19'2 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New 

 Guinea, Loyalty Islands, and elsewhere. Collected during 

 the 5'ears 1895-97. By Arthur Willey, D.Sc, Lond., &c. 

 Parts III., IV., and V. Cambridge : at the University 

 Press. 



Parts I. and II. of this truly biological publication were 

 noticed in 'The Zoologist' for 1899 (p. 90). Since that time 

 three more parts have appeared, and have maintained the 

 standard which the authors of the first instalments so well 

 initiated. It is difficult indeed to adequately draw attention to 

 Parts III., IV., and V. The authors are many, the subjects 

 numerous, and, we may add, relate to animals unfortunately 

 caviare to most of our readers. Thus the Enteropneusta, described 

 by Dr. Willey, represent a group scarcely recognized by many 

 zoologists of other special studies, and their position in animal 

 life understood by still fewer ; and yet inspire a communication 

 that really makes for a knowledge of organic evolution. Evolution 

 to-day is the talk of the man in the street ; though its principles 

 are understood by so few, that it is practically — so far as technical 

 knowledge is concerned — confined to the consideration of experts. 

 The most popular doctrines are generally those least understood 

 outside the circle of serious students. In Part IV. ornitho- 

 logists will find "A contribution towards our knowledge of the 

 pterylography of the Megapodii,"' by Mr. Pycraft ; while the 

 Robber Crab {Birgus latro), too often considered as having its 

 young born resembling the parent, is well described and illus- 

 trated in PartV. by Mr. Borradaileas producing its young in the 

 zosea stage. These short notices give no proper digest of the 

 contents of these last published parts ; but, for the reasons given 

 above, further review is beyond our space. It is a work for con- 

 sultation rather than for quotation, and it is a sign of the times 

 that several of the contributors are ladies. 



First on the Antarctic Continent, being an Account of the British 

 Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900. By C. E. Borchgrevink, 

 F.R.G.S. George Newnes, Limited. 



A KNOWLEDGE of the Antarctic regions is as much desired by 

 zoologists as by geographers. Many problems in zoo-geography 



