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III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. British Museum Publications. — The following important 

 works have recently been received : 



The History of the Collections contained in the Natural His- 

 tory Departments of the British Museum. Vol. II. Separate 

 Historical Accounts of the Several Collections included in the 

 Department of Zoology. Pp. 782. — This nistory of the zoolog- 

 ical collections of the British Museum contains much that is of 

 more than a local interest. There are eleven chapters, prepared 

 by separate authors. Of these that by R. Bowlder Sharpe on 

 the Bii'ds is much the longest (pp. 79-516), for this department 

 was one to which attention was given very early. Unfortunately 

 many of the older specimens known to have been in the Museum 

 no longer survive. 



Catalogue of the Madreporian Corals in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). Volume VI. The Family Poritidse. -II. The 

 Genus Porites. Part II. Pontes of the Atlantic and West Indies, 

 with the European Fossil Forms. The Genus Goniopora, a Sup- 

 plement to Volume IV. By Henry M. Bernard. Pp. vi, 173, 

 with 17 plates. — The fifth volume of this work (see v. xxi, 474) 

 was given to the Poritids of the Indo-Pacific region. The 

 present volume goes on with the account of the genus embrac- 

 ing the forms so far known living in the North and South Atlan- 

 tic, in the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico, also fossil forms 

 from the Paris and Mediterranean Basins. 



A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera ; by W. F. Kirby. 

 Volume II. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I, Achetidse et Phas- 

 gonuridse. Pp. viii, 562. — The first volume of Dr. Kirby's Cata- 

 logue of the Orthoptera was issued in 1904 (see v. xix, 332). 

 The present volume includes the Crickets and Long-horned 

 Grasshoppers ; the Locustidse, or the Short-horned Grasshoppers, 

 will form the third and concluding volume. 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalsenas in the British Museum. 

 Volume VI. Catalogue of the Noctuidse in the Collection of the 

 British Museum ; by Sir George F. Hampson. Pp. xiv, 532. 

 Plates xcvi-cvii. — This sixth volume of the Catalogue of Moths (see 

 v. xix, 472) is devoted to the Cucullianse, the third of the fifteen 

 subfamilies; 692 species belonging to 11 1 genera are described. 



2. Report of the Surveyor to the Governor of the Territory 

 of Hawaii for the Eighteen Months ending December 31, 1906. — 

 This report of the Surveyor, Mr. Walter E. Wall, to Governor 

 G. R. Carter, closes with the following paragraph, emphasizing 

 the need of a geological survey to which the general Government 

 should well give liberal support. 



" As to the survey needs of the Territory which this office has 

 not the force to meet, a geological survey which would include 

 a study of the water resources of the country appears most 



