No. 404.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 681 
: An annotated catalogue of the ferns and flowering plants of 
Oklahoma, by Professor Bogue, constitutes Buletin No. 45 of the 
Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station. 
An interesting series of plant-formation figures is being published 
in the current numbers of the Revue Générale de Botanique, in. illus- 
tration of a paper by Boergesen and Paulsen on the vegetation of 
the Danish West Indies. | 
The flora of the Azores, which was summarized in the Zighth 
Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, receives several important 
additions in a paper by Gandoger, published in the Buletin de la 
Société Botanique de France for February. 
PAL/EONTOLOGY. 
Zittel’s Text-Book.' — The appearance of von Zittel's Grundzüge 
der Palaeontologie in 1895 was generally welcomed as being a most 
convenient and well-executed outline of the elements of the science. 
No English translation of any similar foreign book on the general 
subject had heretofore been published, and the excellence of this 
Work and the fame of its distinguished author seemed to demand its 
reproduction into English. 
Dr. Charles R. Eastman undertook the translation and editing. 
As a former pupil of Professor von Zittel, and a paleontologist him- 
self, he was especially well qualified for this task. After consulta- 
tion with a number of leading educators, and with the consent of the 
author, it was decided to submit different portions to specialists for 
independent revision. The plan of the original work has been fol- 
lowed throughout, though the amount of revision really makes it a 
distinct publication. 
The early chapters on the Protozoa and Ceelenterata received very 
little alteration and stand essentially as in the original. The list of 
collaborators and the subjects revised by them are as follows : Wachs- 
muth, the Crinoidea and Blastoidea; Sladen, Asteroidea and Echin- 
ozoa ; Hinde, Vermes; Ulrich, Bryozoa and Ostracoda; Schuchert, 
Brachiopoda; Dall, Pelecypoda; Pilsbry, Gastropoda; Hyatt, Ceph- 
alopoda; Beecher, Trilobita; Clarke and Kingsley, the Eucrustacea 
1l Zittel, Karl A. von. Text-Book of Paleontology. Translated and edited by 
Charles R. Eastman. London, Macmillan & Co. 1900. Vol. i x+ 706 pp. 
1476 woodcuts. 
