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is far too much slipshod stuff published now, and a word with a more 
experienced friend or with an intelligent editor would bring much of 
this sloppy, half-baked material into line with more mature writing, 
and render comparison and correlation much easier. The author 
does not deal with the somewhat threadbare subject of ‘‘ the pursuit 
of knowledge for its own sake”, which may be a purely selfish 
proceeding. At the present day it is more generally recognized that 
work of all kinds should be for the benefit of the community, and 
that the highest forms of research, like those of Pasteur and 
Koch, are such as are calculated to ameliorate the sufferings of 
humanity. 
VII.—Brier Noricrs, 
1. Fosstt Insecrs.—Dr. Anton Handlirsch, who has so elaborately 
worked out the history of fossil insects, is now actively at work 
describing the various new forms discovered in the rocks. We have 
before us a collection of his recent papers, and call attention to the 
following. ‘‘Ueber die fossilen Insekten aus dem mittleren Oberkarbon 
des Konigreiches Sachsen” (Mitth. Geol. Ges. Wien, 1909, ii). ‘These 
consist of Blattoid wings, and include a new genus, Apophthegma. 
Another Blattoid, Pedinodlatta, n.g., from the Franken Trias, appears 
in Abh. Nat. Ges. Niirnburg, 1910, xviii, the wing being carefully 
drawn and figured; while yet a third protorthopteron, Chalcorychus 
Walchie, is described in the author’s ‘‘ Kin neues fossiles Insekt aus 
den permischen Kupferschiefern der Kargala-Steppe (Orenburg)”’ 
(Mitth. Geol. Ges. Wien, 1909, 1). 
Dr. Handlirsch discusses the ‘‘frihjurassischer Copeognathen und 
Coniopterygiden’’ and ‘‘das Schicksal der Archipsylliden” in the 
Zoologischen Anzeiger, 1909, xxxv, and in the number of the same 
publication for May 10, 1910, gives a brief note—‘‘ Ueber die 
Phylogenie und Klassifikation der Mecopteren.” A full report of his 
lecture ‘‘ Ueber Relikten’’ will be found in the Verh. k.k. z00l.-botan. 
Ges. Wien, 1909, a lecture which dealt with many other forms 
besides insects; and a criticism of M. Fernand Meunier and his work 
on fossil insects, privately printed in 1906, may be lost sight of if not 
mentioned in these pages. 
2. CATALOGUE OF PuorocRraPHs oF GrotocicaL Supsecrs, prepared by 
the Geological Survey and Museum. 8vo; pp. 35. London, 1910. 
Price ,6d.—During the past six years the Geological Survey has 
taken photographs of objects of geological interest in the areas of 
England and Wales that were being re-surveyed on the 6 inch maps. 
In Scotland photographic work was commenced by the Geological 
Survey in 1890, and a catalogue of the photographs preserved in the 
Edinburgh Office is promised. In the present pamphlet 800 subjects 
are recorded, and they relate mostly to Cornwall, Devon, Pembroke, 
and Carmarthen. They include quarry sections, tors, raised beaches, 
stream-tin works, dykes, pillow- lavas, sand -dunes, crush - breccia, 
china-clay works, cleavage, contorted strata, etc. It is noted by the 
Director, Dr. Teall, that negatives, prints, lantern slides, or bromide 
