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lUHLKMJltAPHlCAL NOTICK. 



P)'aclical Zouloi/i/ for Medical nnd Janinr Students. I{j- J. D. F. 

 (in,riii{isr and C. vox ISondk. I'p. xi-f-^-O, Ido text f injures. 

 Edinburgh: E. and S. Livingstone, r.»22. Price \os. net. 



Tins hook is intended for etudents of elementary zoolojrj', and, ae it 

 is designed especially for use in South Africa, it includes directions 

 for the study not only of animals commonly used in laboratories in 

 this country, but also of certain South African types. Each alter- 

 nate page is left l)Iank for the reception of the .student's notfs and 

 drawings. The numerous illustrations are, with few exceptions, 

 original, and are clear and well reproduced. 



The treatment is on strictly traditional lines, and the work is 

 more likely to be useful in South Africa than in this country, where 

 it is hardly likely to displace the well-tried text-books now in use. 

 Only two South African types are described in detail — namely, the 

 crawfish, Jasua, and the platana, or clawed toad, Xenopiis. In the 

 accounts of these we find some very surprising statements indeed. 

 For instance, it is stated that in Jasns there arc no appendages on 

 tlio last abdominal somite (p. 94), and the autennulc of the same 

 animal is described as follows : — " Tlio protopodite is two jointed, 

 the ondopodite is a single two-jointed rod terminating in two small 

 flagella, and the cxopodit^ is absent" (p. 102). 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



OEOLOfUCAL SOCIETY. 



Ai)ril 12th, 1!»22.— Prof. A. C. Seward, Sc.D., F.R.S., President, 

 and afterwards Dr. II. H. Thomas, V.P.O.S., in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' ( )n a Collection of Carboniferous Plants from Peru.' Dy 

 Albert Charles Seward, Sc.D., F.K.S., Pres.G.S. 



The plants described by the Author were collected by Mr. J. A. 

 Douglas in 1911 from coal-bearing strati on the south side of the 

 Peninsula of Pamcas, a few miles S(Uith of Pisco on the coast of 

 Peru. Although the specimens are few in number and for the 

 greater i>art fnigmentary, they are of considerable interest: they 

 demonstrate the oecvwrence on the coast of Peru of Carboniferous 

 strata ; whether the plants should l>e referred to an I'pjier or a 

 Lower hori/on is not certain. Hitlnrto no fossiliferous Paheozoic 

 rocks have been recorded from the Peruvian coast. 



