2S4 Scientific Intelligence. 



first issue deal with Paleontology (9 papers), Paleobotany (2), 

 Mineralogy (1), Natural History (3), and Anthropology (1)'. 



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7. Atlas der Krystallf or men ; von Victor Goldschmidt. Vol- 

 ume II ; Text, pp. 200 ; Atlas, plates 251. Heidelberg, 1913 

 (Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung). — The first volume of 

 Goldschmidt's Atlas, published six months since, was noticed in 

 the number for October, 1913 (p. 313), and at that time the plan 

 of the author was discussed at length. It is gratifying to receive 

 now volume II of the text and plates, and to have thus an evi- 

 dence of the promptness with which this great work is being- 

 carried through. Mineralogists are to be congratulated, as well 

 as the author himself, that the completion of the work may be 

 looked for at no distant date. The present volume includes all 

 the species from calaverite to cyanochroite, and the extraordinary 

 thoroughness of the work will be appreciated from the fact that 

 the single species calcite extends over 152 plates, with a total of 

 2544 figures. The wealth of information thus given to the min- 

 eralogical student is really extraordinary ; the figures are grouped 

 according to habit and the completeness of the whole leaves 

 nothing to be desired. Other species also treated at length are 

 cerussite, with 476 figures ; celestite, with 270; columbite, with 

 90 figures. The accompanying text gives exhaustive references 

 to the literature, with tabular summaries of the forms noted on 

 the different species. 



8. Pal'eontologie Vegetate — Cryptogames cellulaires et crypto- 

 games vasculaires / by Fernaud Pelourde ; preface by M. R. 

 Zeiller. Small 12mo. Pp. xxviii, 360 with 80 figures in text. 

 Paris, 1914 (Encyclopedie Scientifique ; Octave Doin et Fils). — 

 One of a five-franc series covering the pure and applied sciences. 

 This is the most compact paleobotanic text thus far published. 

 Print and illustrations are good, and the references to original 

 sources usually given. Including the recent results of Paleozoic 

 fern study, this little book is timely and must prove usable. It 

 may be pointed out, however, that while the initial topic Algae 

 occupying 14 pages might have been extended, the important 

 examination of boghead and cannel coals by Jeffrey has been 

 overlooked. He has shown conclusively that forms like Pilot, 

 bibractensis, etc. (fig. 1) are not algal but the reproductive spores 

 of the commoner types of coal plants. G. R. w. 



9. Fabre, Poet of Science ; by Dr. C. V. Legros ; with a 

 preface by J. H. Fabre. Translated by Bernard Mi all. Pp. 

 352. New York, 1913 (The Century Co.).— Fabre's ten vol- 

 umes of Souvenirs entomologiqnes contain the most marvelous 

 and vivid accounts of the habits and instincts of the insect world 

 that have ever been written. The style of the original publica- 

 tion was so unattractive, however, and the author of so modest a 

 nature that the work remained for many years almost unknown 

 even by entomologists. But within the past two years Fabre's fame 

 has spread throughout the world, and many of the wonderful 



