550 Recent Literature. [August, 
ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY FOR 1877.1—While 
this year’s volume is less bulky than its predecessors, it has lost 
none of its distinctive features as a useful summary of the pro- 
gress of science in all departments, with especial ia Aea to the 
wants of the specialist who must be informed as to progress 
in general science, as well as of the general reader who needs 
some handy, condensed year-book of this sort, to supplement the 
encyclopædia and other books of reference in his library. The 
work seems to be admirably classified and condensed and in all 
respects as useful and rather more compact, and cheaper than the» 
previous ones. 
Coox’s MANUAL OF THE APIARY.2—This manual of bee-keeping 
is in point of style not equal to Langstroth’s or Quimby’s, but still 
is excellent in its matter and will prove a reliable and practical 
guide to the beginner. The illustrations are in most cases good, 
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theories. The index is copious and convenient. 
THORELL’s STUDIES ON THE SPIDERS oF Mataysia3—The first 
part of this series of descriptions of the Arachnid fauna of Malaysia, 
and of the Celebes especially, forms a volume of 294 pages, with 
an index, and must comprise when completed a quite full descrip- 
tion of the spiders of Malaysia and Pupuana. The descriptions 
are detailed and in Latin. 
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RecenT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.—Brehm’s Thierleben. Band x. Heft 7-10. 
Leipzig, 1878. New York: B. Westermann & Co. 8vo, 40 cents a Heft. 
Die europäischen Encyrtiden. Von Gustav Mayer. Wien, 1878. 8vo, pp. 104. | 
Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-Fauna von sniege II. Von N. B. Möschler. Wien, 4 
1878. 8vo, pp. 72, 3 plates. From the a A 
Sonen ogical Te No. ons RA Lintner. From the Thirtieth 4 
Annual Report on ba New Yor k State kama of Nat. Eat, for the year 1876. 
Printed i in advance o gen Sean bany, June, 1875. 8vo, pp. 142. 
Studi sui Ragui M Papuani tsai T. Thorell. I. Genova Tipografia del 
R. Instituto mie Bettis r577. 8vo, pp. 297. From the author 
American Club List Sportsman’s aps hi ry. By Charles Hallock. New 
York: Facet and presi Pobi ing Company. 1878. 8vo, pp. 90. 
Two interesting American Diptera, Gidas A and Ep vibates apr Sack- 
enii. By Edward Burgess. From the Proceedings of the Boston Socie halo 
vin ‘History Vol. xix. we bry 27. 1878. Svo, pin 2, a a plate. yia 
gra on the Insecta (including Arachnida) collected by Captain Feilden and Mr. 
- Hart between the parallels of 78° and 83° north latitude, during the Recent Arctic 
1 Annual Record of oe aie and PRS for 1877. Edited by SPENCER F.B D, 
with the assistance of Eminent Men of Science. New York, Harper & iri 
í 1878. 12mo, pp. 4 
_ "Manual of the Apiary. B A. J. Cook, Professor of Entomology in the Michigan 
, State icultural College. beroni edition, hema S gee gee phoney and 
_ beautifully illustrated ‘Chichgos Phen, Oc Newman & Son o, pp. 286. — 
-3 Studi sui Ragni Malesi sian Per T. cas I. ERE ae 8vo, 
PP: 294, "e index. ; 
