380 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
a well-arranged view of the transformations which the system in 
scientific accuracy, but on g the longseries of citations, andafter 
haying convinced ourselves of their completeness and trustworthiness, 
we canno t help ex ressin ng. our astonishment at the extraordinary assi- 
as : 
) ent in the search after extremely dispersed notices ; every 
systematit ire _ advantage hereby results to him and to science 
eneral, The work being written in Latin is aieieiiitn to the 
Tne men of all Sas ons. A. W. Ercuer. 
Helogceonacie Abhandlungen, von Dr. W. O. Fock. (A reprint from 
the Transactions of the Natural History Society of Bremen.) 
This is a pamphlet with which all Bramble students should make 
acquaintance. It does not deal at all with the complicated European 
forms, but gives a general review and classification of the extra 
F So ten species, classified under their five geographical coher mg 
9) 1a, 
since the monograph in coterie a for several of the areas gives 
full synoptical tables of sion’ In America he admits upwards of 
sixty species (a dozen described as i) ; for Australia, including 
Polynesia and New Zealand nine ; for Africa, including the Mascarene: 
and Atlantic islands fourteen ; for Russia fifteen. For Tropical Asia 
and Europe he does oo attempt to give numbers, but for the former 
describes eight new species. Altogether there is a large amount 0 
Deginbilnsinifruiation packed lightly in this unpretending pd ag 
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