Reviews — 8herborn's Index AnimaKum. 87 



clear nor so distinct as we could desire ; and there is a dread that 

 this highly-surfaced paper will, after some years, perish, being 

 overloaded with kaolin. There are quite a number of process-blocks 

 in the text, some of which give most clear details, such as we desire, 

 but others are less satisfactory. We look back with admirationfto 

 Professor Lapworth's own original drawings in this Magazine, the 

 Quart. Journ, Geol. Soc, and elsewhere, which are to our minds 

 more satisfying, notwithstanding the great labour which the authors 

 have expended on the present monograph. 



Taken as an annual issue, this is a fine volume, containing, as 

 it does, 207 pages of descriptive text, 47 plates, and numerous 

 illustrations in the text, together with 30 pages of introductory 

 matter, the whole of which can be obtained for the small subscription 

 of one guinea. 



We expect to find that, after this announcement, Messrs. 

 Dulau & Co., 37, Soho Square, and the Secretary, Dr. Arthur Smith 

 Woodward, will have a busy time in satisfying the demands of the 

 many new and enthusiastic subscribers who will send in their names 

 and cheques ! 



II. — Sherborn's Index Nominum Animalittm, 1758-1800. 



Index Animalium, sive index nominum quse ab a.d. mdoclviii 

 generibus et speciebus animalium imposita sunt societatibus 

 eruditorum adjuvantibus, a Carolo Davies Sherborn, confectus, 

 sectio prima a kalendis januariis bidcclviii usque ad finem 

 Decembris mdccc. Cantabrigise e typographic academico 

 MDCCCCii. Eoy. 8vo ; pp. lix, 1196. (London : C. J. Clay & Sons, 

 Cambridge University Press Warehouse, Ave Maria Lane, 1902. 

 Price 2os. net.) 



THE Syndics of the Cambridge University Press having undertaken 

 the publication of the first part of the " Index Animalium," to 

 the preparation of which Mr. C. Davies Sherborn has devoted so 

 many years, it seems desirable to explain the nature of the work 

 upon which so much time, labour, and expense have been bestowed. 

 The object of the Index is to provide zoologists with a complete list 

 of all generic and sjjecific names given by authors to animals, both 

 recent and fossil, since January 1st, 1758, the date of the tenth 

 edition of Linnaeus' " Systema Naturae." With each name is given 

 an exact date, and a reference intelligible to the layman as well as 

 to the specialist. 



The British Association appointed a Special Committee to watch 

 over the inception and progress of the work, the preparation of which 

 was undertaken in 1890.^ Financial support has been given by the 

 British Association, the Royal and the Zoological Societies, while 

 the authorities of the British Museum (Natural History) have afi"orded 

 continual assistance. 



1 An interval of three years was unfortunately lost by the author from ill-health, 

 so that the completion of this first volume has occupied a period of eight years, a no 

 inconsiderable task for one man to undertake and carry through to completion. 



