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ica any more European, than is that of northern Europe, North 
Temperate American? This is a species of anthropomorphism in 
science that we are disposed to distrust, as facts of distribution of 
life in paleeozoic times, as Mr. Murray acknowledges, tend to show 
that the Silurian continental nucleus of Europe was not indebted to 
that of North America for its fauna, or vice versa ; and in all prob- 
ability there has been no interchange of forms between the Arctic 
and Antarctic lands. Do not the known facts in geographical 
distribution tend to show that the different continental nuclei have 
been from the first, distinct centres of distribution and evolution 
for the larger proportion of animals and plants, which may have 
evolved from ancestral forms, at the outset restricted to separate 
ocean beds, and separate continents ? 
Tur Bracntopopa or THE Coast Survey Exreprrioy.*—In this 
valuable contributjon to our knowledge of the Brachiopods, Mr. 
Dall instead of being content with giving a synonymical list of the 
species, with descriptions, enters as thoroughly as his material would 
allow into the anatomy of these animals. He also enumerates the 
characters of the class, and the two orders in which it is divided. 
As a striking feature in the anatomy of Terebratula Cubensis he 
also notes “the absence of that great series of sinuses in the an- 
terior part of the mantle, which was termed by Hancock ‘the 
great pallial sinuses.’ ” The illustrations are excellent. 
Sea Sipe Srupres 1N Narurat Hisrorr.t—A second edition of 
this useful book has appeared. As a preparatory note states, it is 
a mere reprint of the first edition, with a few verbal changes. 
brief notice of the recent deep sea explorations is added. 
CATALOGUE or EUROPEAN LEPIDOPTERA. t—A catalogue of Eu- 
ropean butterflies and moths is of great use to the American stu- 
dent, and we are glad to see an enlarged and revised edition of 
the present work, the only available catalogue we have. 
hen? > + ` in charge 
of L. F. de Pourtalés, with asec ‘and Discini nidee, by W H. Dall. 
Bulletin of the ager os of Comes aloes Vol. 3. No. 1 with 2 plates. Bidder May 
{Sea s ide Pt in Natural History, by Elizabeth C. Agassiz and Alexander Agas- 
siz. etre Animals of Mas rere se s Bay. Radiates. Boston. J.R. Osgo ood & Co. 
1871. 8vo pp. 157, with 186 wood 
silii der Lepidopteren he tick pwischen trie genre L Masont 
bearbeitet von Dr. O. cto nger; II, Microlepidoptera, bearbeitet yon Dr. M. Woe 
en, 1871. 8vo. pp. 426. 
