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In addition to the usual "notes'' and proceedings of Irish 

 Societies, the October issue of the Irish Naturalist contains an 

 interesting communication by Mr. C. B. Moffat, entitled " The 

 Habits of the Hairy-armed Bat." 



We have received a copy of the Papers and Proceedings of 

 the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1 898- 1 899 (issued June 1900). 

 It contains a useful list of Tasmanian mollusca, by Miss Lodder ; 

 several petrological papers, by Mr. W. H. Twelvetrees and 

 Mr. W. F. Petterd, in which limurite, haiiyne-trachyte, felsites, 

 nephelinite and other rocks are described ; also a note by 

 the same authors on bones of Tasmanian labyrinthodonts. 

 Numerous other natural history subjects are dealt with. 



Among recent American and Colonial reprints we have to 

 note the following : — Contributions to the U.S. National 

 Herbarium, the plant covering of Ocracoke Island, by Thomas 

 H. Kearney, jun. ; and Stigmonose, a disease of carnations and 

 other pinks, by Albert F. Woods ; both issued by different 

 divisions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Progress of 

 plant breeding in the United States, by Herbert J. Webber and 

 E. A. Bessey, reprinted from the year book of the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture for 1899 ; and Observations on the 

 eucalypts of New South Wales, parts 5 and 6, by H. Deane 

 and J. H. Maiden, from the Proceedings of the Linnean Society 

 of New South Wales. 



A SMALL pamphlet, issued by the Joint Agricultural Council 

 of the East and West Ridings and of the Yorkshire College, con- 

 taining a list of one hundred Yorkshire weeds, should be useful 

 to farmers. It will be supplemented by a herbarium containing 

 entire plants of the hundred weeds, and a cabinet containing 

 their seeds or fruits, and will be followed by others. 



In the Bulletin, No. 3 (Petroleum Series), issued by the 

 School of Mines, University of Wyoming, Mr. W. C. Knight 

 gives an account of the oil-fields of Crook and Uinta counties. 

 The geological features of the oil-yielding districts are briefly 

 sketched and illustrated by maps and sections in the text. 

 Tables showing the results of testing in various samples of oil 

 are contributed by Mr. E. E. Slosson. 



" Notes on some Jurassic Plants in the Manchester Museum," 

 by Mr. A. C. Seward, are published in the Memoirs of the 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. xliv. 1900, 

 and reprinted in "Notes from the Manchester Museum," No. 6. 

 The collection dealt with includes the plants figured by Lindley 

 and Hutton, in addition to other specimens in the museum. 

 The synonymy of numerous species is given, and a list of Inferior 

 Oolite plants contained in the museum collections is also added. 

 These notes are accompanied by four well-executed plates and a 

 useful bibliography. 



In the M^moires du Mttsee Roy. ctHist. Nat. de Belgique, 

 t. i. 1900, Mr. Seward describes the Wealden flora of Bernissart 

 (Belgium). The plants described are obtained from a fresh- 

 water deposit and are of a fragmentary nature ; the flora is 

 remarkable for the relatively large number of ferns included, 

 while the cycads are absent and the conifers rare. Twenty 

 species of plants are recognised, more than half of which are 

 known also from England and Germany. The memoir is well 

 illustrated by four plates and several text-figures. 



Since the publication in our last number of a list of forth- 

 coming science books, we have received the list of announcements 

 of Mr. Gustav Fischer, of Jena. It is as follows :— " Atlas der 

 topographischen Anatomie des Menschen," by Profs. Bardeleben 

 and Haeckel, Zweite viillig umgearbeitete und vermehrte 

 Auflage ; " Organographie der Pflanzen, insbesondere der 

 NO. 161 5, VOL. 62] 



Archegoniaten und Samenpflanzen," by Prof. Goebel, Zweiter 

 Teil, 2 Heft, Erster Teil ; " Klinisches Jahrbuch," Siebenter 

 Band, Funftes Heft ; '* Lehrbuch der vergleichenden 

 Anatomie der wirbellosen Tiere," by Prof. A. Lang, Zweite 

 umgearbeitete Auflage, Erste Lieferung, Mollusca ; " Die 

 Grundlagen und die Methoden fiir die mikroskopische Unter- 

 suchung von Pflanzenpulvern," by Prof. A. Meyer ; " Aetiologie 

 und Prophylaxe der Lungentuberkulose," by Dr. J. Ruhemann ; 

 " Anatomisch-klinische Vortrage aus dem Gebiete der Nerven- 

 pathologie," by Prof. K. Schaffer ; " Praktikum der physio- 

 logischen Chemie," by Prof. Fr. N. Schulz ; " Lehrbuch der 

 Histologie und der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen 

 mit Einschluss der mikroskopischen Technik," by Prof. P, 

 Stoehr, Neunte verbesserte Auflage ; " Das Neuron in Anatomie 

 und Physiologic," by Prof. Max Verworn, 



Mr. H. K. Lewis promises the following new books : — 

 " Blood and Blood Pressure," by Dr. G. Oliver ; and new 

 editions of " Hygiene and Public Health," by Dr. Louis 

 Parkes : "Medical Electricity," by Dr. Lewis Jones ; "The 

 Student's Medical Dictionary" and "A Pocket Medical 

 Dictionary," by Dr. G. M. Gould. 



Messrs. Lovell Reeve and Co., Ltd., have in preparation a 

 " Monograph of the Membracidae," by G. B. Buckton, F.R.S., 

 who will be glad to hear, through the publishers, from entomo- 

 logists and others as to specimens which they have reason 

 to believe are as yet unknown to science. 



Messrs. Williams and Norgate announce : — " The Opus 

 Majus of Roger Bacon," edited with introduction and analytical 

 table by J. H. Bridges. 



Mr. Martinus Nijhoff, bookseller, of the Hague, has 

 just issued the first part of his classified natural science catalogue 

 containing nearly 2500 entries. 



The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens during the 

 past week include a Vervet Monkey (Cercopithecus lalandii) 

 from South Africa, presented by Lieut. Sullivan ; a Black- 

 backed Jackal (Ca;«V w^^fow^/a^) from South Africa, presented 

 by Mr. J. E. Matcham ; a Two-spotted Paradoxure (Nandinia 

 binotata) from West Africa, presented by Mr. R. G. Pointer ; a 

 Vulpine Phalanger ( Trichosurus vulpecula) from Australia, pre- 

 sented by Miss Bartlett ; a Blue-faced Amazon (Ckrysotis versi^ 

 color) from St. Lucia, West Indies, presented by Miss M. 

 Moon ; two Greek Tortoises ( Testudo graeca), European, pre- 

 sented by Sister Heather Grey; a Chameleon {Chamaeleon 

 vulgaris) from North Africa, presented by Mrs. E. Putz ; a 

 Bonnet Monkey {Macacus sinicus) from India, two Pucheran's 

 Guinea Fowls {Guttera fucherani) from Somaliland ; a Large 

 Grieved Tortoise (Podocnemis expansa) from the Amazons; a 

 Greek Tortoise (Testudo graeca), European, deposited; two 

 Common Rattlesnakes [Crotalus durissus), two Water Vipers 

 Ancistrodon piscivorus), two Copper-head Vipers {Ancistrodon 

 contortrix), two Mocassin Snakes ( Tropidonotus fasciatus), a 

 Hog-nosed Snake {Heterodon platy rhinos) from North America, 

 received in exchange. 



