358 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Volume IV., Part XI., and occupying 64 quarto pages with 
seven plates. 
When, to the grief of all who knew him, Forbes fell a 
victim to dysentery while travelling up the Niger in January, 
18838, it was resolved, at a meeting of the Zoological Club (of 
which he was a member), to reprint his scientific papers ih a 
memorial volume similar to that containing Garrod’s Scientific 
Papers, which Forbes himself had edited. The volume thus 
agreed upon has been ably edited by Mr. F. E. Beddard, the 
present Prosector to the Zoological Society, and has been 
recently issued to subscribers. We understand that a few copies 
are available for sale to the public, and those of our readers who 
do not possess sets of the periodicals to which Forbes’s papers 
were originally contributed will do well to obtain a copy of this 
valuable collection. 
Amongst the more interesting and useful papers in the 
volume may be mentioned the Reports on the Collections of 
Birds made during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘ Challenger,’ ‘‘ On the 
Anatomy of the African Elephant,” ‘On the Shedding of the 
Horns of the American Prongbuck,” ‘‘ Contributions to the 
Anatomy of Passerine Birds,” ‘“‘On the Anatomy of the Koala,” 
“On Garrod’s Contributions to Bird-Anatomy and Classifi- 
cation,” ‘‘On the Incubation of the Indian Python,” ‘‘On the 
Anatomy of the Great Anteater,” ‘On the Californian Sea- 
lion,” and “On the Petrels collected during the Voyage of the 
‘Challenger,’”’ already referred to; while the out-door naturalist 
will fully appreciate the papers reprinted from ‘ The Ibis’ “On 
the Nesting of the Spoonbill in Holland,” ‘‘ Eleven weeks in North- 
Eastern Brazil,’ and the author’s ‘‘ Last Journal,’ with which 
the volume closes. The book is admirably printed, and is illus- 
trated with all the plates (25 in number) which accompanied the 
original memoirs. 
Elementary Text-Book of Entomology. By W. F. Kirsy. 8vo, 
pp. 240, with 87 Plates containing 650 figures. London: 
Sonnenschein & Co. 1885. 
We are always glad to welcome new aids to Science, especially 
when such publications emanate from specialists, or from those 
who have the reputation of possessing a knowledge of the subjects 
