NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 437 
The bulk of the volume is of a more technical nature, and 
will well repay the study of the biologist and evolutionary 
scholar. It is excellently illustrated, has a good index, and 
we are glad to read that the ‘‘ Trustees of the Carnegie 
Bequest’ have made possible the publication of the work in its 
present form. 
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The Marine Mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University 
of Edinburgh. By Sir Wm. Turner, K.C.B., D.C.L., &c. 
Macmillan & Co., Lim. 
We read in the Preface to this well-illustrated and descriptive 
Catalogue that, so far as these mammals are considered, the 
Anatomical Museum of Edinburgh, in the number and variety of 
species, ranks after the British Museum and the Museum of the 
Royal College of Surgeons, and is believed to be third in the 
United Kingdom in the number of specimens of Cetacea and 
Pinnipedia which it contains. But in species of Cetacea fre- 
quenting Scottish waters it is larger and more complete than 
either of those two important collections. 
The Introduction contains a full account of the conditions 
under which bones of prehistoric Whales have been found on 
the east and west coasts of Scotland, some of these remains 
belonging to Whales of great dimensions. In the classification 
Sir Wm. Flower’s Catalogue of the Specimens in the British 
Museum, 1885, has been taken as the Guide, with the principal 
exception of cataloguing all the Baleen Whales in a single 
family—-Balenide, which are by Sir Wm. Turner divided 
into two families, Balenide and Balenopteride. The illus- 
trations are full and ample, and have been again made 
possible by a financial grant of the Executive Committee of the 
Carnegie Trust. 
This book is more than an ordinary Museum Catalogue, and 
is of great anatomical value. 
