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SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



THE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY. 



TT has seldom been our pleasure to notice so 

 important a series of scientific books as that 

 announced by the publishers of " The Cambridge 

 Natural History," the first volume issued being 

 now before us. This series will be from several 

 points of view unique. It is to extend to ten 

 volumes, each to contain about 500 large octavo 

 pages, with maps and copious illustrations as 

 required by the various subjects. These volumes 

 are to be edited and, for the most part, written by 

 Cambridge men. Commencing with the lower 

 forms of life, they will treat the various groups of 

 living animals of the world in sequence, and also 

 their fossil a.llies, in the simplest possible manner, 

 though the plan is fully scientific in its conception. 

 Thus, these books will be well within the range of 

 any educated person, even of those who do not 

 possess special scientific training, or familiarity 

 with terms employed by modern writers of treatises 

 or monographs on the subjects dealt with in " The 

 Cambridge Na- 

 tural History." 



The following 

 will probably be 

 the titles of these 

 ten volumes, ajid 

 the writers to 

 whom they are to 

 be assigned. It 

 will be observed 

 that there may be 

 more than one 

 writer in a sin- 

 gle volume, as 

 the distinctive 

 sections of the 

 specialists, with 



Sight in Molluscs. 

 A, himncea peregva Mull — ee, eyes, tt, tentacles. B, Helix nemoralis, Mull 

 ee, eyes, tt, tentacles ; p.o, pulmonary orifice. — From Cooke's 



subject will be entrusted to 

 the object of getting the most 

 trustworthy information. The whole series are 

 under the guidance and editorial management of 

 Mr. S. F. Harmer, M.A., Fellow of King's College, 

 Cambridge, Superintendent of the University 

 Museum of Zoology, and Mr. A. E. Shipley, M.A., 

 Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, University 

 Lecturer on the Morphology of Invertebrates. 



Vol. I. will contain " Protozoa," by M. M. 

 Hartog, M.A., Trinity Coll. (Prof, of Nat. Hist., 

 Queen's Coll., Cork) ; " Sponges," by W. J. Sollas, 

 Sc.D., F.R.S., St. John's Coll. (Prof, of Geology, 

 Trinity Coll., Dublin) ; " Jelly-fish, Sea-Anemones, 

 etc.," by S. J. Hickson, M.A., Downing Coll. (Beyer 

 Prof, of Zoology, Owens Coll., Manchester) ; and 

 "Starfish, Sea-Urchins, etc.," by E. W. MacBride, 

 M.A., St. John's Coll. 



Vol. II.—" Flat Worms, etc.," byF. W. Gamble, 

 M.Sc. (Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer in 



Zoology, Owens Coll., Manchester) ; " Nemer- 

 tines," by Miss L. Sheldon, Newnham Coll. ; 

 "Threadworms, etc." by A. E. Shipley, M.A., 

 Christ's Coll. ; " Rotifers, etc.," by M. M. Hartog, 

 M.A. ; " Polychaet Worms," by W. B. Benham, 

 D.Sc, Hon. M.A. Oxon. (Aldrichian Demonstrator 

 of Comparative Anatomy, University of Oxford) ; 

 " Earthworms and Leeches," by F. E. Beddard, 

 M.A.,F.R.S. (Prosector to the Zoological Society) ; 

 "Gephyrea," by A. E. Shipley, M.A. ; and 

 " Polyzoa," by S. F. Harmer, M.A., King's Coll. 



Vol. III.—" Molluscs," by A. H. Cooke, M.A., 

 King's Coll. ; " Recent Brachiopods," by A. E. 

 Shipley, M.A. ; " Fossil Brachiopods," by F. R. C. 

 Reed, M.A., Trinity Coll. 



Vol. IV.— " Spiders, Mites, etc.," by C. War- 

 burton, M.A., Christ's Coll. (Zoologist to the Royal 

 Agricultural Soc.) ; "Scorpions, Trilobites, etc.," 

 by M. Laurie, B.A., King's Coll. (Prof. Zoology, 

 St. Mungo's Coll, Glasgow); " Pycnogonids, etc.," 



by D'Arcy W. 

 Thompson, M.A., 

 Trinity Coll. 

 (Prof. Zoology, 

 University Coll., 

 Dundee) ; " Crus- 

 tacea," by W. F. 

 R. Weldon, M.A., 

 F.R.S., St. John's 

 Coll. (Jodrell 

 Prof. Zoology, 

 University Coll., 

 London). 



Vol. V— "Pe- 

 ripatus," by A. 

 Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S., Trinity Coll.; "Centi- 

 pedes, etc.," by F. G. Sinclair, M.A., Trinity Coll. ; 

 " Insects," by D. Sharp, M.A., F.R.S. 



Vol. VI.—" Insects," by D. Sharp, M.A., 

 F.R.S. 



Vol. VII. — " Balanoglossus, etc.," by S. F. 

 Harmer, M.A., King's Coll.; "Ascidians and 

 Amphioxus," by W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.R.S. 

 (Prof. Nat. Hist, in University Coll., Liverpool) ; 

 "Fishes," by T. W. Bridge, M.A., Trinity Coll. 

 (Prof. Zoology, Mason Coll., Birmingham). 



Vol. VIII. — "Amphibia and Reptiles," by H. 

 Gadow, M.A., F.R.S., King's Coll. 



Vol. IX.—" Birds," by A. H. Evans, M.A., Clare 

 Coll. 

 Vol. X.—" Mammals," by F. E. Beddard, F.R.S. 

 We trust that this adventure of the publishers of 

 " The Cambridge Natural History" — Messrs. Mac- 

 millan & Co., of London and New York — will 

 receive the support it deserves. Some months ago 



1 Molluscs 



