19ft THE ZOOLOGIST. 



but two of these appeared to be new to science. One of them was a new 

 Deer, proposed to be called Pudua mephistophelis, and the other a Rodent 

 of the genus Ichthyomys, which was named I. soderstromi. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on the Anatomy of a Grebe, JEchmophorns 

 major, and added some remarks upon the Classification of the Charadriiform 

 Birds, to which he considered the Auks to be more nearly related than to 

 the Grebes. 



A communication was read from Messrs. F. D. Godman and 0. Salviu 

 on the Butterflies of St. Vincent, Grenada, and the adjoining islands, based 

 on the collections made by Mr. Herbert H. Smith. 



A communication was read from Miss E. M. Sharpe containing an 

 account of the Lepidoptera obtained by Dr. Donaldson Smith during his 

 recent expedition to Lake Rudolf. Examples of ninety-one species were 

 obtained, of which two were apparently new: these were described as 

 Panopea walensensis and Papilio donaldsoni. A second paper by Miss 

 Sharpe contained an account of the Lepidoptera obtained by Mrs. E. Lort 

 Phillips in Somaliland. Eighty-four species were enumerated, one of which, 

 Teracolus ludovicice, appeared to be undescribed. 



A communication from Mr. W. F. Kirby contained descriptions of some 

 Dragonflies obtained by Mr. and Mrs. Lort Phillips in Somaliland. Three 

 of these were described as new to science. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS, 



The Life of Joseph Wolf Animal Painter. By A. H. Palmer. 

 8vo, pp. i — xviii, 1 — 328. With numerous Illustrations. 

 London : Longmans, Green & Co. 



Two-and-twenty years ago, when reviewing, anonymously,* 

 Wolf's ' Life and Habits of Wild Animals,' published in 1874 by 

 Macmillan, we took occasion to give a sketch of the artist's life, 

 and a brief notice of his works to that date, commenting upon 

 the extraordinary way in which the general public at that time 

 failed to recognize and properly appreciate his unrivalled skill as 

 an animal painter. Mr. A. H. Palmer, in the ' Life ' which is 

 now before us, has unconsciously paid us the compliment of 

 printing an extract from that review as one of the very few which 

 he says is worth quoting from the score or so of press notices 

 collected by him. Twenty years is a long time to wait for a 



« The Field,' 3rd January, 1874. 



