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tologists. London, 1913 (Macmillan and Co. Price $6.50). — 

 Invertebrate paleontologists have long been looking for the 

 second edition of the well known Zittel-Eastman Text-book of 

 Paleontology, the first edition of which was published in 1900 and 

 has long been out of print. The first edition had 706 pages with 

 1476 illustrations ; the new book has grown to 839 pages and 

 1594 illustrations. In the previous edition, the editor had the 

 assistance of twelve collaboratoi's, and of these three only have 

 taken part in the present edition, but the latter contains the work 

 of fourteen new collaborators. It is essentially an American 

 revision, with the assistance of Doctor W. T. Caiman of the 

 British Museum (Natural History) and Doctor Anton Handlirsch 

 of the Royal Natural History Museum, Vienna. 



The book is as up-to-date as a work of this kind can be and 

 treats of all classes of invertebrates found fossil. More than 

 5400 genera are considered, illustrated, or referred to the proper 

 place in the organic classification and the geologic column. 



The greatest changes from the first edition are in the following 

 groups : Foraminifera (by Cushman), Hexacoralla (Vaughan), 

 Graptolitoidea (Ruedemann), Cystoidea and Crinoidea (Springer), 

 Echinoidea (Jackson), Bryozoa (Bassler, who has seen to it 

 that the Trepostomata Bryozoa no longer parade among the 

 tabulate corals), Brachiopoda (Schuchert), Gastropoda (Dall), 

 Ammonoidea (J. P. Smith), Trilobita (Raymond), Branchiopoda 

 and Ostracoda (Bassler), Malacostraca (Caiman), Merostomata 

 (John M. Clarke), scorpions, spiders, etc. (Petrunkevitch), and 

 Insecta (Handlirsch). 



The book will be of great service to all paleontologists and 

 teachers of graduate courses in paleozoology and stratigraphic 

 geology. c. s. 



5. The Life of the Molhisca ; by B. B. Woodward. Pp. xi, 

 158 ; 32 plates and map. London, 1913 (Methuen and Co.). — 

 This book, by a well known naturalist, gives an accurate sum- 

 mary of the living Mollusca from a semi-popular viewpoint, with 

 an abundance of good illustrations arranged in thirty-two plates 

 at the end of the work. At six shillings the book is not expen- 

 sive, though one wishes for better binding. The reader is first 

 made acquainted with the general structure of the various types 

 of shell-fish, and then with their classification. Chapter three 

 recites very briefly the geological history of the phylum and the 

 next chapter gives the zoogeography as arranged in nineteen 

 marine "provinces" and thirty-one land "regions," that are also 

 indicated on a mercator map of the world. How the molluscs 

 live is next described, and following it their reproduction and 

 something of their evolution. The final chapter is on instinct, 

 intelligence, and utility. c. s. 



6. Victoria Memorial Museum, Bulletin No. 1, 1913. — This 

 new serial of the Geological Survey of Canada is intended to 

 bring out the results of the staff at work upon the collections in 

 the Victoria Memorial Museum at Ottawa. The articles in the 



