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ancestors. It is difficult, he says, to account for this diversity in 

 the sentiments of the people, unless we consider it due to their 

 racial mental qualities. 



The Oration is illustrated with an excellent chart of skulls 

 belonging to the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, and existing races 

 of men. 



IV. — Geological Literature added to the Geological 

 Society's Library during the Year ended December 31, 1900. 

 (London, Geological Society, price 2s.) — This, the seventh annual 

 record of publications received by the Society, contains 12 pages of 

 titles of serials and academies, of which parts have been added to 

 the library during the past year ; 109 pages of titles of papers 

 published in those parts and other separate publications received ; 

 and 80 pages of treble-entry, double-column index, analytic of the 

 titles recorded. The work, which is compiled by the librarian, 

 Mr. Eupert Jones, and edited by the Secretary, Mr. Belinfante, 

 deserves to be more widely known than to the Fellows themselves, 

 especially as it is published at so cheap a rate. It provides the best 

 general annual list of geological literature, the index being of 

 especial value, and might be made a really first-class record, if the 

 Society would spend a little more money upon it and include all 

 publications of a geological nature whether received by the Society 

 or not. This system of recording — an alphabetical list, properly 

 indexed — is far and away the most convenient form, and its handy 

 size can be favourably contrasted with those clumsy quartos which 

 are the bugbear of the ordinary man's library. 



V. — Bulimin^ and Cassidulin^. — No more useful work is done 

 than that of monographing particular groups. Carlo Fornasini, 

 most active of the students of the Foraminifera, has just published 

 a paper on the Italian forms of these genera (Boll. Soc. Geol. 

 Ital., xx), which he divides into 75 species. He has also published 

 a paper on the Adriatic forms of the genus Bulimina (Mem. Ac. Sci. 

 1st. Bologna, ix). Taking the two papers together they form 

 a valuable contribution to the subject, one of the most interesting 

 points being the publication of some of d'Orbigny's original drawings 

 of the species founded by him in 1826, and which have since re- 

 mained difficult of absolute identification. Fornasini has put a note 

 in the Eiv. Ital. Paleont., vii, on the dates of 0. G. Costa's works on 

 the Foraminifera, dates unknown to Sherborn when he published 

 his Bibliography in 1888. 



VI. — Other Foraminiferal Publications to which the attention 

 of the student may be profitably directed are : Brown's list and digest 

 of the papers published during 1899 (Zool. Record) ; Chapman's 

 Foraminifera from the Lagoon at Funafuti (J. Linn. Soc. Zool., 

 xxviii), which gives us for the first time a correct account of the 

 distribution of these organisms across a lagoon, from side to side of 

 the reef ; Adalbert Liebus' Foraminiferenfauna des Bryozoenhori- 

 zontes von Priabona (N. Jahrb., i, 1901) ; and Silvestri's Nodosarine 

 del Neogene Italiano (Atti Ac. Pout. N. Lincei, liv). 



