566 Reviews—Attwood’s Blowpipe Assaying. 
“What is a Brachiopod?” published in the Annals of the same 
Society for 1875. The list includes the titles, locations, and date of 
issue of papers relating in any way to the anatomy, classification, 
embryological and palontological history, geographical and geo- 
logical distribution of the Brachiopoda, and therefore cannot fail to 
be of great use to future students of this extensive group of organ- 
isms. It will, we understand, be eventually reproduced in the volume 
of the Paleontographical Society for 1882, on the conclusion of Mr. 
Davidson’s series of valuable supplementary memoirs on the British 
Fossil Brachiopoda. Any corrections of the present issue, or sug- 
gested additions thereto, will be welcomed by the author, for the 
purpose of rendering the bibliographical history of the group fully 
accurate and complete. I Ci 
Il.—Gerotocican Survey or VictroriaA. PRopRoMUS OF ‘THE 
PaL#onToLocy oF Victor1a. Dscape VI. By Frep. McCoy, 
(Melbourne, 1879; London, Triibner & Co.) 
HIS Decade, like the previous ones, contains figures and descrip- 
tions of some of the more important Victorian Organic Remains. 
The illustrations are equally divided between vertebrate and inver- 
tebrate fossils. The description of the extinct gigantic Kangaroo, 
Macropus Titan, Owen, so common in the Pliocene deposits, is fol- 
lowed by that of the curious extinct Marsupial genus, Procoptodon, 
which differs from the true Kangaroos in the character of its teeth, 
and shows a relation to the extinct Diprotodon of the same Pliocene 
deposits. Three species of Cetotolites are noticed from the Miocene 
near Geelong, showing the extraordinary repetition in Australia of 
the curious occurrence in the Crag of Suffolk of similar ear-bones of 
whales. The teeth of a gigantic fossil species of Spermaceti Whale, 
Physetodon Baileyi, McCoy, from the older Pliocene, and a tooth of 
Squalodon, are figured on the fifth plate. Descriptions and figures 
are given of some fossil mollusca (Orthoceras), characteristic of the’ 
Upper Silurian, and of a new species of Hinnites from the Miocene. 
The last two plates represent some interesting species of sea-urchins 
belonging to the genera Lovenia, Monostychia, and Clypeaster, which 
are widely distributed in the Tertiary strata (Miocene and Pliocene) 
of the Colony. J. M. 
II.—Pracrican Browpren Assayinc. By Guorcx Arrwoop, F.G.S., 
Assoc. Inst. C.H., ete. (London: Sampson Low & Co., 1880.) 
Browrrper ANAtysts. By J. Lanpaver. Authorized English Edition 
1379) Taytor and W. HE. Kay. (London: Macmillan & Co., 
yi an instrument of chemical and mineralogical research, the 
-4 Blowpipe is probably not so highly estimated as it ought to 
be in this country, not that manuals descriptive of its applications 
and methods of use are wanting. The English pyrologist is fairly 
supplied with them, either ag original treatises, or translations with 
or without modifications of the best Continental works, from the 
translation of Berzelius in 1822 to the present time. Of the recent 
contributions to Blowpipe literature, besides the smaller work of 
