800 Recent Literature. [ November, 
the food crops, timber and fruit trees of England, and she has 
therefore issued a circular asking information concerning the hab- 
its, appearance and remedies against noxious insects. 
WHITE’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALÆonTOLOGY.!— These chapters 
contain descriptions of fossils discovered by the Hayden Survey, 
belonging to the Cretaceous, Tertiary, Laramie, Triassic, Carbon- 
iferous, Jurassic and again the Carboniferous formations of the 
Western Territories, in the order here named. The sudden, and 
as it has proved in many ways to be, disastrous abolishment by 
Congress of this great survey, has left no provision for the proper 
publication of the final results of the geological and palzonto- 
logical work.. But while the subjects treated of in these eight 
contributions have been thus presented in an unfinished state, 
opportunity has been taken to figure nearly every species 
described in the publications of the survey. Hence all that refers 
to the Tertiary, Cretaceous, Laramie and Jurassic invertebrates, 
as well as those of other formations, is rendered of much value in 
of the Laramie invertebrates and his general introductory re- 
marks. These afford materials for a monograph of the inverte- 
brate animals of this interesting formation which it is to be hoped 
he may have the opportunity, by fresh field work, to complete. - 
THE ABORIGINES OF VictortA2—This valuable publication was 
printed at the expense of the government of the province of Vic- 
toria in Southeastern Australia, and although it professes to 
sketch only the natives of the province aforesaid, we get from it 
a glance at all the Australian aborigines, their manners, customs, 
and racial peculiarities. The first volume enlarges upon the man- 
ner of sustenance, the education of children and the mental char- 
acter of these natives; then follow sketches of their encamp- 
ments and daily life, their diseases, their canoes, weapons and 
other implements. A chapter on pictorial representations drawn 
on pieces of bark will attract particular attention. 
e second volume is devoted to the reproduction of numerous 
vocabularies and other linguistic material of the Victoria and 
Tasmania dialects, all of which seem to show considerable affinity 
and are, in part, of a very harmonious, or at least vocalic charac- 
ter ; follows a series of appendices of ethnographic import: songs, 
music, sign-language, etc. Some of the songs are worded in the — 
harmonious dialect of Kotipna, at the junction of Goulbourn and 
Murray rivers. Among the myths, of which a large selection 18 
1 Contributions to Paleontology. Nos. 2-8. By C White, M.D. .S, 
logical Survey, F. V. Hayden in charge. (Extracted from the Twelfth Annual Re 
port of the Survey for the year 1878.) Washington, July, 1880. 8vo, pp 171) 4? 
Geo- 
plates. 
_ R. Brough Smith, the Aborigines of Victoria. Melbourne, 1878. Two ier oa 
in Lex.-octavo, profusely illustrated. 
