80 Scientific Intelligence. 



1888, pp. 51. — This, the first part of a most important work, com- 

 prises the polypetalre. Under each species are enumerated the 

 species of fungi reported as living thereon. When the number 

 is small, the names are given in alphabetical order, but, where 

 the number is large, the species are placed under their proper 

 orders, and there alphabetically arranged. A list prepared with 

 the care which has been given to every page of this work, is not 

 only a convenience to some mycologists and a necessity to others, 

 but it exerts a useful influence from its conservative tendency. 

 It will possibly check the multiplication of specific names in this 

 too inviting field for the making of new species; in fact the hope 

 that this might be the case, was one of the inducements which 

 has led to its publication. The great amount of time and labor 

 given to the preparation of a critical index like this can be ap- 

 preciated only by those who have seen its slow growth under the 

 untiring hands of its authors. g. l. g. 



*7. Bibliotheca Zoologica II, bearbeitet von Dr. O. Taschen- 

 beeg, 6te Lieferung, sig. 201-240, pp, 1651-1970, Leipzig, 1888 

 (Wm. Engelraann). — The sixth part of this important work, de- 

 voted to the bibliography of Insects, including the Hemiptera, 

 Aphaniptera, Diptera and Lepidoptera, has recently been issued. 



Bulletin of the N. H. Society of New Brunswick. No. VII, (Saint John, 1888), 

 contains a paper by W. F. Ganong, on the Echinodermata of New Brunswick; on 

 the Mollusca of the Oyster beds of New Brunswick, by W. H. Winkley; and on 

 the question, Does our Indigenous Flora show a recent change of climate, by J. 

 Vroom 



The Geological Record for 1880-1 884, inclusive ; a list of publications on Geology, 

 Mineralogy and Paleontology published duriug these years, etc. Edited by Wil- 

 liam Topley and Charles Davies Sherbon, Vol. I. Stratigraphical and Descriptive 

 Geology. 544 pp. 8vo. London, 1888 (Taylor and Francis). 



A short account of the History of Mathematics by Walter W. Rouse Ball. 

 464 pp. 12tio. London and New York, 1888 (Macmillan and Co.). 



Bulletin No. 47, of the U. S. Geo!. Survey, contains analyses of waters of the 

 Yellowstone National Park by F. A. Gooch and J. E. Whitfield. 



Thirty thousand years of the Earth's Past History, read by aid of the discov- 

 ery of the Second Rotation of the Earth, by Maj. Gen. A. W. Drayson, F.R.A.S. 

 London. 1888 (Chapman & Hall). 



Missouri Rainfall, by Prof F. B Nipher. 6 pp. 8vo, with maps of the rain- 

 fall for the year and each month of the year. St Louis, 1888. 



Darwinism, a brief history of the Darwiuian theory of the origin of species, 

 by Dr. D. S. Jordan. 64 pp , 12mo. Chicago, 1888 (A. B. Gehman & Co.). 



Soaps and Candles. Edited by James Cameron, F. I. C. 306 pp. 12mo. Phil- 

 adelphia, 1888 (P. Blakiston, Son & Co.). 



A Text Book of Euclid's Elements, for the use of schools. Parts I and II, 

 containing Books I-VI, by H. S. Hall and F. H. Stevens. 382 pp., 12mo. Lon- 

 don and New York (Macmillan & Co.). 



Elemente der Pakeontologic bearbeitet von Dr. G. Steinmann, unter Mitwir- 

 kung von Dr. Ludwig Doderlein. lte Halfte (Bogen 1-21 ). Evertebrata (Proto- 

 zoa-Gastropoda). 336 pp. 8vo. Leipzig, 1888 (Wm. Engelmann). 



CEuvres completes de Chr. Huygens, publ. par la Soc. Hollandaise des Sciences. 

 The" first volume, in 4to, has been recently Issued. 



