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marine shells. Several of these plants were collected by Mr. E. B. 

 Luxmoore, who generously gave his best examples to the Geological 

 Department of the British Museum, the chief of which are here 

 described and figured. They mostly belong to the order Filicacece, 

 one being described as a new species, viz. Splienopteris Teiliana. 

 The elegant form of Adiantides antiquiis, Ett., is recorded as a 

 rare species from Britain. The geological notes to this paper are 

 taken from the works of Mr. G. H. Morton. 



The third contribution is an enlargement of the author's views as 

 set forth in a previous paper " On the Relationship of Ulodendron, 

 L. & H., to Lepidodendron, Sternb., Bothrodendron, L. & H., Sigillaria, 

 Brong., and Rhytidode.ndron, Boulay," Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1885. 



Descriptions and figures are given of Sigillaria discophora, Konig. 

 sp., Bothrodendron Wukianum, n. sp., and B. minutifolium, Boulay, sp. 

 . A large amount of literature is quoted throughout the papers, 

 but the absence of dates to the majority of the references is strongly 

 noticeable. Unless accuracy is attained in this section of Palasonto- 

 logical work, synonymy will be difficult to prove or understand. 

 The plates are very valuable, the figures having been drawn with 

 careful detail and precision by the author himself. R.B.N. 



IV. — A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. By Arthur 

 Smith Woodward, F.G.S., and Charles Davies Sherborn, F.G.S. 

 8vo. pp. xxxv. 396. (London, Dulau & Co., 1890.) 



NEARLY six-and-thirty years have elapsed since the late Prof. John 

 Morris published the second edition of his well-known and 

 still-useful Catalogue of British Fossils ; being the latest in which all 

 known species of British fossil Vertebrates are recorded ; and neces- 

 sarily its information falls short of the requirements of to-day; much 

 having been achieved in the meantime in discovery, description and 

 illustration of new forms, and also in revision and re- description of 

 many of the earlier described species. 



We therefore welcome the present volume as supplying a long-felt 

 want. And the authors are to be congratulated on its inception, 

 careful preparation, and its issue as a distinct publication. Its use- 

 fulness and merits will be fully recognized by all workers in this 

 division of palaeontological science. In respect to fulness of refer- 

 ence to the bibliography, number of localities cited, the amplitude 

 of the synonymy and other information relating to the group, 

 the Catalogue is the most comprehensive hitherto produced. The 

 labour of research and compilation has been great, and pursued with 

 persevering assiduity ; in many cases the earliest notices of discovery 

 of vertebrate remains, prior to that of specific description, have been 

 traced and quoted. The nature of the specimens that form the types 

 of species are stated ; and when ascertainable, their present location, 

 whether in private or public collections. References to the literature 

 are not restricted to the publications in which the respective species 

 were first described, but numerous original works and memoirs by 

 specialists and other writei's of acknowledged authority are also quoted. 

 As regards the nomenclature, with a few exceptions, the emenda- 



