54 The American Naturalist. [January, 
little book resembles the well-known Baedeker’s Handbooks.—CHARLES 
E. BESSEY. 
Lubbock’s Senses of Animals.*—One of the recent additions 
to the International Science Series is by the genial English naturalist, 
Sir J. Lubbock, and contains the results of his observations on the 
senses and intelligence of animals, especially of insects. Having 
found it necessary to consult many memoirs in various languages, in 
order to well understand the mechanism of the senses, and the organs 
by which sensations are transmitted, the author has in this work 
brought together the notes thus made, and given a list of the prin- 
cipal memoirs consulted. (Commencing with man, Sir J. Lubbock 
works his way downward through the lower animals, dwelling chiefly 
upon the class which has especially engaged his attention. Chapter I. 
deals with touch; taste and smell have each a chapter devoted to 
them; hearing occupies two chapters, and sight takes up the chapters 
VI. and VII. The eighth chapter is on problematical sense-organs, 
such as the muciferous canal of fishes, light organs, etc. The range 
of vision and hearing, and the existence of unknown senses, are also 
here discussed. It is known that among ants, bees, and wasps, some 
at least hear sounds which we cannot, and that they can perceive the 
ultra-violet rays to us invisible. Chapter’ IX. refers to bees and colors, 
treating of the author’s experiments, and answering Dr. Miiller’s ob- 
jections. The limits of vision in animals form the subject of the 
tenth chapter, while the eleventh treats of recognition among ants, 
and the twelfth of the habits of solitary wasps and bees. Chapter 
XIII. deals with the supposed sense of direction, the possession of 
which he is inclined to deny to bees. In his chapter upon the sense 
of hearing, he does not argue that the vertebrate semicircular canals 
are the seat of such asense. The last chapter details, among other 
things, the author’s celebrated experiments with word-cards upon his 
dog Van. 
RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS. 
Archivos do Museo —— do Rio de Janeiro, Vol. VII. From the Museum, 
BARROIS, CHARLES.—Faune du Calcaire D'Erbray. Extrait des Mémoires de la, 
Société Géologique du Nord, tone III., Avril, 1889. From a ces 
Baur, G.—Osteologische Notizen iiber Reptilien. Separatabdruck aus dem Zo- 
ehipischon Anzeiger, 1888, From the author. 
3 On the Senses, Instincts, and Intelligence of Animals, by Sir J. Lubbock, M.P’ 
F.R.S., etc. International Scientific Series LXV. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London» 
1888 
