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tions, the Darwin of the vanished faunas, and bis name should 

 shine side by side with the names of these illustrious scholars." 

 Another memoir translated from the same source is " The 

 Instinct of Self-concealment and the Choice of Colours in the 

 Crustacea," by Komuald Minkiewicz. The author rejects the 

 proposed phraseology of "active variable mimicry" as being to 

 his mind too anthropomorphic, and prefers the " new expression, 

 instinctive synchromatism." This publication is suggestive to 

 the last degree. Two papers of interest to speculative ornitho- 

 logists are " The Origin and Development of Parasitical Habits 

 in the Cuculidse," by C. L. Barrett, reprinted from the ' Emu' ; 

 and " Some Remarks on the Protective Resemblance of South 

 African Birds," by A. Haagner, reprinted from the ' Journal of 

 the South African Ornithologists' Union.' " Recent Discoveries 

 bearing on the Antiquity of Man in Europe," by George Grant 

 MacCurdy, of Yale University, appears to be an original con- 

 tribution — at least, no reference is made to an earlier or other 

 publication — and is an excellent and well-illustrated resume of 

 the latest discoveries and conclusions on this vital subject. 

 We have only mentioned these papers, but there are more 

 appertaining to our science, and we may well welcome and 

 value annual volumes that always draw our attention to im- 

 portant memoirs which might perhaps be sometimes over- 

 looked, and, what is much more, are reprinted, and translated 

 when necessary, in their pages. 



Zoologisches Adresshuch. R. Friedlander & Sohn, Berlin. 



This excellent world-wide directory to all recognized zoologists 

 is a great boon, and a new edition has just been published. So 

 far as we have seen it has been compiled with much care and 

 accuracy, while the special study of each zoologist is given. 



