1894.] Recent Literature. 335 
lished many years ago by Swainson, which have never been excelled 
for expressiveness. 
The Dictionary is one which every Naturalist should have at hand, 
as furnishing in convenient form full information in every department 
of the subject. The work is critical, and the conclusions of 
its authors carry with them the weight of their well known mastery of 
the subject. The treatment of questions of nomenclature is especiall 
to be commended. As they insist on correct orthography, and discard 
names published without descriptions, or which are flagrantly incorrect 
in meaning, they furnish a*much needed corrective to tendencies to 
pursue an opposite course, which are just now too prevalent in this 
country. We give some examples of the cuts which illustrate the two 
volumes already issued. 
Fic. 1. Odontopteryx toliapicus Owen. English Eocene. 
Eleventh Report of the State Mineralogist of California.‘ 
—This report, as originally submitted to the Board of Examiners, con- 
sisted of over 2,000 pages of manuscript, much of which, while valu- 
able in itself, would be of no practical use to the miners in whose inter- 
est the volume was prepared. It was accordingly put in the hands of 
Mr. Charles G. Yale for revision. By judicious omission and conden- 
* Eleventh Report of the State Mineralogist, Wm. Ireland, Jr. (First Biennial) 
Wo years ending September 15, I892. Sacramento, 189: 
