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such topics as the collector’s outfit, the vasculum, portfolio, map, 
lens, trowel, note-book and pocket-knife. The instructions are 
clearly given in an attractive manner. Inthe second chapter, 
under Fieldwork, and How to use the Portfolio, very many excel- 
lent hints are given. The section on Cactace is especially valu- 
able. Mosses (from notes by T. P. James), Lichens and Alge 
are treated of in the succeeding sections. Professor Peck’s sec- 
rved. It is, however, entirely optional with later naturalists 
whether they do this or not, and as in this case it was not done 
until several other good names had been given, there is no neces- 
Sity for adopting this inelegant sobriquet. 
Norra American Mesozoic AND Canozorc GEoLocy AND PAL- 
ONTOLOGY, by S. A. Miller.2—This is an octavo volume of 338 
Pages, which contains, in Mr. Miller’s language, “an abridged 
of Tools, Tackle and Implements. By | : 
. s. Bound. Published by Robert Clark & Co. Cincinnati, 1851, 
i ak - hk American Mesowic and Canowic Geology and Paleontology. By S. A. 
(Gea Published by the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 8vo, pp. Te. 
thet, 218i) Ciena, WIL I PN 
