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Balearic Isles. This antelope is especially remarkable for possessing 

 a pair of permanently growing rodent-like lower incisors and very 

 broad stout metapodial bones ; a detailed account of its osteology 

 was given by the present writer in the Philosophical Transactiofis 

 (Ser. B, vol. 206, 1915, p. 281, pis. 19-22). There numerous 

 resemblances between Myotragus, Nemorhaedus, and Budorcas 

 were pointed out, the likeness of the feet in Mijotragus and Budorcas 

 being especially striking. Myotragas, in fact, as suggested in the 

 above-mentioned paper, seems to be a peculiarly modified insular 

 form of the Nemorhaediue antelopes, formerly much more widely 

 distributed than at present. 



C. W. A. 



James Hall of Albany, Geologist and Pal.^ontologist, 1811- 

 1898. By John M. Clarke. 8vo, 865 pages, and many 

 illustrations. Albany, 1921. Price $3.50. 



pROFESSOR CLARKE, Director of the New York State Museum, 

 -*- was obviously the person fitted to write the life of his predecessor 

 and former chief. 



The author is not blind to his subject's faults, and the reader is 

 left with a feeling of sadness that a life which might have been 

 tranquil was made turbulent owing to Hall's temperament. 



His geological work is admirably treated, as one would expect 

 from one whose labours have been largely along the same lines as 

 those followed by Hall himself. His great achievements — the 

 establishment of the Palaeozoic succession in New York State, the 

 magnificent palaeontological researches chiefly embodied in the 

 thirteen volumes on the Palaeontology of New York, and his acute 

 discernment of the relationship between geosynclines and mountain- 

 building — are adequately treated, and give an excellent idea of- 

 Hall's indomitable energy, his industry, and his genius. 



We learn much also of his contemporaries, and as his scientific 

 career extended over a period of nearly sixty-three years, the book 

 practically contains a history of the progress of the study of the 

 Palaeozoic rocks of the States during the nineteenth century. 



The author of the " life " is evidently concerned about questions 

 of nomenclature. The acquisitive Briton has, it seems, established 

 and named so many stratigraphical systems (as he has occupied so 

 many colonies) that little was left for others. This will, no doubt, 

 be set right when a more satisfactory classification is ultimately 

 adopted, based upon fossil-sequence. In the meantime, apart from 

 priority in naming, the work of Hall 7Tiust be generally recognized as 

 contributing in a high degree to the definite establishment of the 

 Devonian system. 



British geologists will be interested in much new matter concerning 

 Lyell's visits to the States. We recommend the book to our readers : 

 it is a worthy record of a great man. 



J. E. M. 



