372 News from the Magazines. 
Sable and Oryx; Wildebeest, Damaliscus, and Hartebeest; Buffaloes ; 
Bushbucks, Sitatungas, Koodoos, Bongos, and Elands; Waterbucks and 
Reedbucks; Duikers and Small Antelopes; Gazelles and their Allies ; 
Dikdiks ; Hook-Lipped or Black Rhinoceros ; White or Square-Mouthed 
Rhinoceros ; Common Zebra or Bonte-Quagga ; Grévy Zebra; Elephants ; 
Equipment, Arms and Preservation of Specimens. There is also a valuable 
bibliography of East Equatorial Africa. As illustrative of the magnitude 
of scientific research by Americans we may say that the expedition was 
fitted out at the instigation of the Smithsonian Institution, Mr. Roosevelt 
himself paying 2ths of the expenses. As a result of the expedition ‘ the 
biological collections in the National Museum from East Africa, are 
probably the most complete of any in the world.’ The following is a list 
of the specimens obtained :— 
= = Specimens. 
Mammals .. os Be as 5,013 
Birds : 53 oa 4,453 
Birds’ Eggs ‘and Nests .. $e PRL 
Reptiles ‘and Batrachians Rs 2222 
Fish : ; Bs 447 
Plants hs eas a6 oe 5,135 
ImSECGts eae 40 aS be 3,500 
Shells ae he 1,500 
Miscellaneous Invertebrates... 650 
Total” sane 23 hss: 
The volumes are remarkably well produced and illustrated, and form 
quite a picture gallery of photographs of African game. The spelling, of 
course, 1s American. : 
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The Lvish Naturalist for October contains a summary of ‘The Clare 
Island Survey ’ by Dr. R. F. Scharff. 
The Geological Magazine Nos. 615-616 contain an ticle On aslhemlice 
Age in England’ by Dr. Nils Olof Holst. 
In The Zoologist for August, Dr. J. M. Dewar writes on ‘ The Relation 
of the Oyster Catcher to its Natural Environment.’ _ 
The: Geological Magazine for August contains an account of ‘A New 
Oxfordian Plesiosaur,’ by Wim.-R. Smellie, and ‘ Notes on the River Tyne 
Drainage Area,” by E. Merrick. 
British Birds for September contains ‘ Notes on the Breeding Habits 
of the Asiatic Golden Plover,’ by Maud D. Haviland. There is also a 
remarkably good crop of rare birds “seen in the flesh,’ in Sussex. 
Sir Thomas Holland’s address to the Conference of Delegates attending 
the meeting of the British Association, on ‘ The Organisation of Science,’ 
referred to in these columns last month, is printed in extenso in Natuve 
for Sept. 16th. 
The Scottish Naturalist for October includes papers by Wm. Eagle 
Clarke on ‘ The Wren of St. Kilda: its Status, Plumages, and Habits’ ; 
by Wm. Taylor on ‘The History of the Triassic Reptile Scleromochlus 
taylovi’; and by W. E. Collinge on ‘Some Observations on the Life 
History and Habits of the Terrestrial Isopoda (Woodlice).’ 
In The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for September, Mr. R. S. 
Bagnall appeals for specimens of British Campodeidae (Thysanura). From 
the limited specimens already available he has found three additions to 
our known fauna, some being from Northumberland and Durham. In 
the same journal Mr. M. G. L. Perkins states that the specimen which he 
previously recorded as Rhynchites auratus Q turns out to be merely a Q 
of Byctiscus betulett. 
Naturalist, 
