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Timehri, the well-known publication of the Eoyal Agricultural 

 Society of British Guiana, is discontinued with the December number. 



An interesting- series of papers on the Geology of the Congo Basin 

 is appearing in Le 31 onrenieni Geof/raphique. They are compiled by 

 Professor Jules Cornet. 



We hear that, with the retirement of Mr H. C. Mercer and Prof. 

 H. C. Warren from the board of associate editors of the American 

 Naturalist, anthropology and psychology will no longer occupy the 

 pages of that journal. 



Mr G W. Murdoch, the able editor of the Natural History column 

 in the YorksJiire Weekly Post, is preparing a guide to Lakeland, 

 shortly to be published by Messrs Ward, Lock & Co. It will 

 contain an exhaustive chapter on the zoology and botany of the 

 district. 



The Asa Gray Bulletin is a botanical journal, formerly the organ 

 of a chapter of the Agassiz Association in the LTnited States. With 

 its June numlier it began to appeal to the general public in the shape 

 of a bi-monthly magazine, published at Washington, D.C., price 

 50 cents. It is edited by G. H. Hicks with the help of A. J. Pieters, 

 C. C. Dubois, and L. H. Dewey. 



The American Journal of Archaeology, hitherto edited by Professor 

 Porthingham, is now under the control of the Archaeological Insti- 

 tute of Aonerica, which will for the future issue its papers, reports, 

 &c., in a regular and uniform publication. An editorial board, 

 elected by the Council of the Institute, with Professor John H. 

 Wright of Harvard as editor-in-chief, will conduct the new series 

 of the journal. The Macmillan Company, New York, are the 

 publishers. 



With the December number of our lively and useful contem- 

 porary, Nature Notes, the editorship passes out of the hands of 

 Mr James Britten, who has held it for six years, into those of 

 Mr J. L. Otter, of 16 Vernon Terrace, Brighton. This journal has 

 hitherto been remarkably successful in excluding faddists from its 

 pages, and we trust the new management will be equally skilful in 

 avoiding an obnoxious race who too frequently mar the pages of 

 popular magazines. 



V hitermediaire des Biologist cs is the title of a new journal 

 devoted to biology, and published in Paris. The first number 

 appeared on 5th November 1897, and the second on the 20th of the 

 same month. The aim of the Journal is to be a sort of Notes and 

 Queries of zoology in all its branches in the first half of each number, 

 and a review and list of new literature in the second half. Such an 

 aim should find many supporters. L' Intermediare will appear 

 fortnightly; the subscription for the Postal Union is 12 francs; and 

 the publisher is C. Eeinwald, 15 rue des Saints-Peres, Paris. The 

 Editors are Alfred Binet and Victor Henri. 



