80 THE ZOOLOGIST. 

Guide to the Specimens of the Horse Family (Equide) exhibited in 
the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural His- 
tory). Printed by order of the Trustees of the British 
Museum. 
ALTHOUGH no name appears on the title-page, we read in the 
preface that this ‘‘ Guide-Book” is the work of Mr. R. Lydekker. 
It is, however, more than a guide-book, and is practically a 
short but condensed memoir on the Hquide, and as such is 
a publication to be remembered by students of the family. The 
National Collection now contains the skulls and some other 
parts of the skeletons of many of our celebrated thoroughbred 
racehorses, and their pedigree and performances are detailed in 
this small publication. This is a very welcome sign of the 
times, and a proper purview of a national and legitimate sport 
from the point of both the naturalist and the true sportsman is 
more likely to favour racing and the racehorse than the presence 
of mobs of gamblers at some plating saturnalia. We hope that 
the Museum will obtain many more of these trophies incidental 
to a national pastime and the improvement of man’s noblest 
domestic mammal. 
These pages are illustrated by twenty-six figures, and the 
cost of the publication is trifling. 

Records of the Indian Museum (a Journal of Indian Zoology). 
Calcutta. 
Tue Indian Museum at Caleutta has now followed the example 
of most of our Colonial Museums and those of other countries by 
publishing its own Journal. Parts 1.-ii. of vol. i. have now 
reached us, and from the contents these ‘ Records’ will be recog- 
nized as of considerable zoological importance. There is also 
an accompanying publication of a larger size, ‘ Memoirs of the 
Indian Museum,’ the first part of which contains ‘‘ An Account 
of the Rats of Calcutta,” by Dr. W. C. Hossack, which is beauti- 
fully illustrated by coloured and other plates. 
These publications reflect the energy of Dr. Annandale, the 
Superintendent of the Zoological Section of the Calcutta Museum. 
