560 REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
into the past, do we find reason for believing the straits were then 
as narrow as now? May not an ocean have rolled between, or ice 
blocked up every portion of the way? In the second part, the 
researches of Max Miiller, Tylor and others as to myths and wor- 
ship in its various forms, are very clearly outlined, and, we doubt 
not, will be read with pleasure by all who purchase this little vol- 
ume. We hope, with the author, that the subjects treated of may 
rouse a curiosity which will lead to the careful study of the works 
of Tylor, Lubbock, Nilsson, Waitz and other ethnologists, from 
which Mr. Clodd has so largely drawn in his brief account of Man 
in Early Times.—C. C. A. 
CATALOGUE OF THE PHÆNOGAMOUS AND VASCULAR CRYPTOGA- 
mous PLANTS OF CANADA AND THE NORTHEASTERN PORTION OF ' 
THE Unirep Srares.* —This is somewhat on the plan of the 
British exchange Catalogue which was in use twenty years ago. 
It is printed in eight pages of large quarto size, each of six 
columns. The portion of the United States included is co-exten- 
sive with that of ‘‘Gray’s Manual” with the addition of a range 
of states on the western side of the Mississippi ; namely, Missouri, 
Iowa and Minnesota. 
An ingenious arrangement indicates the geographical range of 
each species, 7. e., its occurrence in either or all of three districts, 
viz.: 1, Canada; 2, Virginia; 3, Illinois; respectively represent- 
ing the northern, the southern and the western distribution. The 
Catalogue extends to varieties, is very carefully prepared, evidently 
with much pains, and is admirably adapted for its purpose ; that of 
facilitating exchanges among botanists. Mr. Curtiss, as one of our 
most active botanists, has doubtless felt the need of what he has 
now supplied. 
BULLETIN or THE BUFFALO SOCIETY or NATURAL ScieNcEs.t— 
A new life is pervading this society, perhaps due to the removal 
of Mr. Grote, the well known lepidopterist, from the south to Buf- 
falo. The first number of its Bulletin contains the four following 
valuable papers on moths by Mr. Grote, which will greatly in- 
terest lepidopterists. ‘Description of New North American 
Gime! 
* Catalogue of the Phanogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Canada and 
the Northeastern Portion of the United States. By A. H. Curtiss, Liberty, Bedfo 
Co., Virginia. 
Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Vol. i, Nos. 1 and 2, Buffalo, 
N. Y., 1873. With 3 lithographic plates. 8vo. pp. 128, $2.50 a vol. 
