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Notes and Comments. 



part 20 has now been published by Messrs. Gurney cS: Jackson, 

 at 3/6. It deals with the House Mouse, the St. Kilda House 

 Mouse, Beaver and the Squirrel. 



TRAUSTEDTIA MULTITEXTACULATA . 



We must admit that at first we considered the illustration 

 of the animal reproduced herewith to be a caricature of a 

 Japanese soldier on the war-path, such as one sees on the 

 Japanese shields, etc. Actually, howev^er, it is a solitary 

 form of Tra7istedtia multitentac^tlata, which is described bv 



Dr. Asajiro Oka in the first part of Vol. X. of Annotafiones 

 Zoologicae Japonencses, recently issued by the Tokio Zoo- 

 logical Society. We are glad to observe that this very 

 valuable publication, much of which is printed in English, 

 still appears regularly. 



EARTHQUAKES. 



A Manual of Seismology* has appeared front the pen of 

 Dr. Charles Davison, whose numerous papers on earthquake 

 phenomena, which have appeared in various scientific journals, 

 are well known, and whose book on the ' Study of Recent 

 Earthcjuakes,' is a remarkable compilation. In the present 



* Cambridge L'niveisity Press, 250 pp. 11 >- lut. 



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