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Seabee cay under each country. The index is subdivided into 
ex of towns, of titles and of minor subjects, such as ona 
a. anthropology, botany, entomology, geology, &c., 
considerable amount of bibliographical information is given ai 
the different titles, of much importance in treating of $ synonom 
The work will hereafter stand on the shelves of the naturalist’s 
library side by side with Agassiz’s Bibliographia Zodlogie, Engel- 
mann’s Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis, Carus and Engelmann’s 
Bibliotheca Zodlogica, Hagen’s Bibliotheca Entomologica, sup- 
plementing these valuable works. It is gratifying to notice the 
appearance of such works as this and Coues’ Bibliography of 
Ornithology i in this country, as evincing the riehness of American 
libraries in scientific works, and the number of those who use 
them with discernment. 
We have no criticisms to make on the volume, as the arrange- 
ment seems to be all that could be desiréd. Doubtless, errors 
will be found upon using it, and the compiler invites criticism 
and the communication of errors, that they may be corrected 
hereafter. This is the first instance, so far as we now recollect, 
of the issue of such important and generally useful works by any 
library, and due credit should be given to the university whose 
librarian had the public spirit and enterprise to undertake the 
publication of such an expensive work without a special fund for 
such purposes. 
ZITTEL’S HANDBOOK OF PALÆoNTOLOGY.!— This will, when com- 
pleted, be without doubt a most useful compendium ‘of the sub- 
ject, though to be authoritative a work on palzontology should, 
we think, be written by one who has been more active asa zoologist 
than the talented author. The first part begins with a general 
history of the rise of palzontology and a statement of the sub- 
ject in general, and the second “ieferung carries us as far as th 
Echinodermata, 2. e., through the Ccelenterata, the latter including 
the sponges. 
We notice that in the first Zeferung, which was published in 
1876, Bathybius is admitted to be an organism, as is the Eozoon. 
In the second volume, of which the first “eferung has appeared, 
Prof Schimper treats of the fossil plants, beginning with the 
Diatoms and nearly completing the account of the ferns. sae 
_ authors treat their respective kingdoms alike, z. e., in an alm 
purely systematic way, diagnoses of the classes, orders rat 
genera being given, often with descriptions of the species. 
The illustrations are numerous and usually excellent, but often 
on too small a scale, a fault of Pagenstecker's work, and of 
many German books, the woodcuts of Gegenbaur’s Elements of 
\Handbuch der Paleontologie. Unter — PIRE von. W. PH. seen a 
rausgegeben von Karl A. Zittel. Band 1. Lief. 1,7. Band im. Lief. Miin 
chen, 1876-79. : 
