BOOKS RECEIVED. 765 
A RECORD of works on geology, mineralogy and paleontology, 
British and foreign, will be issued by the middle of 1875, to con- 
tain short abstracts or notices of papers, books and maps pub- 
lished in 1874. The first volume will contain from 200 to 300 
pages. Price 10s., 6d. Subscriptions should be sent to the Edi- 
tor of “Nature,” care of Macmillan & Co., New York. 
A Society of Natural Science has lately been organized in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., with the following officers, — President, C. 
Van Brunt; Vice President, W. G. Stevenson, M. D. ; Secretary, 
W. R. Gerard; Treasurer, C. F. Arnold. 
Dr: J. H. Stack, of New Jersey, well known as a naturalist and 
pisciculturist, died August 24. He wrote on Egyptian antiquities 
and the mammals. 
Francis WALKER, the entomologist, died Oct. 5. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
gr n maa. pp. 249-320. 8vo. 
hanges of Level besa pag ony By N. S. Shaler. Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. 
Vol. ii. Part iii. apie Fg pov a 4to. 
Philosophical hg agg of Foe mover Society on 1872. Vol. 162. Part ii. pp. 24l- 
501 1873. Vol. Parts i: - ii. pp. 662. I Airrearane . 4to. 
Proceedin gs of ie my -1873 and 1574. Nos, 138-150, With cuts, 8v0. 
List tof Felt lows of the wat  Boctety for 1872 snd 1873. aat 32 and 32. 4to. 
Jenaische Zeitsc seon od aturwissenschaft. Jena, 1874. New Series. Vol. i. No. i. With 
niustrations, pp. 17 i 
SA aden Dijon, 1871. 2e Serie. Tome xvi, 1870, pp. 367. 8vo. 3e 
udi Dijon. 
gene Tone t ler, 1871, iS, 112. 
Bulletin sm en AS la Societe @Acclimatation, Paris, 3e Serie, Tome 1,5, 6,- Mal, Juin, 1874, 
wonersigt o over det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs. Copenhagen, 1873, No. 3, 1874, Pe: 
0. v S a 
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. Berlin,1874. Tafell. Seite 1-8, 241-448. With illustration, oo 
ndlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. Basel, 1874. Sechster theil. Erstes Heft, pets 
N setae pp. 215, 8vo. 
a As. apee of the ae Geological Society, 1874, Vol.ii. Part ili. With plates. pp. 
vO. 
Report of Progress for 1872. ee Gasolom Survey of Canada. Dawson Brothers, Publisher, 
Montreal, 1873. With plates. p. 300, 
Zeitschrift fur r Gesammtien Natu rwissenschaften. Berlin, 8874. Bd, ix. With cuts. pp. 568. 
The Journal of the Linnean we London, Zoology. Nos. 41-57. Botany, Vol. xii, and 
Nos, ected Svo. 
seek ti rg gigas apa rae a ng Yarrow. 1871,72, 73. Engineer Depart- - 
. 5, Arm ashington, D. C. 0. 
Calate of Pla nts. By S. Watson Bap. B.S Department of U. S. A., Washington, D.C. 
Phe" Ornament aget Useful Plants of Maine. By F. Lamson Scribner, Augusta, 1875, With 
tes. pp. x ; 
; Pr is Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. Albany, 1874, 
P adera epg gE f Saloca By J. A. Lintner, 1874. pp.2. Svo. 
O, . ; 
pôt On the occurrence o eor Tupaia Elliote, Waterhouse, in the Satpeura Wills, Central Provinces. 
"on an añcieni che cuban Stone found in the Satpura Hills. By V. Ball. Mlustrated. pp. 3. 
T. e nh Gi satin see pedo irk No, Bay D 80. ggg <i 
. 0. A 
Me N el ae cpeription of ew Species, sy aa oe @ 
Remarks on North Noctuidx 
_ September, 1874. pp- 10, Svo. Ecoeived Nov. OS ise 
