246 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Jahre 1861-1880 selbststindig erschienen sind etc., von Dr. O, 
TASCHENRERG. Lief 1, pp. 1 320; 2, pp. 321-640. 8vo, Leipzig, 
1886 (Wilhelm Engelmann). —The former “issue of the Biblio- 
theca Zoologica in 1861 under the editorship of Professor V. 
Carus contained a catalogue of zoological papers published during 
the years 1846 to 1860. “The present work, of which two parts 
are now completed, with Dr. O. Taschenberg as editor, is to 
continue and complete this great undertaking for the period from 
1861 to 1880. In style and method the present volume corres- 
ponds to those issued twenty-five years ago. The first part opens 
with the literature, a list of catalogues of books, and then a very 
minute and exhaustive enumeration of periodical publications of 
all kinds, with the number of pages, plates, etc., of each voluame— 
this portion of the work covers nearly 200 pages. Then follow 
the lists of zoological memoirs and articles arranged by the 
author’s name under a number of general heads, as: acclimatiza- 
tion, aquaria, museums, public and private collections, zoological 
gardens, laboratories and stations; the collection and _pres- 
ervation of objects of natural history and comparative anatomy ; 
the microscope, and so on. This statement of the contents of 
Part I will give some idea of the nature and scope of the work. 
Evidences of the tireless industry of the editor and his never 
relaxing effort to ensure accuracy and completeness are apparent 
on every page. The value of such a work can hardly be over- 
estimated at this time when the literature of the science is increas- 
ing so rapidly and the memoirs on the various topics are seattered 
through so wide a range of publications. It is difficult to see 
how any worker in the science can get along without it. The 
work when finished will fill twelve parts of about 320 pages each, 
forming four large volumes; the year 1888 is set as the time for 
its completion. 
IV. MiscELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. The American Naturalist.—Professor A. 8S. Packard, for 
twenty years one of the editors of the Naturalist, and a large 
contributor to its pages, has withdrawn from it, and hereafter it 
will be in charge of Professor E. D. Cope. 
2. The Swiss Cross, A Monthly Magazine of the Agassiz Asso- 
ciations: N. D. C. Hodges editor.—With January, the first num- 
ber of this new Journal of Popular Science appeared, in a broad 
octavo form of forty pages. It promises to be a valuable journal 
for the distribution of scientific knowledge, right opinions, and 
news, and to be adapted not only for the young readers of the 
Agassiz Associations but for all who are interested in having 
science in a popular form. The Journal is published in New 
York at 47 Lafayette Place, at $1.50 a year or 15 cents a number. 
