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large collection of such impressions for the purpose of ready reference, 

 it is suggested that the primary classification of prisoners should 

 depend on measurements of the length and breadth of the head, the 

 length of the left middle finger, of the left forearm, and of the left 

 foot. The Committee are strongly of opinion that it is essential to 

 the complete success of the registry to secure the services of an expert 

 practised in the methods of scientific anthropometry, and, if possible, 

 one who has had practice in training other persons in making scientific 

 measurements. A scientific adviser would be required and would be 

 able to settle such questions as the limits to be adopted in England 

 for the classes of large, medium, and small, and the amount of 

 variation to be allowed for in individual measurements ; he would be 

 able to superintend the training of warders in taking measurements, 

 and he would instruct the officers in charge of the registry in the 

 decipherment and classification of finger-prints. He might also be 

 able, after experience of the working of the scheme, to suggest 

 modifications. On every ground, then, the Committee think it 

 desirable that the English Anthropometric Office should, from the first, 

 have the advantage of scientific guidance not inferior to that which 

 the French Service d'Identification enjoys in having M. Bertillon at 

 its head. 



In the " Revue de Geographie," Paris (Jan., 1894), M- J- Girard has 

 a paper on the Mouths of Rivers, dealing especially with modifica- 

 tions in form due to the velocity of the water, deposition of sediments, 

 and waste or growth of banks. In the same number, and continued 

 from December, Professor Malotet writes on the sandy plain of 

 French Flanders. 



Mr. Edward Stanford has just issued a new edition of his 

 " London Atlas of Universal Geography." The maps of Europe, 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Switzerland, have been redrawn, 

 a fine sheet map of London has been added, and the following maps are 

 new : Channel Islands, Canaries and Madeira, Asia Minor, and the 

 Euphrates Valleys, north-west frontier of India and the Pamirs, Siam, 

 Madagascar, Argentine Republic, and New Guinea. The atlas is too 

 well known to need any recommendation, and, containing 100 maps, 

 is published at ^12. 



We have received from Mr. Welch, 49 Lonsdale Street, Belfast, a 

 catalogue of photographs of Irish views of geological interest. Several 

 of these photographs have been taken at the suggestion of Professor 

 Grenville Cole and Mr. M'Henry, who have supplied the geological 

 information given in the catalogue. The photographs are issued as 

 platinotypes or silver prints, and can be had in three sizes. 



Messrs. Friedlander & Sohn, ii Carlstrasse, Berlin, N.W., by 

 request of the German Zoological Society, have in hand an " Inter- 

 national Directory of Zoologists." This will include zoologists, 

 collectors, draughtsmen, preparers, modellers, and dealers, and will be 

 compiled by Professors F. E. Schulze of Berlin, and H. Ludwig of 

 Bonn. They will be glad to receive names, which should be sent at 

 once. 



