Miscellaneous Intelligence. T?l 



the type, the specific characters and, especially, carefully drawn 

 figures showing the essential features of tooth, skull, and limb, 

 which, as all students of our science know, are worth any amount 

 of verbal description. Not only are the text figures ample, but 

 they are supplemented by the beautifully drawn and contrast- 

 ingly arranged figures of the plates. 



This very real contribution to vertebrate paleontology is but 

 a forerunner of a promised monograph of the Equiclse which 

 Professor Osborn has had in preparation since 1900. r. s. l. 



6. The genus Homalonotus; by F. R. Cowper Reed. Geol. 

 Mag., n. s., dec. 6, vol. 5, pp. 263-276, 314-327, 1918.— The author 

 has carefully restudied all of the species of Homalonotus with a 

 view of a better generic classification of these trilobites. He 

 recognizes but a single genus, Homalonotus, and ten subgenera. 

 Of these three are new — Eohomalonotus, Brongniartella (to 

 replace the preoccupied Brongniartia of Salter), Burmeisterella, 

 and Parahomalonotus. The genotype of Homalonotus is H. 

 knightly and even though the author is well aware of this, he 

 uses the form again as characteristic of Koenigia, in this follow- 

 ing Salter 1865. According to the rules of nomenclature this 

 cannot be done, and Koenigia becomes a synonym of Homalonotus 

 sensu stricto. The reviewer recognizes, however, that this auto- 

 matic action under the rules does not express Professor Reed's 

 view, as H. knighti is a very specialized form of these trilobites. 



c. s. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Dispensaries, their Management and Development ; by 

 Michael M. Davis, Jr., and Andrew R. Warner. Pp. ix, 438. 

 New York, 1918 (The Macmillan Company). — Maintaining that 

 conditions after the war will result in reconstruction of medical 

 service in the direction of medical organization rather than of 

 medical individualism, the Dispensary is presented as the medical 

 organization which must cover the major portion of the field in 

 caring for disease, standing between the hospital and the Public 

 Health Department. The hospital cares for the acutely incapa- 

 citated, the Public Health Department deals usually with preven- 

 tive work .alone. But the Dispensary is an institution which 

 organizes the professional equipment and special skill of physi- 

 cians for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease 

 among ambulatory patients. 



The book is divided into three parts — the history and present 

 extent of dispensaries in the United States; the equipment, 

 organization, and daily conduct of dispensaries ; the presentation 

 of the dispensary as a form of organization for rendering 

 efficient medical service to the people. a. f. m. 



