4586 Tue ZooLocist—Avuecust, 1875. 
such word in any language under the sun. Then again the title is very ob- 
jectionable: we should use easy words for a book that we desire to see in every 
schoolboy’s hands. Mr. Merrin has himself explained that he wished it to 
be a time-guide to the appearance of butterflies and moths: why not call it 
so? Perhaps “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but no 
other name being so familiar, we should fail to recognise the queen of 
flowers: it is silly to sacrifice universal intelligibility to an affectation of 
learning. The work, I repeat, is useful, but might be made much more so 
" by greater simplicity in the arrangement and phraseology. 
First, Second and Third Annual Reports of the United States Geological 
Survey of the Territories for the years 1867, 1868 and 1869. One 
Volume, demy 8vo, 260 pp., with numerous illustrations. 
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 
showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution 
Jor the year 1873. Washington, 1874. 452 pp. demy 8vo. 
Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of 
the Territories embracing Colorado, being a Report of Progress of 
Explorations for the year 1873. By F. V. Hayden, United States 
Geologist. 1874. Demy 8vo, 718 pp. and numerous illustrations. 
Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. By F. V. 
Hayden, United States Geologist in Chief. Vol. vi. Contributions to 
the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories. Parti. The Cretaceous 
Flora. By Leo Lesquereux. Washington, 1874. Royal 4to, 136 pp. 
letterpress and thirty plates. 
The plates are executed with great neatness and evident care; some of 
them represent ferns, and other phenogamous plants. 
These admirable Reports embrace the entire range of Biology and 
Paleontology, and are invaluable indices to the labours of American 
naturalists. 
Birds of the North-West: a Handbook of the Ornithology of the Region 
drained by the Missouri River and its Tributaries. By Elliott Coues, 
Captain and Assistant-Surgeon U.S. Army. Demy 8vo, 791 pp. 1874. 
A most valuable book, manifestly tending to disturb the fanciful 
quinary arrangement of Vigors, and dividing birds into ten orders— 
Passeres, Picarie, Psittaci, Raptores, Columba, Galline, Grallatores, 
Lamellirostres, Steganopodes, Longipennes, and Pygopodes. 
The Third Annual Report of the Board ef Managers of the Zoological 
Society of Philadelphia. Read at the Annual Meeting, April 22, 1875. 
The Report includes a plan of the gardens, and views of the carnivora 
buildings, bear-pits, monkey-house, aviary, and giraffes, a statement of 
