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Butterflies and Moths of North 

 America. 15y Hickman Strecker. 

 8vo. pp. 283. Reading Penna. 1878. 



The author lias our best thanks for a 

 copy of this really valuable and useful 

 work, which gives evidence of great labor 

 in its preparation, and which should be 

 in the library of every Lepidopterist. 



For the the beginner it contain;; minute 

 and careful instructions for collecting, 

 breeding, and preparing for the cabinet, 

 which are well illustrated. Then follows 

 a chapter on the structure of butterflies 

 and moths, also illustrated ; the terms and 

 abbreviations used in works on Lepidop- 

 tera are then given, and this is followed 

 by an alphabetical and explanatory list of 

 localities to which the Lepidopterous fauna 

 is more or less known ; catalogue of the 

 American Macrolepidoptera north of Mex- 

 ico. This is followed by an index to 

 catalogue of Macrolepidoptera, Rhopha- 

 loceres, the work closing with 75 pages of 

 Bibliography, with list of authors and their 

 works cited, elucidating the abreviations 

 used in the catalogue, with short biograph- 

 ical or antobiographical notes. Price, two 

 dollars. 



Public Documents. — The editor begs 

 leave to acknowledge the following gov- 

 ernment publications. 



Annual Report Department of Agricul- 

 ture, for 1877. The report of Prof. Glover 

 on Hymenoptera, (plates) and article by 

 Prof. Riley on the Rocky Mountain Lo- 

 cust, (illustrated,) will be found of in- 

 terest to naturalists. From the Depart- 

 ment. 



First Annual Report of the Entomo- 

 logical Commission on the Rocky Moun- 

 tain Locust. This valuable " contribu- 

 tion " to Entomological literature con- 

 tains over 770 8vo. pages, in which is 

 given the vast amount of interesting data 

 and reliable information collected by the 

 Commission, numerous fine illustrations, 

 and a series of superb plates ; the last 

 294 pages are devoted to useful appendi- 

 ces. From the Commission. 



The American Antiquarian, De- 

 voted to American History, Ethnology, 

 and Archaealogy. E lited by Rev. 

 Stephen D. Peet. Publis] ed by Brooks 

 Schinkel & Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 

 Price, $2.00 per annum. 



We have received No. 1 and 2 of this 

 interesting quarterly, making thus far 1 16 

 pages. The table of contents of No. 2 

 is as follows: A Comparison of the Pue- 

 blo Pottery with Egyptian and Creek 

 Ceramics, by Edwin A. Barber. Tradi- 

 tions of the Deluge, among the tribes of 

 the Northwest, by Rev. M. Eells. De- 

 scriptions of an Engraved Stone, by |ohn 

 E. Sylvester, M. D. Prehistoric Rums 

 in Missouri. Gleanings, by S. S. Ilalde- 

 man. Sketch of the Klamath Language, 

 by Albert S. Gatschet. The Location of 

 the Indian Tribes of the Northwest Terri- 

 tory, by Stepen D. Peet. Remarkable 

 Relics — Leaf Shaped Implements, by 

 Prof. M. C. Reid. Perforated Tablets, by 

 R. S. Robertson. Recent Explorations 

 of Mounds. &c. 



Manual of the Vertebrates op- the 

 Northern United States. By D. 

 S. Jordan, Ph. D. M. D. Chicago, 

 Jansen M'Clerg & Co. (Large 121110. 

 407 pages.) Price $2.50. 



This 'iew edition has been enlarged by 

 the addition of nearly one hundred pages, 

 and in it the nomenclature has been 

 brought fully to date of publication ; and 

 all the lately discovered species made 

 known by our active band of ornithologists 

 are included. The fishes are entirely re- 

 written ; all the genera are fully and 

 exactly characterized, many of them for 

 the first time, and the names used are 

 those adopted by the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, the United States Fish Commission, 

 and by the Government Surveys. Natural 

 diagnoses have been in the fishes every- 

 where substituted for the artificial keys, 

 the application of which is often unsatis- 

 factory and uncertain. 



The work has the hearty approval of 

 the highest scientific authorites in the land. 



