between marine animal and vegetable life, Vernon : 
Mitt. Zool. Stat. Neapel. Birds from Sierra Nevada de Sta Marta, Bangs: Proc. Biol. 
oc., Washington. Ruins of Xkichmook, Thompson: Field Columbian Mus. Publ., 28. 
Half-century of Evolution, Packard: Proc. Amer, Assoc. Report on Chillagoe mining 
district, Jack: Geol. Surv., Queensland. Relations between Hybrid and Parent forms 
of Echinoid. Larvae, Vernon: Phil. Trans. 
Amer. Geol., Jan., Feb., March, Nov. ; Amer. Journ. Sci., Oct. ; Amer. month. 
Micr. Journ., Sept., Oct. ; Amer. Nat., Oct. ; Bolletino del Naturalista, 10; Botan. 
Gazette, Oct. ; Feuille des jeunes Nat., Nov. ; Irish Nat., Nov., Oct. ; Scot., Geogr. 
Mag., Nov.; Timehri, XII., 1; Trans. Perthshire Soc., II., 6 ; Victorian Nat., Sept. and 
Oct. ; Westminster Rev., Nov. ; Journ. Conchol., Oct. (vol. ix., No. 4; Journ. 
School. Geogr., Oct., Nov. ; Knowledge, Nov. ; Literary Digest, Oct., 8, 15, 22, 29, 
Nov. 5; Naturae Novit, Oct., No. 18, 19, 20; Naturaleza (Mexico) (2) IL., III. ; 
Naturalist, Nov. ; Nature, Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17 ; Nature Notes, Nov. ; Naturen, 
Oct.-Nov. ; Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, XI., 1; Plant World, Oct.; Psychol. Rev., Nov. ; 
Review of Reviews, Oct., Nov. ; Revue Scient., Oct. 22, 29, Nov. 5, 12, 19; Riv. Ital. 
Se. Nat., Nov.-Dec.; Science, Oct. 7, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11; Scientific Amer,, Oct. 8, 15, 
22, 29, Nov. 5, 12; Scot. Med. and Surg. Journ., Novy. 
