Bibliographical Noticf-t. ' 335 



These particular specimens or i»ihlvihed types (by no means often 

 real biological types of species or genera) have unfortunately in 

 many cases been mislaid, or even lost ; but to ensure that in future 

 paIa?unlological workers should be able to find and examine them, 

 it has been proposed that catalogues should be made of such " types " 

 existing in public and private museums. The Bristol Museum has 

 already supplied such a list, and the Catalogue before us is one of 

 such a desirable series. It contains notes on IGGG specimens that 

 have been either described or alluded to (with or without figures) 

 in books and memoirs, with references to authors, works, localities, 

 and formations; also to donors and collectors; adding synonyms 

 and occasional notes. 



Of these published " types," tlien, in the "W'oodwardian Museum 

 palaeontologists may find : — fossils of doubtful alliance, 17 ; i)]ants, 

 37 ; sponges, 22 ; graptolites, 2'J ; corals, 12(i ; echinoderms (in 

 seven divisions), 12:^ ; worms,!;}; polyzoans, 43 ; brachiopods, 143 ; 

 lamellibranchs, 2\)\ ; gasteropods, 267 ; other molluscs, 14-1 ; trilo- 

 bites, 13G ; decapods, 34 ; pliylloearids, 24; other crustaceans, 15 ; 

 fishes, 75 ; reptiles, 74: other vertebrates, 17. 



This book is well and clearly printed. There are but few verbal 

 errors to be noted besides those in the " Corrigenda," — such as 

 Anomozamites minus [jjn'itoj"], from the careless copying of a former 

 specific name ; so also Acidaspis erinaceus instead of erinacea, 

 and p. 45, Traclujdtrma Icevis [ve'] ; p, 115, Trochonema blju- 

 f/osa [sum]: p. 12G, (Jrioceras ocndtus [turn]; p. 169, Dorato- 

 rhynchus validinn [dus"]; Bowmani, at p. 146, and Philippi, at 

 p. 1 69, are misspelt, and the diphthongs are dropped in Mceandnna 

 and Thamnastrffci. At p. 154 '■'• Glyphcc-a'' should be GhipJieay 

 and stddevis should be s^ddtrvis. These are flaws in a book of 

 nomenclature. The degradation of the rightfid capitals in specific 

 terms derived from proper names, and the capricious reduction of ii in 

 genitives to a single i, are nomenclatural faults due to the mistaken 

 notions of the neo-classicists. We should have liked that their 

 puristic notions had been better directed, and that they had printed 

 Lindstroemia and Gcepperti with real diphthongs instead of with the 

 modified vowel of the Germans ; so also MumteH should be 

 Mueiisteri. 



Delagoa Bay : its Xatives and Xatural History. By EosE Moxteieo. 

 With Illustrations. G. Philip and Son, 1891. 



This brightly-written little book is from a lady whose name is well 

 known at Kew Gardens for the dried plants and seeds she has sent 

 home, and also to many entomologists as a collector of insects ; 

 the frontispiece showing nine new species of African butterflies 

 which she discovered during her second visit to Delagoa Bay. The 

 author was no novice in African life, for she had already been in 

 Angola with her husband, the late J. J. Monteiro, an Englishman 



