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drawings of the various fossils, are supplemented by useful enlarged 

 sketches of scales by Dr. Traquair himself. Dr. Smith Woodward's 

 contribution this year treats of very fragmentary fish-remains from 

 the English Chalk, chiefly ChimaBroid jaws and Selachian teeth, but 

 it will prove invaluable to collectors of these fossils. It is illustrated 

 by lithographs by Mr. A. H. Searle, and there are the usual 

 explanatory text-figures by Miss G. M. Woodward. The comparison 

 of the Cretaceous Seapanorhynehns with the existing Mitmlairina from 

 Japanese seas is especially interesting. Mr. Henry Woods' monograph 

 of Cretaceous Lamellibranchia now enters upon an account of Inoceramus, 

 which is most profusely illustrated by Mr. Brock and supplies a long- 

 felt want. The species are so numerous that those of the Chalk 

 itself are scarcely reached in the new part, and we still eagerly await 

 the next instalment, for which, the material must now be almost 

 overwhelming and need much study. Of the monograph of British 

 Graptolites there is a large section, and it suffices to note that 

 Miss Elles and Mrs. Shakespear attain their usual standard of 

 excellence. The enlarged drawings, as before, are placed in the text, 

 while figures of the natural size, which can be examined by a lens, 

 occupy the collotype plates. Mr. B. I. Pocock's small complete 

 monograph of the Terrestrial Carboniferous Arachnida of Great Britain, 

 illustrated by numerous text-figures and three lithographic plates by 

 Miss Gr. M. Woodward, is a noteworthy contribution to the volume. 

 Mr. Focock has industriously amassed material from all collections, 

 and the result is truly astonishing. Much progress has been made 

 during recent years in the discovery and description of Palaeozoic 

 Arachnids, and the restored figures which Mr. Pocock is now able to 

 publish of several species are especially novel and interesting. 



The Palseontographical Society is to be congratulated on the manner 

 in which it continues to perform its double function of enabling 

 stratigraphers to name their fossils, and of providing material for 

 zoologists to compare living and extinct organisms. Subscribers 

 appear still to be fewer than the Society needs for its full activities, 

 and some of the plates in the new volume have been paid for by the 

 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. All who are interested 

 should communicate with the Secretary, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, 

 British Museum (Nat. Hist.), South Kensington, S.W. 



II. — Extinct Monsters anb Creatures of other dats. By the 

 Bev. H. JST. Hutchinson, H.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S. New 

 edition, pp. xxxiv and 330, with 55 plates and 113 text-figures. 

 London: Chapman & Hall, 1910. 



ALTHOUGH to the trained scientific observer all fossil animal- 

 or plant-remains are interesting, it is not so with the 

 ordinary Museum-visitor, for size and a certain resemblance .to- 

 living animals appeal more to the popular imagination than in- 

 comprehensible or diminutive structures. These are the points that 

 led Mr. Hutchinson some years ago to publish his well-known book 

 on extinct monsters, and the necessity of bringing out a third edition 

 showed that to his and to his publishers' great joy he had not failed 



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