92 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



It is in these difficulties to enclose nature in the different 

 ''kraals " of systematic natural history that the true biological 

 evidence for organic evolution is to be found. 



Biologia Animale (Zoologia Generate e Speciale) per Naturalisti, 

 Medici, e Veterinari. Del Dott. Gedeone Collamarini. 

 Milan : Ulrico Hoepli. 



This is one of the latest publications in the ' Manuali 

 Hoepli,' and, as will be understood by the title, is an attempt in 

 a small volume to condense the information which is distributed 

 over a very wide field. Thus, in the introduction, we find the 

 subject of Zoological Nomenclature, with a considerable number 

 of rules or axioms respecting the Law of Priority. A chapter is 

 devoted to Anthropology, another to Medical Zoology, and a 

 third to Agricultural Zoology. These, in addition to sections 

 on Anatomy, Embryology, Physiology, and Systematic Zoology, 

 comprised in a small volume of 426 pages, sufficiently proclaim 

 that the subject is necessarily treated in a most restricted sense. 

 As the book is written in the Italian language, it is unlikely to 

 be much in vogue among English readers, but is worthy of 

 record as showing a widening of horizon as to special subjects, 

 though distinctly peculiar in ignoring the claims of Palaeontology 

 to be included in its purview. It is probably intended for the 

 use of schools. 



Faune de France : Les Oiseaux. Par A. Acloque. Paris: 

 Bailliere et Fils. 

 The last publication of this series — of which we have already 

 noticed some other volumes — is devoted to Birds, and is written 

 on precisely the same method as pusued in the treatment of other 

 animals. The facilities of a synoptical classification and a 

 profuse illustration are again presented to the student ; and if 

 the first does not always secure its object — as few of these 

 attempts do — and the second are somewhat coarse, we have at 

 least a manual which is inexpensive, and one which will no doubt 

 prove helpful to many a young ornithologist. Over six hundred 

 figures are given in the comparatively short space of 252 pages. 



