144 Chronicles of Science.- [Jan., 



Zoology. — In this branch it is satisfactory to find that our colonial 

 friends are working earnestly towards a systematic account of the 

 various groups of the animal kingdom, as represented in the respective 

 provinces. It will be sufficient to mention the principal memoirs. The 

 " Soricinte of Nova Scotia " are described by Dr. J. Bernard Gilpin ; 

 the "Mollusca of the Bermudas," by Mr. J. M. Jones, F.L.S. ; the 

 " Butterflies of Halifax, N.S.," by Mr. Thomas Belt. Dr. Gilpin, in ad- 

 dition has a paper " On Introduced Species of Nova Scotia," with special 

 reference to the breed of wild ponies, which, originally turned loose 

 on Sable Island, have been left to themselves for 150 or 200 years. 

 He compares them with the present wild stock now existing solely in 

 Tartary, and he concludes that in the period mentioned these animals 

 have returned, almost literally, to the habits of the old primal stock, 

 never yet subdued by man. 



