Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



311 



Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game; by J. G. 

 Dollman. Pp. vii, 112; with a frontispiece portrait (1906) 

 by Leo Weinthal of Frederick Courteney Selous. 



Economic Series. — No. 2. — The Louse as a menace to man. 

 Its life-history and methods for its destruction; by James 

 Waterston. Pp. 20, with one plate and 2 text figures. 1921. 



No. 12. The Cockroach : its life history and how to deal with 

 it; by Frederick Laing. Pp. 18, with 2 text figures and 3 

 figures on the frontispiece plate. 



6. Register zum Zoologischer Anzeiger, begrilndet von 

 J. Victor Carus. Herausgegeben von Prof. Eugen Korschelt. 

 Band xxxvi-xl und Bibliographia Zoologica, vol. xviii-xxii. Pp. 

 605. Leipzig 1922 (Wilhelm Engelmann. Price 280 marks, 

 with addition for foreign countries) . — This monumental work fol- 

 lows essentially the lines laid down in earlier indexes already 

 published. The six hundred pages, closely printed and in clear 

 but small type, give in one alphabetical series both the name of 

 the author and his various articles with the names of the individ- 

 ual species. The extent of this work and, at the same time, its 

 value to the zoologist, may be in a measure understood from the 

 rough estimate that the Index includes something like 60,000 

 separate entries. 



7. Georg Weber's Lehr- unci Handbuch der Weltgeschichte. 

 Twenty -third edition, volume I, Altertum; bearbeitet von Prof. 

 Dr. E. Schwabe. Pp. xv, 793. Leipzig, 1921 (Wilhelm Engel- 

 mann). — Weber's well-known and widely used Weltgeschichte 

 was first issued in 1846, seventy-six years ago. Since then many 

 new editions have been published, and the interesting history of 

 the development of this remarkable work is given in the preface to 

 the 21st edition issued in 1902 by Professor A. Baldamus. The 

 22d and 23d editions have been carried through by Professor E. 

 Schwabe; the latter bears the date of April, 1921. It is not to 

 be wondered at that the subject, once covered in a single volume, 

 has now extended to two volumes of which the first is now before 

 us. This embraces the period from the earliest records of pre- 

 historic man and his work down to the Imperial period of Rome, 

 about 400 A.D. It is to this wide range of history that the pres- 

 ent volume is devoted. 



The opening 25 pages give a concise summary of prehistoric 

 man, his development, speech, religious and political forms so far 

 as they can be learned from the imperfect records in existence. 

 Subsequent chapters of part I (I to VII) deal with the people of 

 the East: the Chinese, East Indians, Babylonian- Assyrians, the 

 Semitic people in general and the Israelites in particular, and 

 finally the Persian. The second part, in four chapters, discusses 

 in detail Grecian history from 1500 B. C. to 190 B. C. Part third 



