1887] Recent Literature. S55 
upon that adopted by Professor Flower, but is modified to make 
it include the host of extinct forms here dealt with. In his pref- 
ace the author avows himself one of that school of sig he 
o use generic terms ina wider sense. The toniet and 
Tebuan beds are classed as Pliocene, i Eppelsheim beds a as 
dogs as a subiamily Cases of the Urside. The Frobasiiaes 
include three species of Dinotherium, twenty-six of Mastodon, 
and eighteen of Elephas. 
Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 
1883.—This report contains twelve hundred pages of ee 
matter and numerous illustrations, among whic! 
pag mentioned the eleven plates of Cetaceans, which ar 
rue’s suggestions to praragan -keepers and others relative 
to oles examples these animals. The report proper 
occupies only ninety-five pie including a statement of the re- 
sults of the inquiry into the history and statistics of food-fishes 
and an account of the progress of pisciculture. bs the a iad 
dices we find papers by Stone, Tanner, Smiley, Duff, Day, 
Ljungman, Lundberg, Verrill, Bush, Eisen, Shufeldt, Seal, Ma- 
ports mS oa illustra 
Gustav Eisen’s “ Oligochaetological Researches” and Dr. Shu- 
feldt’s = Ji weii of Amia eao are valuable special papers. 
Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci- 
ence, Vol. II.—This volume contains fifteen biographies of de- 
ceased members of the National Academy, ara the well- 
known names of Louis Agassiz, Lagi Wyman, J. P. Kirtland, 
J. L. Le Conte, A. Guyot, and J. W. Draper. 
RECENT BOOKS AND. PAMPHLETS: 
Maiden, F. H.—Report of the Australian Museum. N. S. W., 1885. 
garea —Ueber die Abstammung n Hausthiere, me evoridertt Beriicksicht- 
i Hu March, 1885. ri einen in die 
Pclangenichank geziichteten eke beinige en face. SB. - Nat, Freunde. 
Berlin, 1886. Both from the aut 
