436 Recent Literature. [June, 
associated with them, and especially to the untiring activity of the 
author of this check-list 
In his “ Zoology for Students and general Readers,” by A. S. 
Packard, Jr., the nervous system and pedal ganglia and otocysts 
of Mya arenaria are figured from drawings prepared by Dr. W. 
K. Brooks. Prof. Packard also gives a general account of the 
anatomy of Lunatia heros, and of Loligo pealit. 
A new form of Helix from California, apparently related to /7. 
morimonum, is described by Mr. R. E. C. Stearns in the Annals of 
the New York Academy of Sciences, 1, No. 10, Nov., 1879, arti- 
cle xxvi, with a figure, under the name of H. var. circumcarinata 
Stearns, 
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RECENT LITERATURE. 
Smitu’s BraziL; THe Amazons AND THE Coast.—Of the 
many delightful books which have been written on Brazil, this 
is, to our taste, the most (ntete. Its author was, for a 
time, a member of the Geological Survey of Brazil under OR 
Hartt, and brings to the task of writing a popular book, many 
qualifications. His work displays scientific knowledge, acute 
powers of observation, an insight into the social and business 
interests of the inhabitants, and an enthusiastic love of nature. 
His style is vivacious, and we are carried with ready facility from 
while a narrative of travel appears here and there as we pass 
from one scene to another. The panel of subjects treated will 
interest a large circle of readers. As Mr. Smith is an accom- 
plished entomologist his oe ee to this department have an 
especial value. statements of the results of a day’s collect- 
ing of beetles are jepueable ye December 17th he took 394 
specimens of 275 species in about eight hours. On January 29th, 
471 specimens of 268 species.. The famine of Ceara, 1877-78, of 
which Mr. Smith was an eye-witness, is graphically described. 
The industrial statistics will interest American merchant espe- 
cially. The execution of the work, including the numerous wood 
engravings, is admirable. 
TURAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION.’ —/In these lectures Dr. Gray 
nahe the theological students of Yale with his reasons for 
Bene. a belief in the evolution of animal and vegetable spe- 
t Bra The Amazons and the Coast. By Herbert H. Smith. Dine by 
sketches fe Champney, etc. New York, Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1579- OY» 
pp. 644. se 
2 Two lectures oo to the Theological School of Yale College. Chas. 
ner’s Sons. 8vo 
