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Its clear and faultless printing on good paper, the trustworthy 

 authority for the determinations, and the elaborate care taken with 

 synonyms and localities, altogether make this book handy, easily 

 consulted, and of exceeding value — indeed indispensable — to all 

 geologists interested in or occupied with Vertebrate Fossils. 



North- American Geology and Palaeontology for the use of Amateurs, 

 Students, and Scientists. By S. A. Miller. Large 8vo, pp. 664. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio : 1889. Dulau and Co., London. 



The first edition of this v\ork was published in 1877 and duly 

 noticed in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. (January 1878) 

 pp. 1)9-101. A " second edition " (so called, but in reality only a 

 Supplement) was published early in 1S83 (with a short preface, 

 consisting mainly of extracts from letters of approval) and bound 

 up together with a reissue of the first edition aud an index to both 

 in the same volume, making 334 pages (88 more than the first 

 edition). The third edition, now before us, consisting of 664 pages, 

 takes on a new feature by the reproduction of a great many 

 (1194) woodcuts illustrative of Paleozoic genera and species found 

 fossil in Canada and the United States. Eighty-five pages are 

 occupied with an extended notice of Geology in general and tho 

 geological structure of North America in particular, worked up 

 from the Reports of various State Surveys, which was confined to 

 nineteen pages in the first edition. On the other hand, Prof. E. W. 

 Claypole's essay on the " Construction of Systematic Names in 

 Pakeontology," pp. vii-xv in the first edition, has been modified 

 into eleven dogmatic pages (90-100) on " Nomenclature." 



Introductory remarks and classifications are given for both the 

 Vegetable and Animal Kingdom and for the Classes and Orders as 

 far as their Palaeozoic members are concerned. In the Molluscoida 

 only the Bryozoa [Polyzoa, Busk] have a place, the Brachiopoda 

 being relegated to the Mollusca. 



Diagnoses of the genera are copied or attempted throughout, and 

 many new genera and species, determined by the author himself, 

 are included with figures. 



It would have been well had the author given his attention to all 

 the critical remarks offered in the review of his book in January 

 1878. We might even now repeat much of what was there stated, 

 especially about diphthongs being often ignored and words and 

 references in German and French being printed without a fit know- 

 ledge of these modern languages. Indeed, when the reader refers 

 to the remarks on Orophocrinus versus Codonites at p. 265, he finds 

 not only a characteristic sample of how German words are mis- 

 printed, but wo see a sad example of narrow, dogmatic, and invidious 

 treatment of the German language, of a German scientific periodical, 

 and of a German palaeontologist ! 



We think that Mr. S. A. Miller has acted very wisely in omitting 

 his etymological explanations of the meaning of specific names from 



