74 Miscellaneous. 



of the geological student, and in enabling him to grasp the characters 

 and meaning of all the geographical features met with in travel at 

 home and abroad. 



Jukes's ' School Manual ' is much improved in this new edition, 

 and is well calculated for beginners really intending to work at the 

 science, and not merely amusing themselves with peeps into nature, 

 empty admiration of physical novelties, and easy pursuit of sensa- 

 tional inquiries neither useful nor lasting. 



Geological Stories. By J. E. Taylor, F.G.S. Small 8vo, pp. 301, 

 with many Woodcuts. Hardwicke : London, 1873. 



This is an elementary work, intended to lead amateurs to a know- 

 ledge of geology by " a series of autobiographies, in chronological 

 order," supposed to be related by different constituent members of 

 the several geological formations, as granite, quartz, slate, limestone, 

 sandstone, coal, rock-salt, jet, Purbeck marble, chalk, clay, lignite, 

 crag, boulder, and gravel. The attempt is praiseworthy, and, ex- 

 cepting in some details, is w r ell carried out. The author should be 

 more exact as to the characters of felspar, the structure of brachio- 

 pods, and other points in natural history, and more correct in his 

 Latin words, in his next edition, if he wishes his well-intentioned 

 and well-directed book to fulfil its purpose in advancing geological 

 knowledge. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Note on the Scombrocottus salmoneus of Peters, and its identity with 

 Anoplopoma fimbria. By Theodore Gill, M.D., Ph.D. 



The distinguished zoologist of Berlin, Dr. Wilhelm Peters, has re- 

 cently published a communication on a supposed new generic type 

 of Cataphracti from Vancouver's Island, which he has named Scom- 

 brocottus salmoneus. This form was regarded as possessing the 

 highest interest, on account of a combination of characters which 

 allied it to the Scombroids, and thus corroborated Dr. Giinther's 

 views respecting the affinity between the Cataphracti and Scombroids 

 of Cuvier. 



It was at once apparent, after a perusal of the good description, 

 that the supposed new type was identical with the form first dis- 

 covered and named by Pallas Oadus fimbria, and subsequently, by 

 Dr. Ayres, Anoplopoma merlangus. And it was with special interest 

 that I also recalled the fact that both its former describers had failed 

 to perceive any resemblance to the Scombroids (they equally failed, 

 however, in detecting the relations to the Cataphracti), and both 

 had believed they could perceive a resemblance to the Gadoids * ; 



* Dr. Ayres noticed the enlarged suborbitals, but referred the genus 

 near to Stizostedion (Lucioperca, Cuv.). 



