282 NATURAL SCIENCE. Oct.. 1895. 



Some Serials. 



The Archaeologist (Columbus, Ohio) ceases to exist with the Sep- 

 tember number. It will in future form a department in Popular 

 Science News (New York), which will be edited by Mr. W. K. Moor- 

 head, of Ohio State University, the editor of The ArchcBologist. 



We are informed that the Mittheilungen mis dem Minevalogischen 

 Institut zn Kiel has also ceased to exist. Communications will in 

 future, we believe, be published in a new periodical, ArcJiiv fur 

 Anthropologic und Geologic Schlestvig-Holsteins nnd der benachbarten Gebiete, 

 of which the first number appeared in August, and contained a 

 valuable paper by Dr. E. Stolley on the curious boulders of Cambrian 

 and Silurian age which are scattered over the surface of the ground 

 in Schleswig-Holstein. 



Knoivledge has published in the September number a map of the 

 world showing the explored, partly explored, and unexplored regions. 

 This is useful as roughly showing at a glance the great amount of 

 work yet to be done by geographers and geologists. It has been 

 drawn up by Professor Logan Lobley, and is appropriately published 

 at this time of Geographical Congress. 



In the same number there is an interesting illustrated paper 

 by Mr. J. E. Quibell on the newly-found race in Egypt. The bodies 

 are not buried at full length as was customary with the Egyptians, 

 but in a contracted position, and usually without the head, Flint 

 weapons, beautifully finished, have been found, as well as rude and 

 painted pottery. Mr. Quibell thinks this previously unrecorded race 

 were the ancient Lybians, and colour is lent to his view by the 

 finding of a small female figure with tattoo marks in one of the 

 graves ; the Lybians themselves being of white skin and tattooed, 

 according to the Egyptian monuments. 



The Geographical Society of Finland has already issued its 

 " Expose des travaux geographiques executes en Finlande jusqu' en 

 1895." This communication was made to the Geographical Congress 

 which recently met in London. It forms a volume of 154 pages, is 

 published at Helsingfors, and adds a valuable book to the long series 

 of geographical bibliographies. 



We are glad to note the acceleration in the issue of Poirault's 

 translation of the " Manuel de Geographic Botanique," by Oscar 

 Drude, noticed in Natural Science, vol. vii., p. 214. Livraisons 6 and 

 7, just to hand, include the greater part of the fourth section of the book, 

 which deals with the various plant formations and their characteristic 

 families and genera. Part v., on the regions of vegetation of the 

 globe in geographical order, is now just commenced. 



Messrs. Dulau & Co. have sent us their catalogue (No. 14) of 

 Botanical Works, comprising Systematic and Miscellaneous, Medical 

 Botany, Botanical Biographies, and Periodical Publications. 



