142 Scientific Intelligence. 
wey ares and the student has but to turn over from plate te 
o gain an insight into the whole range of animal organisms, In ~ 
fehaee the work gives the results of the most recent cei Its — 
system of ee ge however, has not met with favor among zoologists. — 
13. General Report upon the Zoology of the several Pacific Railroad — 
Routes. Part I. Misensix By Speycer F. Barrp. 1 Si 4to. Wash- 
States, are neither few nor unimportant. “The piers of ser: to. 
the Red River of Louisiana, the Great Salt Lake of Utah, and the Zuni 
and Colorado Rivers, all contain materials worthy of much attention, and 
especially calculated to throw light upon the theory of the distribution 
of animal life in the No: merican continent. And in the orts of 
the recent U. 8. Agehstiicnicsd Survey in the southern hemisphere, and of 
a Perry’s Japan expedition, we have evidence that the Ameri — 
can government is sufficiently ‘catholic’ in its promotion of scientific in- 
vestigation not to refuse assistance in extending our knowledge o 
. zoology of other parts of the world besides those immediately subject to 
its sway. 
Ths sevénth volume of the ‘Reports of Explorations and Surveys 
to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a Railroad 
the Secretary of War in 1853-56,’ the title of the first part of which is 
given above, promises to bring still greater additions to our knowledge 
No erican a than any of the previous publications. This 
first part embraces only the Mammalia ; sir if the Birds, Reptiles, Am- 
as n. 
Secretary of that establishment, Professor Baird—than w 
could a found better qualified for the task—has himself dence to 
ns of Mammalia collec The sam 
