REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
NEW SHILLING BOOKS. 
In view of the fact that, until a few years ago, scientific books were 
generally exceptionally expensive, it is gratifying to find that we 
are now able to purchase neatly-printed and well-bound volumes, by our 
best scientific writers, for the small price of a shilling. We have five 
such works before us. The first is issued for the Rationalist Press 
Association, by Messrs. Watts & Co., London, and is entitled ‘ History of 
Anthropology ’ by Dr. A. C. Haddon (158 pp.). This may be said to be 
the first attempt towards a History of the Science of Anthropology, and 
in the capable hands of Dr. Haddon, the work is all that can be desired. 
He deals with the Pioneers and Systematisers of the Science ; Controver- 
sies; the Antiquity of Man; Psychology; Distribution of Man ;° Ethno- 
logy ; Archeological Discovery; Technology; Sociology and Religion ; 
Linguistics; Cultural Classification, etc. There are several illustrations, 
the frontispiece being a portrait of E. B. Tylor. The Cambridge Univer- 
sity Press is issuing a series of Manuals of Science and Literature, under 
the editorship of Dr. P. Giles and Prof. A. C. Seward. These are sold at 
1/- each, and the volumes referred to below are already published, each 
being perfect as regards typography, etc. The Coming of Evolution: 
The Story of a Great Revolution in Science (171 pp.) will be perhaps the 
most popular, and is by Dr. J. W. Judd. In this Dr. Judd refers to the 
origin of the idea of ev olution, and step by step gives a valuable historical 
review of the subject. The parts play ed by Scrope, Lyell, Darwin and 
Wallace are carefully dealt with, and there is a portrait of each of the 
authorities named. Needless to say the volume is most fascinating to 
read. Heredity in the light of recent research, is a companion volume, 
by Mr. L. Doneaster (140 pp.) Amongst the subjects discussed are Varia- 
tion, and its Causes; the Statistical Study of Heredity; Mendelian 
Heredity ; Some Disputed Questions; Heredity in Man, etc., etc. The 
book contains a most admirable summary of the subject. Plant 
Animals: a Study in Symbiosis, by F. Keeble (163 pp.) is in the same 
series. Prof. Keeble spent ten years in a small marine laboratory 
in Brittany, during which he paid considerable attention to the habits 
etc., of the minute worm-like animals found among seaweeds, and known 
as Convoluta. Two species particularly are dealt with—C. rvoscoffensis 
and C. paradoxa, a coloured plate and diagrams, etc., of which are given. 
‘The Natural History of Coal, by E. A. N. Arber (163 pp.), In this volume the 
author shews that the discussion on the origin of coal would be simplified 
if it were borne in mind that all coal was not formed in the same way. 
Mr. Arber deals with tne chemical and physical properties of coal, associated 
rocks, origin, terrestrial coals, estuarine and Lacustrine coals, etc. There 
is a useful bibliography, and several fine illustrations. 
Proceedings Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. XVII., Pt. 2, 1910, 
publ. 1911, 71 pp. 
This excellent Yorkshire Society has issued a volume containing three 
admirable papers, dealing with the geology of the Isle of Man, Lancashire, 
Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire. In the past it has made Yorkshire 
the field of its operatigns, and there is still much to be done in that county. 
Dr. Wheelton Hind,describes four new Carboniferous Nautiloids, and a 
. Goniatite new to -Britain,, Mr. E. A. Newell Arber describes the Fossil 
Flora of the Coalfields in Nottinghamshire and North Derbyshire, and 
Mr. F. W. White:;,describes the Complex of Igneous Rocks at Oatland, 
Isle of Man. , All three are valuable, and well illustrated. There are also 
obituary notices ‘of the -late.C. Fox-Strangways and J. R. Dakyns; the 
latter we have seen before, and a footnote might perhaps have been added, 
if merely to say that a-list of Dakyns’ w orks was given in The Naturalist 
for November last. There are some unnecessary misprints, Etc: 
Naturalist, 
