224 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
Notes by a Naturalist on the ‘Challenger’; being an Account of 
various Observations made during the Voyage of H.M.S. 
‘Challenger’ round the World in the years 1872—1876. By 
H. N. Moseney, M.A., F.R.S.  8vo, pp. 606. London: 
Macmillan & Co. 1879. 
In one respect it is a pity that the publication of this 
volume has been so long delayed; for those who were once curious 
to learn the results of this ‘“‘ Voyage” have, by this time, had so 
many books and articles on the subject laid before them that 
their curiosity may now be deemed to be well nigh satisfied. In 
1876, following the ‘ Reports’ of Capts. Sir G. Nares and F. T. 
Thomson, we had Lord George Campbell's ‘ Log-Letters from 
the Challenger,’ and in the same year Mr. Spry’s ‘Cruise of 
H.M.S. Challenger. In 1877 appeared Sir Wyville ‘Thomson's 
‘Voyage,’ in two volumes, and in 1878 Dr. Wild’s book ‘At 
Anchor ;’ while at least seventy or eighty papers on various 
points of interest in connection with the geology, meteorology, 
zoology, and botany of the voyage have been printed in the 
‘Transactions’ and ‘Proceedings’ of the Royal, Linnean, 
Zoological, and other Societies, and in the pages of various 
scientific journals. 
Mr. Moseley comes thus a little late into the field. Why 
nearly every member of the expedition should publish his 
individual experience and researches separately, instead of com- 
bining to produce one exhaustive and well-illustrated work, we 
cannot understand. A good opportunity, it seems to us, has been 
lost of making a valuable addition to that series of scientific 
voyages already published which has made famous the names of 
the ‘ Beagle,’ the ‘ Herald,’ and the ‘Erebus and Terror.’ As it 
is, readers have now to choose between a multiplicity of volumes 
in which, notwithstanding a difference of plan and style, there is, 
of necessity a good deal of sameness and repetition. 
Without drawing invidious comparisons, we venture to express 
thé opinion that Mr. Moseley’s work will commend itself, more 
than any of the others we have named, to the readers of this 
journal, And this for two reasons. It is written by a professed 
naturalist, and it is not confined to any special branch of the 
