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bers of Professor Verrill's parties. Many illustrate the more 

 interesting views of scenery and peculiar rock-formations ; others 

 show unusual or interesting forms of vegetation. Perhaps the 

 most remarkable are the reproductions of photographs (made 

 from life) of the tropic-bird and other birds, and of various 

 insects, including several butterflies, just in the act of taking 

 their first flight after emerging from the pupa-cases on which 

 they rest, and showing, at the same time, the larvae feeding on 

 their natural food-plants. One of the plates is an excellent like- 

 ness, with autograph, of the late Governor Lefroy, the only gov- 

 ernor who has ever shown much interest in the natural history 

 and archives of the islands, and who published several works on 

 the botany and early history of the islands. In the Addenda, 

 among other subjects, some of the early witchcraft trials are 

 given. They were much like those of Salem, Mass., though 

 about forty years earlier. 



9. Zoology of the Bermudas. Vol. I, 427 pp., 8vo, 45 plates, 

 many cuts. New Haven, Conn., March, 1903 ; by A. E. Vekrill 

 and associates. — This volume consists of reprints of fifteen princi- 

 pal articles, and some minor ones, relating to the zoology and 

 geology of the Bermudas, which have been published during the 

 past two years in the Trans. Conn. Acad, and elsewhere. They 

 all relate to the collections made by the expeditions to the islands 

 from Yale University, under the supervision of Professor Verrill. 

 Among the subjects treated are the corals, actiniae, annelids, 

 echinoderms, mollusca, isopods, decapods^ bryozoa, planarians, 

 spiders, the cahow and other birds, etc. Most of these articles 

 are freely illustrated and many new forms are described in sev- 

 eral of them. 



10. West Indian Madrepor avian Polyps ; by J. E. Duerden. 

 4to, 197 pp., 25 plates. Memoirs Nat. Acad. Sciences, VIII, 

 7th Mem. — Mr. Duerden, while residing several years in Jamaica, 

 took good advantage of his opportunities to study the soft 

 parts of a considerable variety of reef-corals that occur there. 

 In these memoirs he gives numerous details concerning their 

 anatomy and histology, well illustrated by numerous figures. 

 This work adds greatly to our knowledge of the animals of the 

 Madreporaria, as a whole, as well as to the particular forms 

 studied, which include species of Madrepora (Acropora), Porites, 

 Siderastrma, Solenastrma, Orbicella, Cladocora, Manicina, Mm- 

 andrina (Mmandra), Pavia, Isophyllia (Mussa), Oculina, etc. 

 An abstract of his results would be quite beyond the limits of a 

 review at this time. It is, perhaps, unfortunate that the author 

 has not adopted the revised nomenclature of the genera and 

 species treated, but in general there can be no doubt about the 

 identity of the species studied. However, it seems to me almost 

 certain that his " Agaricia fragilis" is not the species that prop- 

 erly bears that name, which is always pedicellate, while his form 

 is partially encrusting. \ a., e. v. 



11. The Coral Reefs of the Tropical Pacific ; by Alexander 



