04 Reviews—C. D. Sherborne’s Bibliography of the Foraminifera. - 
II.—A BrerioGRAPHY OF THE FORAMINIFERA, RECENT AND FossiL, 
From 1565 to 1888. By C. D. Suerporny, F.G.8. 8vo. pp. vi. 
and 152. (London, Dulau & Co., 1888.) 
N the July Number, 1887, of the Grou. Mae. at p. 324, we 
briefly criticized a “Bibliography of the Foraminifera,” by 
Prof. Anthony Woodward; and we regretted to point out some of 
its errors and shortcomings. We can now congratulate Rhizopodists 
on the publication of a good catalogue of all the books and memoirs 
treating of Foraminifera that have appeared during more than the 
last three centuries. The little shelled Protozoans under notice, 
always either quaint or elegant in form, and offering an interminable 
series of varied shapes to the microscopist, and highly interesting 
subjects of research to the biologist, have been treated of in hundreds 
of works with more or less exactness, and illustrated by thousands 
of plates of very different values. The bibliographies hitherto given 
to the public, within the last forty years, have been more or less 
useful as clues in the finding of some desiderata; but have often 
disappointed the student, or left him vaguely conscious that more or 
better work had been done in his line of research. If really desirous 
of learning what others have worked out, and of comparing the 
results of those who have preceded him, he now has good aid in his 
search, and has no excuse should he ignore earlier workers. 
Having entered on the study of Foraminifera, and finding it 
necessary to master their bibliographic history, in making tables 
and catalogues of the multitudinous genera and species already re- 
corded, Mr. C. D. Sherborn evidently found existing bibliographies 
too imperfect for the purpose, and therefore consolidated and aug- 
mented the several lists, which books and friends supplied, as fully 
explained in his Preface. The result is this excellent Bibliography 
before us, which has been earnestly and conscientiously carried out, 
with scrupulous exactness as to dates and titles of books and 
memoirs, the places of publication, the life-dates of the authors 
(when obtainable), and a definite uniformity in quoting periodicals 
and transactions, which especially is as valuable as it is rare. The 
frequent notes relative to some rare and other publications are 
of great value: and the enumeration of, or remarks on, the illustra- 
tions seem to intimate that the author of this “ Bibliography ” could 
supply an index of genera and species, very many of which are 
notoriously synonymous, having been determined and published 
without due regard to previous publications. 
Mr. Sherborn has adopted the plan of enumerating the authors 
(about 700) in alphabetical order, and the works of each in order of 
date (about 2000), with cross-references. Of the books and papers 
thus mentioned only about 20 are noted as not having been seen, with 
such care and exactness has the work been carried out. There is 
a very short list of errata in the book, and scarcely any others can 
be found even after a considerable use of this valuable Bibliography. 
Strata of various ages have yielded so many Foraminifera that the 
geological formations are frequently mentioned in connection with 
them in the titles and pages of the books and memoirs here enumerated ; 
