158 Bibliographical Notice. 
This new species extends the range of the genus Chloritis, 
no species having hitherto been recorded from this group. 
The habitat is recorded by Mr. Hirase as Oshima, prov. 
Osumi. The island Oshima, although politically united to 
the province of Osumi in Southern Kiusiu, belongs geogra- 
phically to the Loo-Choo Islands. The same remarks apply 
to the island Kikai, which has recently misled Mr. C. F. 
Ancey * to include two Loo-Choo shells—Eulota despecta and 
E. connivens—in the Japanese fauna. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
Cours de Botanique :—Anatomie ; Physiologie; Classification ; Ap- 
plications agricoles, industrielles, médicales ; Morphologre expéri- 
mentale; Géographie botanique: Paléontologie: Historique. Par 
MM. Gaston Bonnier et Lecrerc pu Santon. Al’usage des Eléves 
des Universités, des Ecoles de Médecine et de Pharmacie, et des 
Ecoles d’Agriculture. Tome premier, Fascicule I. Paris: Jules 
Peelman, 1901. 8vo. Pp. 1-384. 
Tuts is the first instalment of a work whose extent may be gauged 
by the title above cited. The entire work will extend to about 
2500 pages, with more than 3000 figures, mostly drawn from 
nature, and to be concluded in the year 1903. 
We always open a new French introduction with interest, for 
though it seems hard to present a new face to a well-worn theme, 
yet we usually find some detail of interest conspicuously brought 
into prominence. It is so here, though the particular feature seems 
more adapted to the wants of a private student destitute of the help 
ot a teacher; yet the use of it may be recommended in the case 
even of a student in a well-appointed laboratory under a competent 
teacher. The plan indicated is that of giving a résumé at the end of 
a chapter or section, which will re-direct the pupil’s attention to 
points which must not be overlooked. 
After some preliminary generalities the authors proceed to deal 
with the Morphology of the Angiosperms, the Stem and Root being 
here given, and the consideration of the Flower and Fruit will be 
taken up in the succeeding fasciculus. ‘The scheme then is to give 
an account of the Angiosperms in general, the Gymnosperms, and 
Cryptogams, after which are to come Physiology, Experimental Mor- 
phology, Geographic Botany, Paleontology, concluding with a section 
on Evolution. 
In working out this plan the authors take certain types in each 
section and explain their structure, taking care to employ common 
plants, so as to permit the student to readily follow the description 
with the type before him. ‘Thus, in the Leaf the types selected are 
Buttercup, Veronica, Narcissus Tazetta, and Arundo Donax. 
We shall be glad to see the continuation of this attractive volume. 
* Journ. de Conchyl. xlix. (1901) pp. 141, 142. 
