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only able to complete the first part, relating to the Invertebrate 

 fossil fauna, and see it through the press. On account of the 

 increased amount of subject-matter this new edition is to be brought 

 out in two volumes, the first of which is now before us; it is 

 furnished with an index so as to be complete in itself. 



It is well known that about four years ago an English translation 

 ■of the " Grundziige " appeared under the title of " Textbook of 

 Palasontology." It was edited by Dr. C. R. Eastman, of Harvard 

 University, a former student of von Zittel, assisted by several 

 collaborators, who were, with two exceptions, American authorities 

 of special eminence in their respective subjects. By these authors 

 most of the fossil groups in the •' Grundziige" were revised to such 

 an extent that the system of classification in the new Textbook could 

 'not rightly be claimed as the same as that in the " Grundziige." 

 And that it- was so regarded by American palaeontologists is shown 

 in a published review of it, by one of their number, from which the 

 following is an extract : — 



" Pal^ontological science is certainly beholden to Wachsmuth, 

 "Sladen, Ulrich, Schuchert, Dall, and others for their labours of love 

 in trying to make this an authoritative and trustworthy textbook. 

 How well they have succeeded remains to be determined after the 

 book has been used in the laboratory. The improvement is so 

 •marked over the German edition, the ' translation ' contains so little 

 from the original, and the ' revision ' is so complete, that the question 

 naturally arises whether Dr. Eastman could not just as well have 

 gone a little further in his work and made it a textbook by 

 American authors, which would have held the same place among 

 English-speaking people as the original Handbuch does among 

 Eui'opeans." ^ 



That Professor von Zittel did not agree with the extensive and 

 important alterations introduced in the translation (so-called) of his 

 " Grundziige" is shown in his preface (in German.) to tlie Textbook, 

 in which he points out some of the difficulties and discrepancies 

 resulting from the collaboration of a number of specialists whose 

 views on systematic classification agreed neither with his own nor 

 with each other. As a specially unfortunate instance he quotes the 

 fact that in the Textbook the Chsetetidse and Fistuliporidse are in one 

 part treated as belonging to Corals and in another referred to the 

 Bryozoa ! In this new edition, moreover, von Zittel rejects most of 

 the alterations made in the Textbook, and holds fast to the classi- 

 fication of the first edition of the " Grundziige," which is more in 

 accord with the views of German palaeontologists than with those 

 of America. 



Without pretending to any detailed criticism, a few remarks may 

 be made on the contents of this volume. And, first, it is noticeable 

 that no addition or alteration appears to have been made in the 

 description and distribution of Foraminifera, Kadiolaria, and Porifera, 

 which remain the same as in 1895, though we should have looked 

 for some reference to the fresh discoveries of Eadiolaria in the 

 1 Joiu-ual of Geology, Chicago, vol. iv, 1896, p. 738. 



