Gadow in this country, and Fiirbringer on the continent, we 

 have no convenient systematic treatise on this important 

 subject in a handy form. There is an enormous quantity of 

 knowledge available, but it requires to be concentrated into 

 a tangible shape. I may say, however, that I have some 

 hopes that ^^^Ir. Beddard and Mr. ("halmers ^Mitchell, who is 

 working with Mr. Beddard in the Zoological Society^s 

 Prosectorium^ will undertake this formidable task, and that 

 before long we may be gratified by having ready for use a 

 Handbook on the Anatomy of Birds, properly illustrated 

 and written in the tongue most familiar to us. 



