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1876.) 
able as a text-book for boys and girls. We hope to see it introduced 
into every school in the country, for sooner or later zodlogy will have 
to be taught in all our common schools, at least so much of it as to 
cause children to collect and observe the common animals they meet 
with in their daily walks. An excellent feature of this book is that the 
child is led to examine the object and compare it with others, and is then 
stimulated to see how it acts, thus unconsciously getting some glimpses 
at least of the principles of morphology and physiology. The objects 
are called by their common names. The author has had the good sense 
to omit the scientific names, thus rendering the book vastly more attract- 
ive and useful. Many readers are anxious to first learn the Latin names, 
and are too often content to stop here. The scientific name is the 
thing of least importance. The author well illustrates, in the preface, 
the difficulty and mental confusion resulting from, the present state of 
zoölogical nomenclature, the bane or necessary evil of the study of 
biology. 
Tur Movements anp Hasits or Cimpine Piants.1— We wish 
to refer our readers to a review of this book, and of Mr. Darwin’s treatise 
on Insectivorous Plants, in recent numbers of the Nation. Our readers 
will recognize in the review the thorough analysis and clear statement 
which characterize Professor Gray’s criticisms. It may be well to add 
to the review a single statement which is based on the opening sentences 
of Climbing Plants ; namely, that Mr. Darwin had his attention first 
called to the subject several years ago, by a short paper by Professor 
Gray on the movement of certain tendrils. 
Recent Books AND Pampntets. — Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. 
By Gilbert White. With Notes, by Frank Buckland ; a Chapter on jE se 
Lord Selborne ; and pen Letters. Illustrated by P. H. Delamote. Londor : Mac 
millan & Co. 1875. p. 591. 00 
Norse My thology ; or ts Religion of our Forefathers. Containing all the Myths of 
nas Eddas, systematized and interpreted. With an Introduction, Vocabulary, and 
ing: By R. B. Anderson. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co, 1875. 12mo, pp. 473. 
Principal Characters of the Dinocerata. Part I. By Prof. O. C. Marsh. With 
A plates. (From the American Journal of Science and Arts, February, 1876.) 
PP. 6. 
The ae Loews of Crude Drugs and other Vegetable Products. 
F rof. M. W. ington. Ann Arbor, Mich. 8vo, pp. 3 
4 resh- Water Shell. Wadia of St. John’s River, Florida. By Jeffries Wyman. 
( tabody Academy of Science, Fourth Memoir.) Salem, Mass. 1875. Royal 8vo, 
e nine plates, pp. 94. $2.00. For sale by the Naturalist’s Agenc 
i arbors of Alaska, and the Tides and Currents in their Vicinity ‘By W. H. Dall, 
Gasca, Coast Survey Report. Washington, D. C. No. 10. 4to, pp. 36. With 
an of Seomiphical and Hydrographical Explorations on the Coast of see 
W. H. D he S. Coast Survey. Appendix No. 11. Washington, D. C. 
ia. E Th po and aoe Climbing Plants. By CHARLES Darwin. Lon- 
John Murray. 1875 
