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half the province is less than 14° C. The annual humidity 

 reaches 82 per cent on the northeast coast line, while in the cen- 

 tral and western part of the province it is under 10 per cent. 

 The annual rainfall in the Parana delta is l,000 mm , but there is 

 a regular decrease to the southwest until the minimum (300 mm ) is 

 reached on the Rio N~egro. About two-thirds of the province 

 has an elevation less than 100 m . h. e. g. 



2. The British Museum Catalogues. — The following publica- 

 tions have been recently issued : 



A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds (Nomenclator 

 avium turn fossilium turn viventium) ; by R. Bowdler Shaepe, 

 LL.D. Vol. ii, pp. xv, 312. London, 1900. Includes all species 

 of Psittaci and what are known as Picarian birds; there are 

 enumerated 454 genera and 2861 species. See also vol. viii, p. 398. 



Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, 

 British Museum (Natural History). The Jurassic Flora. I, The 

 Yorkshire Coast. Pp. xii, 341, pi. i-xxi. By A. C. Seward, 

 M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. London, 1900. 



3. A Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 1J{.92-1897 ; by Henry 

 Caerixgtox Bolton. Pp. 534. Washington, 1901. (Smithso- 

 nian Miscellaneous Collections, 1253. Section tilt. Academic 

 Dissertation.) — Professor Bolton continues his laborious but 

 most useful task of collecting chemical bibliography. The latest 

 addition to the series is this large volume of academic disserta- 

 tions, arranged alphabetically according to authors, but with a 

 full subject-index to titles at the end (pp. 445-534). 



4. Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, J. W. 

 Powell, Director. — It is impossible here to do more than record 

 the recent issue of the following valuable volumes : 



Seventeeth Annual Report of the Director with accompanying 



papers. In two parts : Part I, pp. xciii, 468 ; Part II, pp. 469-752. 



Eighteenth Annual Report. In two parts : Part I, pp. lvii, 518. 



5. Field Columbian Museum. The following is a list of recent v 

 publications : 



No. 45. Zoological Series. Yol. II. A Synopsis of the Mammals of North 

 America and the adjacent seas; by Daniel Giraud Elliot, curator. Pp. 470. 

 Chicago, 1901. 



No. 61. Anthropological Series. Yol. II, No. 4. An Aboriginal Quartzite 

 Quarry in Eastern Wyoming; by George A. Dorsey, curator. Pp. 235-243. 

 Plates xxvm-xxix. Chicago, 1900. 



No. 52. Report Series. Yol. I, No, 6. Annual Report of the Director to the 

 Board of Trustees, for the year 1899-1900. Pp. 413-512. Chicago, 1900. 



No. 53. Geological Series. Yol, I, No. 8. Observations on Indiana Caves ; 

 by Oliver Cummmgs Farrington. Pp. 247-266. Chicago, 1901. 



No. 54. Zoological Series. Yol. Ill, No. 3. List of Mammals obtained by 

 Thaddeus Surber, Collector for the Museum in the Provinces of New Brunswick 

 and Quebec, Canada; by D. G. Elliot, curator. Pp. 15-29. Chicago, 1901. 



6. Scientia. L'Evolution du Pigment; per G. Bohn. Pp. 94. 

 — This is the eleventh volume of this valuable series. Paris, 1901 

 (Georges Carre et C. Naud). 



