340 Bibliographical Notices. 



the text, for very many were execrably bad in the earlier edition, 

 and might have unfortunately been repeated even now ; for we still 

 see here and there the ugly mark of the illiterate amateur — for 

 instance, where lepas in turrilepas is " a scale," and where such a 

 derivation as lepis, a scale, and dittos, double, is given for Leper- 

 ditia, which is really derived from the name of M. Leperdit, of 

 llennes. In this instance, as in others, we see that the author has 

 not referred to the original nor to some later accounts of the genus. 

 Indeed, it seems probable that the author's personal researches in 

 palaeontological books and scientific periodicals, whether British, 

 French, or German, have been too limited for any one presuming to 

 treat so extensively of fossil organisms as this Catalogue is supposed 

 to do. The book is designed on a good basis, and doubtless this 

 edition is better and therefore more useful than its predecessors ; but 

 the author's more accomplished friends, of different specialities, might 

 aid him very much both philologically and pala'ontologically in a 

 future revision of his Catalogue. 



The hard pedantry of refusing initial capitals in specific names, 

 of having only one letter " i " in the genitive masculine, of dog- 

 matically altering grapsus (in combination) to graptus, of ignoring 

 the masculine gender of the Latinized words cheilus or chilas, rhyn- 

 clius, and phyciis (in combination), because the Greek forms are 

 neuter, is not good even in the dog-Latin of modern naturalists. 



Although " Students and Scientists " may escape unhurt among 

 the errors and weaknesses of this Catalogue, we are sorry for the 

 " Amateurs," led by an amateur who tells them (in his Glossary, 

 pp. 629 et seep) that w.gilops is " an acorn," altilis " flattened," 

 aueella " a little bird," bellulus " very pretty," breviusculus " very 

 short," cerasiformis " like a dried cherry," dikrocheilus " two- 

 edged," euginum "fertile," insectus "uncut," mummiformis (!) 

 " resembling a mummy," temerarivs " accidental, casual," vadosus 

 " full of shadows," and above all "gracilius, a, um" " majus, a, urn," 

 and "minus, a, um" the neuter comparative forms of gracilis, mag- 

 nus, and parvus ! Had he given us also plus, pla, plum, he would 

 have made the series nearly complete ! 



A Catalogue of North- American Paleozoic Crustacea, confined to the 

 non-Trilohi'tic Genera and Species. By Anthony W. Vogdes. 

 Printed in advance of vol. v. no. 1 of the ' Annals of the New- 

 York Academy of Sciences.' Svo. 38 pages, 2 plates, and some 

 woodcuts. Author's edition. Fort Hamilton, New York Har- 

 bour, November 1889. 



A systematic arrangement of the genera under orders and families 

 occupies five pages aud a half, and the annotated catalogue of the 

 American species follows, with nine woodcuts (mostly outline dia- 

 grams) of types and two lithographic plates, one of them illustrating 

 Xiphusures and Euryptcrids from a plate in Dr. H. Woodward's 

 memoir, 1867, and the other Ostracods and Phyllopods from T. 



