
150 REVIEWS. 
of Kingfishers known (about one Ups will us hec gm and figured, 
and Dr. Murie will furnish a chap on the a my and osteology of 
ke family. Only two hundred Prost of the dk s be printed: three 
parts are already issued. The price to subscribers will be about $5.00 a 
part, delivered in this country. The work is worthy of support by the orni- 
thologists of this country, and we should be happy to take subscriptions 
for the author. The price will be advanced one-fifth after the work is out. 
BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX IwsTITUTE.*— This new publication of the 
Institute is one of the results of the changes that have taken place owing 
o the formation of the Peabody Academy of Science, and the transfer 
of the Scientific Museum of the Institute to the charge of the Academy. 
In great part the ** Bulletin" will take the place of the ** Proceedings an 
Communications" of the Institute, which will be discontinued pui. the 

ead > to the month of January, 1869, at which date the ** Bulletin" Me 
ences. 
The « Bulletin" will contain an account of the proceedings at each meet- 
ing of the Institute, and the lists of donations, etc., made to the library 
of the Institute, and to the Museums of both the Institute and the Acad- 
emy. It will also contain short lists of the deficiencies in the library of 
the Institute, and of duplicate books offered for sale and exchange, but 

longer historical papers will be printed as heretofore in the *« Historical 
Collections," and the purely scientific communications will be offered to the 
cademy for publication in its Memoirs. It will thus be emat that the 
* Bulletin” will take the place of the “Proceedings,” w. e Memoi 
of the — will correspond to the former ** ovnentadeadions ” of the 
Institu 
The pis number of the ** Bulletin"? contains, among other a 

ocean, which, as the coast rose, had been so lifted as to appe 
which contained guano on its summit at the time of its uprising. He also 
alluded to the fact that the droppings of birds would be quite inadequate — 
to supply the vast amount of t guano found, and that such droppings were 
yerepe distinct from 1 
The first and second snivicis. of the ** Bulletin" contain obituary notices 
of our "em associate, Horace Mann, and of the distinguished ornitholo- 
gist, John Cassin. 
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