554 Recent Literature. [June 
The plates, of which there are sixty-nine, consist of the wood- 
cuts of Cooke’s “ Handbook” arranged upon the pages. Not 
more than a dozen or so of these plates have any connection with 
the text, and they are consequently of no sort of value. Evi- 
dently the publisher had these on hand, and put them in to fill 
up. They add thickness to the book, and doubtless add also to 
its cost.— Charles E. Bessey. 
echinoderms, ccelenterates, and sponges. This arrang tseems 
to have been carefully considered in the adaptation of the work to 
the needs of those who will most use it,—students in academies 
and high schools,—and here this has a marked advantage over 
work is really a valuable one for beginners in zoology, and 
deserves the success with which we understand it is meeting. 
Lydekker’s Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia.2—Mr, Richard 
Lydekker, formerly of India, has recently followed up his ex- 
tensive series of papers upon the fossil fauna of Hindustan by a. 
_ _.* An Elementary Course in Practical Zoology. By Buel P. Colton. Boston, 
Re Heath & Co, 1886. aes es c 
* Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum (Natural History). 
| Lydekker, B.A.F.G.S., etc. London, Svo. 1885. Printed by 
us. 
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