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contained in the Scientific American Supplement. We often refer to- 

 tlie Scientific A^nerican, but we are not favoured with the Supplement. 

 Messrs Munn tell us that it is " a unique journal, containing no ad- 

 vertisements." The issue of this index is a unique and useful way of 

 advertising it. If every periodical- followed the example of the 

 Scientific American we then should accumulate a fine subject index 

 of contemporary literature, as complete as that which Mr Cotgreave 

 is trying to compile. 



The Westminster Revievj for February has a charming bit of 

 sarcasm in a review of a book on birds by a Dr W. T. Greene. It 

 appears that he follows the classification adopted in the Gardens of 

 the Zoological Society, not because he approves of it, but for the con- 

 venience of his readers. On this our contemporary remarks : " That 

 classification is very unsatisfactory, and it would be a good thing if 

 the society were to consult such an authority as Dr Greene, instead of 

 leaving the subject in the hands of mere amateurs." Our eminent 

 ornithologist, Dr P. L. Sclater, and that skilled writer on bird anatomy, 

 Mr F. E. Beddard, will chuckle over this phrase. Unfortunately, 

 people more ignorant than the Westminster reviewer are apt to take 

 irony so very seriously. 



We have received the first three livraisons of volume vii. of the 

 Actes de la Socie'te Scientifique du Chili. Dr. C. Perez Canto has an 

 article on the reproduction of certain bacteria from the point of view 

 of their classification. Gustavo Undurraga contributes some detailed 

 anatomical investigations of the pneumo-gastric nerve. E. Eiggen- 

 bacli describes a new species Bolhriotacnia. Chileiisis, found in the 

 intestine of a carnivorous gadoid fish living on the coasts of Chili, 

 known as Genyptorus Chilensis. F. Gautier writes on the presence of 

 antimony in certain tin minerals of Bolivia. F. Lataste discusses 

 several remarkable cases of teratology, and contributes what he calls 

 a study of rational biology, " Symmetry in Living Beings." There are 

 also minor papers by F. Lataste and A. Duges, and notes by Dr Otto 

 Nordenskjold on Patagonia. 



Further Literature Received 



Traite de Zoologie Concrete, v. Vermidiens, Delage et Herouard : Schleicher, Paris, 

 Elementary Botany, Groom : CI. Bell. Elementary Physics, Kerr : Blackie. Die 

 Gattung Cyclamen, Hildehrand : Lehrbuch der Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen, 

 KoUmann ; Organographie der Pilanzen, Goebel : Fischer, Jeua. Andree and his Bal- 

 loon, Lachambre and Machuron : Constable. 



The Gipsy Moth in America, Howard : Bull. U. S. Deft. Agriculture. On an 

 Index to Literature, Cotgreave. Die Resultate der Tiefseeforschung, Chnn. Catalogue 

 of Zoological and Palaeontological Works, No xlii. Echinodermata., xliii. Vermes : 

 Dulau. Catalogue of the Hadfield Collection of Shells : Manchester Museum. Anthri- 

 bidae from the Islands of Engano, &c., Jordan : Ann. Mus. Genova. Studies from the 

 Yale Psychological Laboratory, vol. iv. 



Actes Soc. Sci. Chili, vi. 4, 5, vii. 1, '2, 3; Amor. Journ. Sci., Feb. ; L'Anthro- 

 pologie, viii. (6) ; Bol. Mus. Paraense, xi., No. 2; Botan. Gazette, Jan, ; Feuille des 

 Jeunes Nat., Feb., and Bibl. Cat. ; Irish Nat., Feb. ; Journ. Malac, vi, 304; Know- 

 ledge, Feb. ; Literary Digest, Jan. 15, Feb. 5 ; Mem. Soc. Cient. Mexico, x., Nos. 

 5-12 ; Naturae Novit., Dec. No. 24, Jan., No. 1 ; Naturalist, Feb. ; Nature, Jan. 20, 27, 

 Feb, 3, 10, 17 ; Chivers' New Book List, Jan. ; Photogram, Feb. ; Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. xii. pp. 5-30 ; Revue Scient., Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 19 ; Science, 

 Jan. 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4 ; Scientific Amor., Jan. 8 and 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5 ; Journ. School, 

 Geogr., Jan. ; Intermediaire des Biol., i. 2 and 5 ; Journ. Conchol., ix. No, 1 ; Rivista 

 Psichologia, fasc. 18 ; Revue Sci. Nat. Quest., April 1897 ; Scot. Med. and Surg. Journ., 

 Feb. ; Scot. Geogr. Mag., Feb. ; Westminster Rev., Feb. 



