554 BihliograpMcal Notice. 



is granulate, but not quite so densely as in S. venerahilis, 

 and the smooth basal area is much more extended. The 

 elytra are striated in a similar manner, but the interstices are 

 rather more shining than is usual in ^S^. vetierahilis, and the 

 punctures scattered over the surface, although small, are very 

 distinct. The margin is bicarinate, the inner carina being 

 complete, and not broken up as in S. venerahilis. The hair 

 on the posterior tibial and elsewhere is fulvous. The tarsi 

 are very little longer than the tibial spur, 



Bab. Maziwa Mitatu, Taru Desert, March 18th, 1897. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE- 



A Memoir of William Pengclly, of Torquay, F.R.S., Geologist, ivitli 

 a Selection from 7iis Correspondence. Edited by his Daughter 

 Hester Pengelly ; with a Siimmarj- of his Scientific Work, by 

 the Eev. Professor Bonxet, F.R.S., E.G.S., Hon. Canon of 

 Manchester. 341 pages, with Portrait and ten other Plates. 

 8vo. John Murray, London. 



Born January 12, 1812 ; died March 16, 1S94, aged 82, it may well 

 have been said of him — " Thou shalt come in at thy full time to the 

 grave, as the corn is gathered to the shock at his season." We 

 know the general history of any such grain as is here alluded to, its 

 origin, sowing, growth, and gathering in ; but of the special history 

 of a good old man, who has passed through all the stages of a long 

 and useful life with credit to himself and benefit to others, we 

 require to know much from those who were his particular com- 

 panions and friends. Manifold materials for this view of "W. Pen- 

 gelly's life exist in letters and memoranda collected by his family. 

 These have been freely utilized in the Biography by Miss Hester 

 Pengclly. The narrative, divided into nineteen chapters, marked 

 off by groups of the successive years and personal occurrences, is 

 clear and consistent, often taking in contingent parts of the corre- 

 spondence and the anecdotes so characteristic of W. Pengelly's 

 conversation. In fact, letters, anecdotes, narrative, and personal 

 remarks are skilfully pieced together. Here and there the reader 

 may find the transition from large to small print, and from abstract 

 to concrete statement of occurrences, doings, and thinkings, rather 

 inconvenient. Nevertheless the record can be taken up at any part 

 with satisfaction ; and it is often difficult to lay it down, either on 

 account of its anecdotal clearness or from sympathetic feeling. It 

 is full of interest both for his contemporaries, who had a living 

 friendship with him, and for the later admirers of his powers, and 

 students who have benefitted by his writings. 



Accustomed to a seafaring life in his early years, "W. Pengelly's 



