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task ; many of the brave workers have died since then, yet the task 

 still remains unfinished. Yet notwithstanding our losses, the 

 heroes of our modern Argo are an indomitable body, and its ranks 

 are ever being renewed by fresh paleeontological volunteers. 



In our last number we recorded the death of our late Secretary, 

 Professor Wiltshire, who for 36 years had carried on the adminis- 

 tration of the Society. His place is now filled by Dr. Arthur 

 Smith Woodward, F.E.S., while many new contributors (himself 

 among the number) have been added to our body. 



In the present volume Professor S, H. Eeynolds takes up the 

 unfinished work on " The Pleistocene Mammalia," commenced by 

 Messrs. Boyd Dawkins & Sanford in ]864, and continued till 

 1871 ; since then, with the exception of a short account of the 

 Pleistocene Cervidse by Professor Boyd Dawkins in 1886, the 

 original authors have abandoned their work, which is now taken 

 up by Mr. Eeynolds. The present fasciculus forms part 1 of 

 vol. ii, and is devoted to "The Cave Hygena," the illustrations 

 being mostly taken from the wonderful series of Hysena remains 

 from Wookey Hole in the Mendips, now preserved in the Taunton 

 Museum. Six out of the fourteen plates were executed long ago by 

 the late Mr. W. Bidgood, formerly curator of the Taunton Museum ; 

 the others are newly drawn by Mr. J. Green, one or two from the 

 British Museum collection and others from that of Owens College, 

 Manchester. The Society is to be congratulated upon securing 

 the services of Professor Eeynolds for this important work on 

 vertebrate palasontology. 



The next monograph is a new one on the " Fossil Fishes of the 

 English Chalk," by Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, and is illustrated 

 by thirteen very fine plates by Mr. A. H. Searle and twelve drawings 

 and restorations of HuryfhoUs, Odontostomus, Chlorophthahms 

 (recent), Sardinioides, Jloplopteryx [Beryx), Beryx sflendens- 

 (recent), Berycopsis elegans, Aipichthys, admirably drawn by Miss 

 G. M. Woodward. One plate is an autotype of a group of Chalk 

 fishes of the genus Hoplopteryx from the Beckles Collection in 

 the British Museum, by Mr. Green. Fifty-six pages of descriptive 

 letterpress are issued with this very important memoir. 



The third monograph is a continuation of the " Cretaceous 

 Lamellibranchia of England," by Henry Woods, M.A., part iv, 

 being devoted to the Chalk Pectens. The twelve plates are very 

 ably rendered by Mr. Hollick. 



The concluding monograph is a continuation of that on British 

 Graptolites by Gertrude L. Files & Ethel M. E. Wood, edited by 

 Prof. Charles Lapworth, F.E.S. There is an interesting introduction, 

 and the following genera are described and figured : Tefragraptus, 

 ScMzograptus, Trochograptiis, Holograptus, jDichograptus, Logano- 

 graptus, Clonograptus, Temnograptus, Bryographis, Azygograptus, and 

 Phyllograptus. We confess to a feeling of disappointment in the 

 production of the very careful original drawings by process in these 

 plates. We prefer an accurate, clear, distinct outline to each figure. 

 We are quite sure these are most accurate, but they are neither so 



