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by the great increase in current library work common to all libraries. 
We are, however, thankful to receive Volume III, for now we are 
well past the middle of the work, and the whole cannot be much 
longer delayed. ‘The present volume is even better than its pre- 
decessors, and in many points is better than anything of the kind that 
has been done before. The same wealth of bibliographic detail is 
observed whenever necessary, as may be seen under C. F. P. Martius, 
Francois Levaillant, and Martin Lister for example; the same 
intelugent and uniform rendering of Russian names is employed ; 
and careful attention is called to many bibliographic subtilties, 
so puzzling to the lay mind. Full details of books of travel 
are given, as for instance under Middendorff, where the separate 
papers are properly listed out and the dates given, and exact dates 
are furnished (we believe for the first time) of such troublesome 
books as the Naturalist’s Library, which was reprinted again and 
again as the supply ran short. That part of the Catalogue dealing 
with Linneus is one of which any librarian might be proud. It is 
a tour de force, and was, we believe, issued specially as a separate for 
the celebration in honour of the great naturalist in Stockholm three 
ears ago. 
‘ A brief Preface by Mr. Fletcher reminds us that Mr. Woodward 
has continued to profit by the assistance of his colleagues on the staff, 
his valued attendant Mr. Hadrill, his clerical assistant Mrs. Wilson, 
and other friends, but the inception and carrying through of this 
invaluable book is due to himself, and those who use it and recognize 
its utility can hardly find words to properly express their thanks to 
him. What the value of a Catalogue like this must be to those 
smaller libraries who can never hope to amass such a collection or to 
get access to such reference books whereby such a collection can be 
properly catalogued we do not know; all we hope is that the Trustees 
of the British Museum haying issued such a book, librarians will avail 
themselves of the privilege and secure it. 
I].—Tue Harraqevake or 1872 In tHE Owens Vatiry, CALIFORNIA. 
By Professor W. H. Hosss. Beitrage zur Geophysik, vol. x, 
pp- 852-85, 1910. 
f{\HE Owens Valley earthquake of March 26, 1872, is one of the 
greatest and most interesting of Californian earthquakes, and, in 
writing its history, Professor Hobbs has supplied a long-felt want, 
and suppled it well. ‘The principal sources of his information are 
Whitney’s almost inaccessible report published in 1872, from which 
he makes several interesting extracts, and the valuable maps and 
photographs of the fault-scarps obtained by Mr. Willard D. Johnson 
during his survey of the district in 1907. Though the natural 
tendency of fault-scarps formed during earthquakes is to lose their 
sharpness and eventually to become effaced, many of them are still 
recognizable. Those along which movements took place in 1872 run 
along the west side of the Owens Valley at the foot of the Alabama 
Hills for a total distance of about forty miles. For considerable 
distances, generally one or two miles, the individual scarps maintain 
