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ence to the soils of Perthshire ; making altogether a good geological 
part of the Z’ransactions. 
Timehri for June contains Nesting of some Guiana Birds, by C. A. 
Lloyd; Tobacco and Cotton Cultivation in the British West Indies, 
by W. H. Burnley; Result of Recent Scientific Researches into the 
Agricultural Improvement of the Sugar Cane, and on other Sugar 
Cane Experiments, by J. B. Harrison. 
NEW SERIALS 
THE Institute of Jamaica has now begun to issue Annals in 
addition to its well-known Journal. We have received the first part 
containing a list of the Decapod Crustacea of Jamaica by Mary J. 
Rathbun of the U.S. National Museum. 
The Archives de Parasitologie, under the direction of Raphael 
Blanchard, is a new review announced to appear in Paris next 
January. The parts will be published at variable intervals, each 
containing about 160 pages, and four will constitute a volume, price 
30 francs. The journal will comprise both original articles and 
reviews of progress. 
The Archives of Skiagraphy has changed its title to Archives of 
the Roentgen Ray. It is edited by W.S. Hedley and Sydney Rowland, 
and is published by the Rebman Co. The illustrations are chiefly of 
medical and surgical interest. 
FurRTHER LITERATURE RECEIVED 
VORLESUNGEN iiber Bacterien, A. Fischer: Gustav Fischer. An Introduction to 
Geology, W. B. Scott: Macmillan. Traité de Botanique, L. Courchet: Balliére. The 
Mathematical Psychology of Gratry and Boole, M. E. Boole: Sonnenschein. In 
Northern Spain, Hans Gadow: Black. Catalogus Mammalium, fase. iii., E. L. 
Trouessart: Friedlander. Darwin and After Darwin, III. Post-Darwinian Questions, 
G. J. Romanes: Longmans. Familiar Wild Flowers, F. E. Hulme: Cassell. 
An Address on Acquired Immunity, G. Archdall Reid: Lancet. Notes on the 
Coccidae, T. D. A. Cockerell: Rev. Mus. Paulista. On the Nature of the Réntgen 
Rays, Sir G. G. Stokes: Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. Harvard University, Dept. 
Zoology, 1897-98. 
Timehri, June; Amer. Geol., Oct. ; Amer. Journ. Sci., Oct. ; Amer. Nat., Oct. ; 
Ann. Inst. Jamaica, Vol. i., No. 1; Annot. Zool. Japan, Vol. i., Part iii. ; Botan. 
Gaz., Sept. ; East Asia, Oct. ; Feuilles des Jeunes Nat., Oct. ; Irish Nat., Oct. ; Journ, 
School. Geogr., Sept. ; Knowledge, Oct. ; Literary Digest, Sept. 11, 18, Oct. 2, 9; 
Naturae Novit., Sept. ; Naturalist, Oct. ; Nature, Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14; Nature 
Notes, Oct. ; Naturen, Sept. ; New Age, Sept. ; Photogram, Oct. ; Rev. Scient. Sept. 
18, 25, Oct. 2, 9; Science, Sept. 10, 17, 24, Oct. 1; Sci. Amer., Sept. 11, 18, 25, Oct. 
2; Scot. Geogr. Mag., Oct. ; Scot. Med. and Surg. Journ., Oct. ; Victorian Nat., Aug. ; 
Westminster Review, Oct. 
