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has not formulated a classification of his own ; indeed, as he hi 
has told us, to do so would be the assumption of knowledge in t 
possession of no living man. But he has shown us where the ea 
system-makers failed, and how some later workers have copied 
failures, or magnified them, so that some of the later systems 
GO: £ 
jntt@dacsion (it occupies 120 pages of close—too close—prin 
contains references to over 500 authors) is invaluable, and for 
manner of treatment we have no expressions save those of ad 
tion. In the vast literature of ornithology these pages must alway 
hold a high place, and those who may read them will always 
grateful for the pleasure, no less than the profit, afforded there 
In concluding this notice we should like to take the opportunity 
afforded us of directing attention to those names of birds 
sage in an unfamiliar form. Albatros (we note with pleasure that 
. Salvin has adopted this spelling in the 25th volume of 
British Museum ‘Catalogue of Birds’), Avoset, Cuckow, Daw, 
will be sufficiently illustrative. It is not always pleasant to % 
what is familiar by what is strange, but it should never be repugh® 
to rectify error, and we feel sure that sooner or later the propriety ¢ 
the changes here made will be recognised. ‘The author is well a 
to have paid considerable attention to nomenclature, and 
ornithologist knows that his judgment in matters connected hee 
with is neither bey nor capricious. W. C.J BeBe 
St. Leonard’ s-on-Sea 
" NOTES AND NEWS. 
Before us lies a reprint from ‘The Glaciali 
ists’ Magazine’ for 
of a paper by Herbert Muff and Thomas Shecaerd —entitled 
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paper gives a full account of observatio ns mad 
last year, with discussion of their bearings on the subject of f glaciation in 
gato. om old friend Mr. Robert Standen, assistant keeper at the Mau 
ra ‘te of his paper on ‘ The Lan 
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