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mention in Williams's 1794 List, which in other cases is rejected by Mr. 

 Howe as incompetent authorit^■. 



Another feature hardly fair to Mr. Perkins is the rejection in Mr. 

 Howe's 'Review' of ten species which, without direct comparison of the 

 two lists, the reader would suppose were to be found in the Perkins list, 

 but which are not, and are introduced by Howe for comment because 

 accredited to Vermont, as he believes, on insufficient evidence. 



Mr. Howe's 'Review ' is, however, an important contribution to a more 

 correct knowledge of Vermont birds, and together the two papers form a 

 substantial basis for further work. — J. A. A. 



Packard's ' Lamarck, His Life and Work.'i — Although Lamarck cannot 

 be ranked as an ornithologist, his views on evolution, and the life of the 

 man cannot fail to be of interest to every biologist. In this volume Dr. 

 Packard has very charmingly brought together the little that is known of 

 his personal history and heroic struggle with many adverse circumstances, 

 and a translation of the more important of his writings relating to evolu- 

 tion. That he paved the way for the doctrine so ably established bv 

 Darwin half a century later has become duly recognized. Yet the views 

 of these two great investigators were in reality quite different, Lamarck's 

 being the broader, and in some respects the more fundamental. In a 

 word, Lamarck was an evolutionist in a broad sense, Darwin a natural 

 selectionist. Lamarck was a believer in the transmutation of species 

 through the direct influence of environment, the use and disuse of parts, 

 effort, habit ; the 'survival of the fittest' principle, or ' natural selection ' 

 was the important contribution of Darwin. While Darwin has his mul- 

 titude of followers, so has Lamarck. N'eolamarckism is only Lamarckism 

 shorn of certain crudities naturally involved in the first conception of 

 a great theorj' when biology was in its infancy.- — J. A. A. 



' Upland Game Birds.'^ — This is the second volume, in point of issue, 

 of the ' American Sportsman's Library ' series, to be completed in ten 

 volumes, under the editorial supervision of Mr. Caspar Whitnev, the 



' Lamarck | the Founder of Evolution | His Life and Work | with trans- 

 lations of his I writings on Organic Evolution | By | Alpheus S. Packard, M. D., 

 LL. D. I Professor of Zoology and Geology in Brown University ; author of 

 "Guide to the | Study of Insects," "Text-book of Entomology," etc., etc. | . . . . 

 I Longmans, Green, and Co. | 91 and 93 Fifth Avenue, New York | London 

 and Bombay | 1901. — 8vo, pp. xiv-l-451, with illustrations. 



* Upland Game Birds | By | Edwyn Sandys | and T. S. Van Dyke | Illus- 

 trated by L. A. Fuertes, A. B. Frost | J. O. Nugent, and C. L. Bull | [Vignette] 

 New York | The Macmillan Company | London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd. | 

 1902 I All rights reserved. American Sportsman's Library Series. Svo, pp. 

 ix-f-429, 9 half-tone plates. Price $2.00. 



