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Perhaps the most valuable chapter in this volume is that 

 entitled " Head Measurements of the Trophies at the Madison 

 Square Garden Sportmen's Exhibition " (pp. 424-432). In this 

 will be found some very useful statistics, compiled by three 

 members of the Boone and Crockett Club (Messrs. Roosevelt, 

 Grinnell, and Rogers), including tabulated measurements of 

 Bison, Bighorn, Musk Ox, White Goat, Prongbuck, Wapiti, 

 Mule Deer, White-tailed Deer, Moose, and Cariboo. These 

 measurements are compared with those given in the English 

 Catalogue of Trophies in the American Exhibition in London, 

 1887, and also with those in Ward's Book of Horn Measure- 

 ments, 1892, a high compliment being paid to the English Com- 

 mittee who prepared the Catalogue of 1887, and who may be said 

 to have laid the foundation for a collection of reliable and trust- 

 worthy statistics relating to the Big Game of America, as 

 interesting to sportsmen as it is useful to zoologists. 



This volume then is not to be regarded as embodying merely 

 a sensational account of the doings of American sportsmen, for 

 while many of the chapters are not devoid of thrilling adventure, 

 they contain much useful information derived from the personal 

 observation of experienced hunters. 



A Naturalist in Mid Africa : a Journey to the Mountains of the 

 Moon and Tanganyika. By G. F. Scott Elliott, M.A., 

 F.L.S. 8vo, pp. i — xvi, 1 — 413. With numerous illustra- 

 tions and maps. London : Innes & Co. 1896. 



When the author of this interesting volume returned, rather 

 more than a year ago, from his adventurous ascent of Mount 

 Ruwenzori, and exploration of the country to the north of the 

 Albert Edward Nyanza, he read papers at the Geographical, 

 Linnean, and Zoological Societies, in which he gave a more or 

 less abridged narrative of his travels, and some account of the 

 flora and fauna of the country which he explored. In the 

 interval which has since elapsed it would seem that he has been 

 busily employed in the preparation of the volume now before us, 

 which embodies a full and complete account of his arduous 

 journey, and of the scientific results attained, so far at least as the 

 materials collected by him have been worked out (cf Appendix, 

 p. 387). 



