Geology and Natural History. 87 



19. British Museum Catalogues. — The following have been 

 recently received : 



Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). Volume V. Perissodactyla, Hyracoidea, 

 Proboscidea ; with addenda to the earlier volumes ; by the late 

 Richard Lydekker. Pp. xlv, 207 ; 31 figs. — This concluding 

 volume opens with an excellent portrait of Mr. Lydekker, the 

 author of the work, whose death occurred in April, 1915 (see vol. 

 xl, p. 668). Fortunately it was found that his preparations for 

 the present volume had progressed so far that it has been possible 

 to bring it out as he left it. The families here included are the 

 horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses, hyraxes and elephants. 



Report on Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts during 1915 

 (with one map), by S. F. Harmer. Pp. 12. — War conditions 

 have not been favorable for observations such as those included 

 in the present paper, hence, only 28 specimens are recorded for 

 1915, compared with 76 in 1913 and 57 in 1914. This year, how- 

 ever, includes a record of a specimen of Cuvier's whale, and a 

 new record of Sowerby's whale, both very rare on the British 

 coast. 



20. The Museum, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 

 — Science Bulletin, vol. 3, No 1, on the Long Island Fauna (IV), 

 has recently appeared. The subject is " The Sharks," by John 

 T. Nichols and Robert C. Murphy. Pp. 34 ; 3 pis., 19 figs. 



21. The Involuntary Nervous System; by W. H. Gaskell. 

 Pp. ix, 178, with several diagrams in colors. London, 1916 

 (Longmans, Green and Co.). — This is the first volume of a series 

 of monographs on physiology, to be written by English physiol- 

 ogists who have authority in their special 'fields of research. The 

 book is essentially an epitome of the author's yearly lectures on 

 the subject, and was completed during the last two months of 

 his life. It consists of a general account of our present knowl- 

 edge of the distribution and functions of the sympathetic and 

 allied nervous systems of vertebrates. w. r. c. 



22. laboratory Manual in General Microbiology / by Ward 

 Giltner and Associates in the Laboratory of Bacteriology, 

 Hygiene, and Pathology, Michigan Agricultural College. Pp. 

 xvi, 418. New York, 1916 (John Wiley and Sons), — This labora- 

 tory guide contains complete directions for the isolation, cultiva- 

 tion, and study of bacteria, yeasts, and molds. The book is 

 designed to furnish the student with sufficient information to 

 enable him to cany on his laboratory experiments with the 

 minimum assistance from the instructor. There are explicit direc- 

 tions for preparing culture media, stains, and other reagents, 

 with typical experiments to illustrate the physiology of micro- 

 organisms. There are also special exercises on the microbiology 

 of air, water, sewage, soil, dairy, and plants, and on animal dis- 

 eases and immunity. w. r. c. 



