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close to the surface, and not motionless, but patrolling the 

 surface of the stretch they frequent. 



The illustrations are excellent, and drawn by Mr. Began 

 himself, with the result that the real specific differences and 

 general facies receive a prominence not always found when the 

 eye of the artist and not that of the ichthyologist is a more 

 dominant agent. 



Guide to the Exhibition of Animals, Plants, and Minerals 

 mentioned in the Bible. Printed by Order of the Trustees 

 of the British Museum. 



" It was thought by the Trustees of the British Museum 

 that an Exhibition of Animals, Plants, and Minerals mentioned 

 in the Bible would form an interesting supplement to the literary 

 and historical Biblical Exhibition which has been arranged at 

 Bloomsbury for the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version, 

 and instructions were given for its preparation." The result is 

 the Collection now placed in one of the bays of the Central 

 Hall of the Natural History Museum, and also the publication 

 of this Guide-book, which is, however, by its value in literary 

 research, considerably more than its title implies. The Animals 

 and Minerals respectively have been selected, arranged, and 

 labelled by Mr. E. Lydekker and Dr. G. F. Herbert Smith, and 

 the Plants by Dr. A. B. Eeudle. 



The principal English works on the subject hitherto have 

 been Dr. Tristram's ' Natural History of the Bible,' and a more 

 popular publication by the late J. G. Wood, entitled ' Bible 

 Animals,' but there was every room and demand for the concise 

 statements to be found in this small but excellent ' Guide.' Of 

 course, as regards the animals, the non-mythical are alone 

 referred to, the mythical being entirely in the domain and know- 

 ledge of the students of comparative theologies. 



But the strength of this publication will be found in Dr. 

 Fletcher's essay, " showing how modern interpretations of the 

 ancient names of Biblical minerals have been deduced." This, 

 though somewhat out of the purview of * The Zoologist,' will 

 not only interest naturalists, but make this 'Guide' indis- 

 pensable to Biblical students, and provide one of those out-of- 



