524 BihUojrnpMcal Notices. 



World pterins, as its true relationsliip can only be settled when 

 its skull and teeth are known ; but so far as build and claws 

 go, and on these the family has been classified, it certainly 

 lias a striking resemblance to its American analogue. 



JMr. Jackson is much to be congratulated on the present 

 important addition to the long list of his zoological disco- 

 veries, which is, perhaps, the most interesting of them all. 

 New Carnivores of any sort are always few and far between, 

 while of genera the last discovered were j^Iuropus and Bos- 

 saricyorij described respectively in 1871 and 1876. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



An Index to the Genera and Species of the Foraminifera. By Charles 

 Davies Sherbokn. — Part I. A to Non. 8vo. 240 pages. City 

 of AVasbington, U.S.A. November 1893. 



This is one of the " Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections," No. 856, 

 published by the Smithsonian Institution, which has given to the 

 world a vast mass of useful literature on a groat variety of scientific 

 subjects. This is the first lialf of a work, forming a part of volume 

 37 of the " CoUections ; " the remaining part is to be published in 

 1895, together with a Preface, and such emendations as may be 

 found necessary. The preparation of the manuscript of this Index 

 occupied the years between 1885 and 1889. The printing was 

 commenced in 1890 ; and, the Smithsonian Institiition haviug been 

 liberal in the transmission of proofs, considerable time has neces- 

 sarily been taken up by author and printer in ensuring accuracy 

 among about 10,000 names of genera and species, with their refer- 

 ences, in this part of the Index. 



That there should be so large a number of published names of 

 Foraminifera, whether definitely described or merely noticed, under 

 the first fourteen letters of the alphabet, is at first sight astonishing ; 

 and the greater is the obligation of Khizopodists to Mr. C. D. Sher- 

 born, P.ti.S., F.Z.S., for collecting them in a systematic manner, 

 and to the Smithsonian Institution for the considerate liberality shown 

 in printing and publishing this extremely valuable and voluminous 

 Index. 



We already know ^Ir. C. D. Sherborn to be an ardent, industrious, 

 and conscientious bibliographist, especially of the Foraminifera (see 

 notice in the Auu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. (3, vol. ii. pp. A'2A, 4i?5, 

 November 1S88); also (with Mr. A. S. Woodward) of the British 

 Fossil Vertebrata (Ann. & ^Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. (3, vol. vi. pp. 'S.\~- 

 339, April 18!)0) ; and in other branches of bibliography, with Judi- 

 cations and rectifications of dates, much wanted and weU apj>reciated 

 by zoologists and others. Indeed, the grandly designed index to 



