68 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
The Secretary then read the Report of the Council for 1876. 
The following gentlemen were elected Members of Council for 1877 :— 
Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, Professor Westwood, Rev. A. E. Eaton, Rev. 
T. A. Marshall, and Messrs. H. W. Bates, G. C. Champion, J. W. Douglas, 
J. W. Dunning, F. Grut, R. Meldola, E. Saunders, H. T. Stainton, and 
J. Jenner Weir. 
The following ‘officers were subsequently elected for the year 1877 :— 
President, Professor Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c.; Treasurer, J. Jenner 
Weir; Hon. Secretaries, Messrs. F. Grut and R. Meldola; Hon. Librarian, 
Rey. T. A. Marshall. 
The President (Prof. Westwood) having been unfortunately prevented 
from attending by an accident, the reading of his Address on the progress 
of Entomology for the past year was unavoidably postponed until the next 
meeting, on the 7th February. 
A cordial vote of thanks was given to the President, with an expression 
of regret at the cause of his absence on this occasion. A vote of thanks 
was also given to the Treasurer and Secretaries.—I’. G. 
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
The Geographical Distribution of Animals. By ALFRED RussEL 
WALLAceE. Two Vols., 8vo. London: Macmillan & Co. 1876. 
In the Preface to this important work the author describes it as 
“an attempt to collect and summarise the existing information on 
the distribution of land animals, and to explain the more remarkable 
and interesting of the facts, by means of established laws of physical 
and organic change.” 
Of living naturalists Mr. Wallace is probably the one best fitted, 
by his training and experience, to deal with the subject which he 
has undertaken: he is familiar with the aspects of life in three of 
the richest zoological provinces of the world,—namely, South 
America, and the Indo- and Austro-Malayan Archipelagos,—and 
those who know him personally are aware that the geographical 
distribution of animals has been a study with him for the last 
twenty years. The two published volumes which embody the 
result of his labours are divided into four parts, z.e., the Principles 
and General Phenomena of Distribution; the Distribution of 
Extinct Animals; Zoological Geography; and Geographical 
Zoology. 
