Miscellaneous. 241 



In this Part 3rd of Mr. Baily's book of fossils we have : — Mollusks 

 and Crustaceans from the Wenlock rocks ; a Coral, Echiuoderms, 

 Mollusks, Crustaceans, and Fish-remains from the Ludlow strata ; 

 Plants, Corals, Crinoids, and Braehiopods from the Devonian forma- 

 tions. We recognize the results of much research among modern 

 works ; but occasionally the author has omitted a point, such as 

 Ray Lankester's correction of the generic alliance of Scaphaspis 

 (olim Pteraspis) truncatus, and Harley's determination of the figured 

 Plectrodus-remains not being jaw and teeth, but prickly processes 

 of cephalic shields. Doubtless such corrections, reminding us of 

 the very extensive field a palteontologist has to work over, will be 

 noticed for the student in the sequel of the palaeozoic chapters. 



Both to student and advanced geologist, and to every one wishing 

 to know what fossils are, to what they belong, and what they teach, 

 we cordially recommend this lucid and well-arranged work. It is 

 written and illustrated by a painstaking and practical geologist, 

 highly esteemed as an authority among palaeontologists ; and he is 

 entitled to great credit for its fulness of information and for the 

 conscientious and judicious treatment of the manifold matters which 

 he has to bring within its limit. 



A Manual of Zoology for the use of Students, with a General 

 Introduction on the Principles of Zoology. By Henry Alleyne 

 Nicholson, M.D. &c. Second Edition, revised and considerably 

 enlarged. Small 8vo. Blackwood : Edinburgh and London, 1871. 



It is little more than a year since We called attention to the 

 completion of Dr. Nicholson's ' Manual of Zoology ;' and we are 

 glad to find that the favourable opinion which we then expressed 

 of it is confirmed by the circumstance that already a second edition 

 has been called for. Having noticed the work so recently, we need 

 add little to what we have already said about it ; it is still essentially 

 the same book ; but some slight errors have been corrected, and con- 

 siderable additions have been made to some parts of it, especially in 

 the account of the Vertebrata. It is gratifying to our feelings, as 

 critics, that several of the errors and omissions pointed out in our 

 former notice have been corrected or supplied ; we can only hope 

 that Dr. Nicholson may speedily have an opportunity of considering 

 whether he will not, in a new edition, adopt one or two more of 

 our suggestions. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Osteology of the Solitaire. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, — Prof. Newton writes that he and his brother " made 

 personal and explicit inquiry " of me " respecting the fate " of cer- 

 tain bones of the Solitaire. 



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