84 Reviews — Dr. Eastmans Textbook of Palceontology. 



There are a few unimportant errors which we have noticed. Thus, 

 on p. 36 " Pleistocene of Uxbridge " is a slip for " Holocene of 

 Uxbridge", and on pp. 43 and 78 Cappagh is in Waterford, not- 

 Limerick. The credit for the first discovery of F. stipinutn is 

 here given to Dr. A. C. Johansen in 1901, but it was recorded from 

 Scotland in 1880 by Sandberger. 



This volume begins a new era in the publications of the B;:itish 

 Museum, since it deals with specimens preserved in the Geological 

 and Zoological Departments, and the old artificial barrier of " fossil 

 and recent" has disappeared, we hope, for ever. 



III. — Text-Book of Paleontology. Edited by Chaeles R. Eastman, 

 Ph.D. Adapted from the German of Karl A. von Zittel. 

 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Yol. I. Svo ; pp. xii, 840, 

 with about 1,600 illustrations. London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 

 1913. Price 25s. net. 



NEARLY fourteen years have gone by since the appearance of the 

 first English edition of von Zittel's Textbook, and in the notice 

 of it in the Geological Magazine for 1900 (p. 232) attention was drawn 

 to the fact that Dr. Eastman, the translator and editor, had enlisted the 

 assistance of a number of specialists in the principal groups of fossil 

 Invertebrata to act as collaborators with him in bringing out the 

 work. This plan proved so successful that it has again been adopted 

 by the editor in tbe preparation of this new edition, and at the 

 beginning of the volume he has given a list of seventeen coadjutors 

 and of the particular group or groups of fossils which they have 

 respectively treated. By their efforts the editor states that many 

 parts of the work have been entirely rewritten, others have been 

 amended, re-arranged, and enlarged, and the classification in various 

 places has been considerably altered. 



It would exceed our limits to comment on these emendations, but 

 we may just note the rectification of a very conspicuous error in the 

 first edition — that of placing some species of the genus MonticuUpora 

 with the Tabulate Corals and others with the Bryozoa. The true 

 relationship of the supposed corals is to the Bryozoa, and in the 

 present edition they are rightly placed in this class with their allies. 



The principal new fossil forms of Invertebrata discovered since 

 1900 are included in the present volume, and many of them figured. 

 In this connexion may be mentioned the strange new forms of 

 Medusae, Chaetopods, Holothurians, etc., discovered by Dr. C. D. 

 Walcott in the Middle Cambrian rocks of British Columbia. 



Another special feature of the work is the bibliography of the 

 respective groups, which is brought down to recent dates ; it also 

 includes references to the more important literature of the recent 

 as well as the fossil forms. 



No other Avork in the English language furnishes us with so 

 complete a description of fossil Invertebrata as the present textbook, 

 and it can be heartily recommended to all interested in the study of 

 palaeontology. 



