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were considered as of probable solution when the fauna of these 

 frigid wastes was studied, and we are indebted to the generous 

 enterprise of a private citizen, Sir George Newnes, that this 

 expedition was made possible. It was accompanied by Nikolai 

 Hanson, an accomplished zoological collector, who had already 

 done good work for both the British and Christiania Museums, 

 but who unfortunately succumbed to disease, and was buried on 

 this lone continent. 



The zoological results which will interest most of our readers 

 are to be found in Chapter VII. — " Among the Penguins " — 

 Eudyptes adeliae being the dominant species ; and the question 

 was solved as to the black-throated and white-thi'oated Penguins 

 being one species at different stages of plumage. The worst 

 enemy of these Penguins is a Skua {Lestris), " which con- 

 stantly soared over their nests, watching for an opportunity 

 when they might steal an egg or catch a young one." The 

 author claims, by the discovery of species of insects and members 

 of the shallow-water fauna, to have further proved the existence 

 of bipolarity, and we may expect to hear more of this expedi- 

 tion when the whole of the biological collections have been 

 worked out. 



Text-Book of Zoology, treated from a Biological Standpoint. By 

 Dr. Otto Schmeil. Translated from the German by 

 Rudolph Rosenstock, M.A. ; edited by J. T. Cunning- 

 ham, M.A. Part II. Birds, Reptiles, Fishes. Part III. 

 Invertebrates. Adam & Charles Black. 



Last year a notice of Part I. of this publication appeared in 

 our pages ; we have now received Parts II. and III., completing 

 the work. We then appraised this ' Text-Book ' as supplying a 

 want in introductory Zoology to school children, to whom zoology 

 is not an end, but a part of a liberal education. We still hold 

 that opinion despite many lacunae, and a general absence of 

 progressive nomenclature and classification. But to impart that 

 information is not the aim of the publication ; it is rather 

 designed to describe an animal as it is, more than its evolution- 

 ary position in the organic series, or under its more modern 

 cognomen in advanced scientific literature. It is suggestive 



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