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O. W. Richardson ; ' The Laboratory of the Living Organism,' 

 by Dr. M. 0. Forster ; ' Experimental Geology,' by Dr. J. S. 

 Flett ; ' Some Problems in Evolution,' by Prof. E. S. Goodrich ; 

 ' The Application of Geography,' by Mr. D. G. Hogarth ; 

 ' The Principles by which Wages are determined,' by Mr. W. 

 L. Hichens ; ' Water Power,' by Prof. A. H. Gibson ; ' The 

 Boundaries of Physiology,' by Sir Walter M. Fletcher ; ' Con- 

 sciousness and the Unconscious,' by Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan ; 

 ' The Present Position of the Theory of Descent, in relation 

 to the early history of Plants,' by Dr. D. H. Scott ; 'The 

 Place of Music in a Liberal Education,' by Sir Henry Hadow ; 

 ' The Study of x^gricultural Economics,' by Mr. C. S. Orwin ; 

 and 'The Message of Science,' by Sir Richard Gregory. We 

 only wish we were able to reprint each one in this journal ! 



ZOOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



In the ' Report of the Committee on Zoological Biblio- 

 graphy and Publication,' submitted at Edinburgh, we learn 

 that in The Naturalist for September ist, 1920, the chief 

 recommendations were quoted, and contributors asked to 

 adhere to them. The editor of the Yorkshire Geological 

 Society consulted the Secretary of the Committee on the correct 

 way of writing specific names. Since the particular instances 

 occurred in a paper on palaeobotany, the reply sent was kindly 

 read and approved by Dr. A. B. Rendle. Many zoologists 

 otherwise competent seem unaware that an author's name 

 should be enclosed in brackets, e.g. Dalmanites caudatus 

 (Briinnich), only when the species has been transferred from 

 the genus in which the author originally placed it, e.g. Trilobus 

 caudatus Briinnich. It would be equally correct to write 

 Dalmanites caudatus Briinnich sp. There is also confusion 

 in some minds as to the use of brackets in connection with 

 generic and subgeneric names. The trilobite just mentioned 

 was long placed in the genus Phacops ; this fact may be 

 indicated thus — Dalmanites [Phacops] caudatus. At first 

 Dalmanites was regarded as a subgenus of Phacops, and this 

 would have been indicated correctly by : Phacops {Dalmanites) 

 caudatus. 



NUMBER OF SECTIONS. 



An Extraordinary Meeting of the General Committee was 

 held at Edinburgh to consider suggestions for a reduction in 

 the number of Sections. It was proposed by Dr. P. Chalmers 

 Mitchell, and seconded by Sir E. Sharpey Schafer, that the 

 Council be asked to take into further consideration the re- 

 organisation of the Sections, either by reducing their number 

 or by combining them, and to report to the General Committee. 

 The following amendment was proposed by Mr. D. Berridge, 



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