464 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Dr. Wallich’s article on the Radiolaria contain an amount of 
interesting information which will amply repay perusal. If our 
readers will pardon an allusion to our own labours, we may add 
that the volume before us contains a long essay by the Editor of 
this journal on the extinct British Wolf. In this article, which 
occupies nearly fifty pages, the geological and historical evidence of 
the former existence of the Wolf in the British Islands is fully dealt 
with, and some curious particulars, extracted from State Papers, 
Public Records, Privy Council Books, and a variety of other sources, 
are furnished. “So far as can be now ascertained, it appears that the 
Wolf became extinct in England during the reign of Henry VII.; 
that it survived in Scotland until 1743; and that the last of these 
animals was killed in Ireland, according to Richardson, in 1770, 
or, according to Sir James Emerson Tennent, subsequently to 
1766.” For the evidence from which these conclusions are drawn, 
we must refer our readers to the article in question. 
Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society. 
Vol. II. Norwich: Fletcher and Son. 1878. 
THE fourth part of the second volume of these excellent 
‘Transactions, recently issued, deserves special notice, since it 
contains, amongst other things, a series of twenty-three letters, 
written between the years 1822 and 1841, by and to such well- 
known zoologists as Richard Lubbock, Hoy, Girdlestone, Selby, 
Yarrell, and Robert Hamond, and prefaced by short biographical 
notices of each. This series is communicated by Mrs. Richard Lub- 
bock and Professor Newton, and will have much value in the eyes of 
naturalists, not only on account of the many facts thus placed on 
record, and well worth preserving, concerning the fauna and flora 
of Norfolk and Suffolk at the time when these letters were written, 
but also as affording an insight into the pursuits of some of the 
many earnest naturalists who flourished in the counties above 
named in the first half of the present century. We might extract 
many passages from this correspondence which are well worth 
quoting, but as the part of the ‘Transactions’ containing it may 
be had from the Secretary of the Society, or from the Publishers, 
for a couple of shillings, we recommend our readers to peruse it in 
its entirety. 
WEST, NEWMAN AND CO., PRINTERS, 04, HATTON GARDEN, LONDON. 
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