160 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
while the bibliography, which certainly does not include every- 
thing, is a very acceptable compilation. 
Evolution in the Past. By Henry R. Knipz, F.L.S. Herbert 
& Daniel. 
Tats volume constitutes a more or less popular introduction 
to paleontology, and designed by an ‘‘ endeavour to trace the 
steps by which life, once initiated on earth, attained its present 
development.”” Commencing with the nebular hypothesis, a real 
start is made with the Paleozoic Age and the beginning of the 
Cambrian Period. The fauna and flora of each age and period is 
enumerated with care and so far as fossil records will allow, while 
a great feature of the work is the number of beautiful plates drawn 
by Miss Alice B. Woodward, more or less conjectural of the ap- 
pearance of organic life in those eras. We say conjectural ; the 
frontispiece and the plates depicting Homo mousteriensis and 
Pithecanthropus being our justification for that term. The book 
supplies a want, if the text is studied with discrimination by 
those readers to whom the subject is not too familiar, while it 
must be remembered that the lovely illustrations are not photo- 
graphed from nature in bygone days. The book is speculative 
but necessarily so, and the information is exceedingly well 
garnered from most of the best and reliable sources. 
Miss Bate reports in the ‘Geological Magazine’ for January 
last (p. 4) that she has discovered a new fossil Mouse in Crete, 
which she has name Mus catreus. It was evidently of large size. 
The find occurred in a cave deposit near Sphinari in West Crete, 
and consists of a right mandibular ramus embedded in a matrix. 
The evidence has been strengthened by the discovery of an 
innominate bone some distance from the first find. 
From dental measurements as well as from the position of 
the iliae crest it is shown that Mus catreus is allied to Cricetomys. 
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