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plates. — This Report is a full account of the useful aquatic ani- 

 mals from both Natural History and industrial points of view, 

 and its objects are well carried out. Thirty-two pages and 11 

 plates are devoted to the whale, eighty-two pages and 12 plates 

 to the seals and walrus, besides a map of the world (plate 24), 

 showing their geographical distribution ; and with like fulness, 

 varying according to the importance of the species, the many 

 kinds of edible, or otherwise useful, fishes are described, the 

 squids, the common mollusks, such as the oysters, clams, mussels, 

 etc. ; the Crustaceans, as the lobster, crabs, prawns, the common 

 starfish, etc. 



This contribution to the great and important subject of the 

 American Fisheries has been prepared under the supervision, and 

 largely the labor, of Mr. Goode, and at the joint expense of the 

 U. S. Census Office and the Smithsonian Institution. It is to be 

 followed by other volumes on the Fishing Grounds, the Fishing 

 Towns, the Fishery Industries, and related topics. 



2. Outlines for a Museum of Anatomy, prepared for the 

 Bureau of Education, by R. W. Shtjfeldt. 66 pp. 8vo. Dept. 

 of the Interior, Washington, 1885. — The author of this report 

 urges the importance of making museums of anatomy museums 

 of general structural zoology, and treats of the methods of form- 

 ing them and of the classification that should be adopted. The 

 discussion of the last topic occupies the most of the pages ; and 

 in the course of it, he illustrates, the view that the true order of 

 arrangement is that which best shows the successional order and 

 relations of the groups and species, and advises as to the species 

 in each group that are most illustrative in this and other respects, 

 and which therefore should be preferred for a museum. 



3. Earthquakes in JVew England (Appalachia, 1886, p. 190). 

 — Professor W. M. Davis has in Appalachia an interesting map 

 of the earthquakes of New England, illustrating an article on the 

 subject. 



4. Medals of the Geological Society. — The Wollaston Gold 

 Medal, at the annual general meeting of the Geological Society of 

 London in February, was given to the eminent mineralogist of 

 France, Professor Des Cloizeaux ; the Murchison Medal, to Mr. 

 William Whitaker ; the Lyell Medal, to Mr. William Pengelly, 

 made famous by his investigations of the cavern, Kent's Hole ; 

 and the award from the Barlow-Jameson fund to Dr. H. J. 

 Johnston-Lavis. 



5. Medal of the Astronomical Society of London. — The gold 

 medal of the Astronomical Society has been given to the Harvard 

 astronomer, Professor E. C. Pickering. 



The Auk. The Auk for April, 1886, contains a paper of sixty pages on the 

 birds of the West Indies (including the Bahamas and the Greater and Lesser 

 Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad) by Charles B. Corey. 



