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duction of so valuable a work ; and we can only hope that the 

 execution of the other portions of the ' Fauna ' will be equally 

 satisfactory. The names of the gentlemen to whom the different 

 classes have been entrusted, may, indeed, be taken as a guarantee 

 for the good quality of the work. The volumes on Fishes have been 

 undertaken by Mr. Francis Day, and those on Reptiles and Batrachia 

 by Mr. G. A. Boulenger ; while Dr. Blanford tells us that it is 

 hoped the Birds will be taken charge of by Mr. E. W. Gates. 



We shall look forward with great expectations to the completion of 

 the series ; and we cannot forbear expressing a hope that some means 

 may be found of extending the scheme eventually so as to include 

 the Invertebrate fauna, at any rate of the land and fresh waters, of 

 the Indian district. That there is room for something of the kind 

 is evidenced by the publication of a book which was noticed in this 

 Journal some time ago ; and, indeed, we understand that there is 

 alread)- a movement on foot for the systematic investigation of the 

 Entomology of British India. 



A BihUorjraphy of the Foraminifera, Recent and Fossil, from 1565 

 to 1888. By C, Davies Shee'bokn, F.G.S. Svo. Pp. i-viii and 

 1-152. Dulau and Co., London, 



FoBAMiNiFEEA, both recent and fossil, have often been described and 

 figured and their somewhat confused nomenclature treated of in the 

 ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History.' AVe are much pleased 

 to be now able to recommend to the notice of naturalists and geolo- 

 gists a complete bibliography of this group of Protozoa. They are 

 mostly microscopic and interminably various in their often very 

 elegant forms ; hence their study has often been taken up by ob- 

 servers with enthusiasm, but without suthcient knowledge of what 

 had been done by others before them in the same line of research. 



Mr, C. D. Sherborn has collated all previously published cata- 

 logues (down to 1888), and, correcting many of their entries, has 

 added not only the latest books and papers treating of this group of 

 Microzoa, but many that had escaped notice, including especially 

 some published in 1712, 1717, 1754, 1791, and 1803. These are 

 mentioned in his preface ; and notes are also given of rare and 

 little-known memoirs. The very numerous papers on P'oraminifera 

 by C, G, Ehrenberg *, occupying five and a half pages, have 

 never before been so carefully enumerated and annotated as at 

 pp. 41-47, The many important memoirs published by Hungarian 

 rhizopodists are now for the first time catalogued. These and all 

 the other foreign titles are given with the same perfect literary 

 accuracy as that with which the English books and papers are 

 entered ; and altogether very few (nine) errata have had to be noted 

 at p, vii (with thirteen valuable addenda), and the reader can 

 scarcely find a mispiint in the type. The titles of papers are given 



* See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 187l', vols, ix. and x. 



