Botany and Zoology. 315 
6. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States ; 
y D.S8. Jorpan. 12mo, 342 pp., no figures. Chicago: 1876. 
(Jansen, McClurg & Co.)—To collectors and others who chiefly de- 
sire to as i 
class naturally tend to foster the already too prevalent idea that 
d “botany” means only, or chiefly, the 
brief and technical. At most, it should be regarded only as a con- 
venient key er index to the names and classification of the species 
included in it. But on this very account, the absence of synonyms 
: , is a very serious defect, which ren- 
ders it far less useful than it otherwise might have been. .A mere 
list of the numerous important works from which the author has 
and also important omissions of species. The 608 
fe of which a species (N. palustris) was described by the writer 
om Maine and Massachusetts,* and f, Co om. New 
Mong the fishes, where there is some original matter, the 
r has, in some genera, rejected or ignored many species 
Fg a ings Boston Soc. Natural History, vol. ix, p. 164, 172, 225, 1862. See 
(Bachman, sp.) from Pennsylvania. 
