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Gunther, Wingate, Oughtred, Forster and 

 Partridge. Heilbronner (" Historia Mathe- 

 seos Universse," Leipzig, 1742) includes Win- 

 gate and Gunter, while La Lands (" As- 

 tronomie," Paris, 1792) refers to Gunter as 

 known for his scale of logarithms. These 

 from the limited works at my hand that would 

 be likely to mention these men. 



Gunter's " Description and Use of the Sec- 

 tor, Cross-staif, and other Instruments," Lon- 

 don, 1624 (p. 2), should be, according to the 

 British Museum Catalogue, " The description 

 use of the sector, crosse-staffe, and other in- 

 struments." The printed title page of a copy 

 in the British Museum is dated 1623. " Hori- 

 zantal " in the title of Forster's work (p. 11) 

 should be " Horizontall," and the title of 

 Wingate's publication (p. 9) should begin 

 with " The." I note three " A "s in the Greek 

 word in footnote on page 21. There are omis- 

 sions in the index, e. g., Mehmke and other 

 names of the preface. Perry and Segner 

 (preface, page iii) are hardly entitled to be 

 called " advanced mathematicians." The 

 given bibliography of the slide rule receives 

 undue prominence as it is by no means com- 

 plete, a fact shown by the most casual refer- 

 ence to the articles on the slide rule in the 

 " International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 

 ture, Mathematics," and to the Royal Society 

 of London's " Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 

 Subject Index, Pure Mathematics." 



Especially worthy of commendation are the 

 abundant photographic reproductions of dia- 

 grams from the originals. The most seri- 

 ous criticism to be brought against this 

 publication is that it was placed upon the 

 market with such important corrections 

 in the addenda. Doubtless it would have 

 been expensive to correct the fundamental 

 errors in the text shown by the results stated 

 in the addenda, yet the value of the work is 

 considerably lessened by this omission. The 

 publishers state in a footnote that copy of the 

 addenda was received after the text was 

 printed. It is to be hoped that some time an 

 edition may appear in which these important 

 conclusions are embodied in the text. 



L. C. Kaepinski 



Birds of South Carolina. By Arthur Treze- 

 VANT Wayne, Honorary Curator of Birds in 

 the Charleston Museum. With an intro- 

 duction by Paul M. Eea, Director. Contri- 

 butions from the Charleston Museum, I. 

 8vo, pp. xxi + 254. Charleston, S. C. 

 1910. 



The present work is based primarily on the 

 personal observations of the author continued 

 for nearly thirty years, mainly in the coast 

 region of the state, to which it was his inten- 

 tion originally to limit its scope. The intro- 

 duction by Professor Rea, based largely on 

 manuscripts furnished by the author, whose 

 prolonged illness rendered this assistance 

 necessary, treats of the physical divisions of 

 South Carolina, and the history of South Car- 

 olina ornithology, which begins with Cates- 

 by's " The Natural History of Carolina, Flor- 

 ida, and the Bahama Islands," published in 

 two folio volumes in 1731-48. The later con- 

 tributions, by various authors, are duly noted. 

 The main body of the work consists of a sys- 

 tematic list of the " Birds of the Coast Re- 

 gion" (pp. 1-204; 309 species), followed by 

 an annotated list of additional species from 

 the interior of the state (pp. 205-213; 

 28 species), and a "Hypothetical List" (pp. 

 215-222; 22 species). A bibliography of about 

 200 titles and a good index complete the vol- 

 ume. 



As a faunistic contribution, it is a work of 

 high value, the species of the coast region 

 being not only very fully annotated, but the 

 annotations present a summary of the long 

 field experience of a conscientious and ex- 

 ceptionally careful and competent observer, 

 enthusiastically interested in his work. The 

 records made by other authors are not neg- 

 lected and loose or erroneous statements re- 

 ceive critical attention. Mr. Wayne has 

 largely, for many years at least, had this 

 especially interesting field almost to himself, 

 and since about 1886 has added over thirty 

 species to the knovra. fauna of the region and 

 contributed a long list of minor papers on its 

 birds. In bringing together in a handy vol- 

 ume the results of his ornithological observa- 

 tions, he has rendered a grateful service to his 



