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details, now laid before the systematist, he 

 should not longer delay his acceptance of the 

 reform. Wm. H. Dall. 



Hunting in Many Lands — The Book of the Boone 

 and Crocket Club. Edited by Theodore 

 Roosevelt and Geoege Bird Geinnell. 

 New York, Forest and Stream Publishing 

 Co. 1895. 8°, pp. 447, illustrated. 

 The Boone and Crocket Club is an organiza- 

 tion whose principal objects are: the preserva- 

 tion of the large game of America, the promo- 

 tion of exploration in little known lands, the 

 record of observations on the natural history of 

 our wild animals, and the promotion of manly 

 sport with the rifle. It is interested also in 

 forest preservation. Membership is limited to 

 one hundred, and no one is eligible who has 

 not killed ' in fair chase ' at least one kind of 

 American big game. 



The Club has done much good in diiRising a 

 healthy sentiment against illegitimate hunting 

 and unnecessary destruction of game, and in 

 aiding the enforcement of game laws in the 

 various states. It has been largely instrumental 

 also in accomplishing the passage by Congress 

 of an act for the protection of the Yellowstone 

 National Park ; and still more recently has se- 

 cured the passage by the State Legislature of 

 an act incorporating the New York Zoological 

 Society, which Society will soon establish, in 

 the neighborhood of New York, a great Zoologi- 

 cal park. 



Several years ago the Boone and Crockett 

 Club published a volume entitled ' American 

 Big Game Hunting,' which was made up of 

 articles by well known writers on the game of 

 our own country. This, and Mr. Roosevelt's 

 personal writings, particularly his ' Wilderness 

 Hunter,' which is incomparably the best book 

 ever written on the large mammals of America, 

 made it desirable to select a wider field. The 

 present volume, ' Hunting in Many Lands,' 

 contains chapters on Hunting in East Africa, 

 by W. A. Chanler ; To the Gulf of Cortez, by 

 George H. Gould ; A Canadian Moose Hunt, 

 by Madison Grant; A Hunting Trip in India, 

 by the late Elliott Roosevelt; Dog Sledging in 

 the North, by D. M. Barringer; Wolf-Hunting 

 in Russia, by Henry T. Allen; A Bear Hunt in 



the Sierras, by Alden Sampson; The Ascent of 

 Chief Mountain, by Henry L. Stimson; The 

 Cougar, by Casper W. Whitney; Big Game of 

 Mongolia and Tibet, by W. W. Rockhill; Hunt- 

 ing in the Cattle Country, by Theodore Roose- 

 velt; Wolf Coursing, by Roger D. Williams; 

 Game Laws, by Charles E. Whitehead; Protec- 

 tion of the Yellowstone Park, by George S. 

 Anderson. It contains also an interesting ac- 

 count of the Yellowstone National Park Protec- 

 tion Act, some Head Measurements of Trophies, 

 and the By-Laws and List of Members of the 

 Club. 



The book is well gotten up, entertainingly 

 written, and abounds in facts of interest to the 

 naturalist. The editors are to be congratulated 

 in securing such a choice selection of articles, 

 and on bringing out the book in such attractive 

 form. C. H. M. 



Guide d'oceanographie pratique. J. Thoulet. 



Paris, G. Masson & Gauthier-Villars et flls. 



1895. Pp. 224. 



This is a simple, brief, and satisfactory ac- 

 count of the kinds of observations that are re- 

 quired in oceanographio investigations of the 

 lesser depths, of the methods of making the 

 observations, and of the instruments and imple- 

 ments used. There are kept constantly in view, 

 especially with reference to the subject of mari- 

 time fisheries, the practical results that flow 

 from the development and study of the topo- 

 graphic forms of the bottom of the ocean, and 

 of the various deposits of soil that are found 

 there ; of the study of currents and winds, of 

 transparency and coloration, of the tempera- 

 ture, salinity, and chemical composition of the 

 waters of the ocean ; and of the relation be- 

 tween meteorology and oceanography. 



The book is provided with reliable and use- 

 ful tables for the conversion of fathoms into 

 metres, for the comparison of the Fahrenheit, 

 Reaumur and centigrade thermometric scales, 

 for the determination of the humidity of the 

 air and the tension of vapor of water, and for 

 finding the density and salinity of sea water. 



The scope of the work, which relates prin- 

 cipally to the continental plateau or region 

 which lies along the borders of the oceans be- 

 tween the coasts and the line marking the 



