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appears to have been to ascertain the practical value of the various 

 deodorants, and he decides in favour of sulphate of iron, as Professor 

 PeltenkofTer and Professor Eolleston had also previously done. 



Miscellaneous. 



M. de Quatrefages has just published his great work on 

 Annelids, illustrated by one hundred and fifteen figures drawn by 

 himself from life. The plates are good though not truly coloured, 

 and the work is altogether one of very considerable worth. It has 

 not, however, as regards the systematic portion, the conciseness and 

 sufficient detail of such works as Malingren's and Kinberg's, two 

 Scandinavian naturalists, who exhibit most striking ability in the 

 treatment of the systematic zoology of these invertebrates. M. de 

 Quatrefages has published during the last twenty years many 

 memoirs on families and species of Annelids, detailing new points 

 and discoveries in their anatomy and physiology, and in these 

 volumes the chapter on anatomy and physiology is undoubtedly 

 the best. The author is not a critical naturalist, and hence we 

 could not have expected a more satisfactory result from his labours 

 on the classification and synonymy of the group. This is much to 

 be regretted, since a work which shall tend to set right the species 

 of Annelids is much needed. M. de Quatrefages, we fear, has only 

 added to the difficulty of future writers. His remarks on the 

 nomenclature of parts in the Annelida are very good so far as they 

 go, but there is little attempt at philosophical generalization. At 

 the same time the work is one of very great value and interest, by 

 an author who has done more to elucidate the class than any other 

 living naturalist. 



The 'Kecord of Zoological Literature' for the year 1865 has 

 also appeared : a work of inestimable value to an active naturalist. 

 Dr. E. P. Wright has succeeded Messrs. Greene and Cobbold in 

 then' departments of the work, and we are bound to say that the 

 recorders have done their work excellently well, comprising as it 

 does references to, and notices of, no less than 35,000 pages of 

 zoological literature published in the year 1865. This 'Kecord' 

 is of course one that can only be read by Zoologists ; but it should 

 also be placed for reference in the hbrary of every man of science. 

 It is one of those works which would never have seen the light 

 were it not for the disinterested love of science manifested by the 

 publisher, Mr. Van Voorst, F.L.S., who, if he fails to derive profit 

 from its publication, is at least entitled to the credit of being one 

 of the most zealous friends of zoological science that we have in 

 Great Britain. The first number of the ' Journal of Anatomy and 

 Physiology ' contains chiefly papers read at the British Association 

 and Dr. Humphry's address to his department in full. Besides 



