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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
INTRODUCTION TO GeneraL Brorocy.*—Though the plan of this 
little manual is good, being identical with the arrangement of the 
examination questions in the Science and Art Department of In- 
struction at South Kensington, we cannot speak favorably of its 
execution, or advise the use of the book in this country, unless 
carefully revised. A want of special knowledge of the subject, 
and the usually execrable woodcuts, wherever not copied from 
other works, detract seriously from the value of the book. 
Pusuications or WueEetrr’s Surver.t— Besides the maps is- 
sued by this survey we now have a Catalogue of Plants collected 
in the years 1871, 1872 and 1873, with descriptions of a few new 
species, by Mr. Sereno Watson and Dr. J. T. Rothrock, botanist, 
aided by Messrs. Hoopes, Olney, Vasey, Eaton, James and Austin. 
Thg report upon the birds collected in Utah and Nevada during 
the same years, by Dr. Yarrow, abounds in notes on habits and 
geographical distribution. 
Tie GEOLOGICAL Survey or Inp1ana. {—While this last year's 
report of the Survey is mainly on economic geology, as it should 
be, it contains some archeological and palzontological notes of 
interest. 
BOTANY. 
Yucca FILAMENTOSA. —Dr. Engelmann’s interesting observa- 
tions on the genus Yucea, and Prof. C. V. Riley’s discoveries in ae 
relation to the yucca moth, § have turned attention generally to x 
this family of plants. The Yucca filamentosa is the species most 
commonly cultivated in the central United States. It is found 
* An Introdnetion to the Study of General Biology, designed for the use of School 
asses. By Thomas U. MacGinley. With 124 illustrations. Putnam’s 
pp. 199. Price 
Elementary Science Series. New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 12mo. 5 
cts. 
¢Report upon Ornithological Specimens collected in the years 1871, 1872 and 1873. 
By Dr. H.C. Yarrow. Washington, D- C. sro. 1874. pp. M8. Catalogue of lants 
collected in the years 1871, 1872 and 1873, with descriptions of New Species. Wheeler’s 
Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. 
v4. 8 
DC. pp- 
ifth Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana, made during the year 
i is b John Collett, Prof. W. W. Bor- 
. Indianapolis, 1874. Svo. pp. 494 With plates and maps. 
NATURALIST, vol. 7. 
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den and Dr. G. M. Levette 
§ Trans. St. Louis Acad. Science, 1873, an AMERICAN 
