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. Jackson’s VEGETABLE TECHNOLOGY.'—The purpose of this work 
is to supply, in compact form, references to the many botanical pa- 
pers and books of economic interest, and which, in many cases, were 
so published as not to be catalogued in the ordinary book lists. 
As stated in the title page, the book is founded upon a catalogue 
of works on applied botany, prepared by Mr, G. J. Symons. To 
that list large additions and many corrections and modifications 
were made. Books or papers of purely local value were stricken 
out, as were also those on silk and cochineal culture, as well as 
those relating to the vine, the latter “ simply on the ground of its 
enormous extent.” 
The plan of the work is to give first an author’s catalogue of 
books, that is, the books, papers, etc., are arranged alphabetically 
by the author’s names. The place and date of publication are 
given in each case, along with the full title. A catalogue of serials, 
and one of anonymous publications follow, the first notable for its 
shortness. No serial is entered for the United States. 
The index of subjects fills about one hundred pages, and is suf- 
ficiently classified as to enable one to readily find any book 
or paper in the author's catalogue. The volume cannot fail to be 
. Of great use to librarians and others who wish to know the extent 
- ~ literature of the department of botany of which it treats — 
. D. 
RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.—Ext. Note sur l’Osteologie des Mosasauride. 
Par M. L. Dollo. Ext. du Bulletin du Musée Royal, d'Histoire Naturelle de Bel- 
gique. Tomes, 1882. From the author. 
Synopsis of the Classification of the Animal Kingdom, by H. Alleyne Nicholson. 
Messrs. Blackwood & Co., Edinburgh and London, 1882. From the author. 
__ The Quarterly Journal of the Boston Zoological Society. Vol. 1. October, 1882. 
No. 4. From the society. 
` Prospectus of the second edition of the American Palzozoic Fossils. By S. A. 
Miller. From the author. 
The Geological Record for 1878, with supplements for 1874-1877. Edited by 
_ Wm. Whitaker and W. H. Dalton. London, 1882. From the editors. 
Sitzungberichte der Gesellschaft zur Beforderung der gesammten Naturwissen- 
schaften zu Marburg 881. From the society. 
_ Etude Carcinologique sur les genres Pemphix, Glyphea et Araeosternus. Par 
T. C. Winkler. Ext. des Archives du Musée Teyler. T. 1, sér. 11, par. 11. Haar- 
t, 1882. From the author. i 
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Central Park, New York. 
Vol. t, No. 3. On the Fauna of the Lower Carboniferous Limestone of Spergen 
Hill, Indiana, with a revision of the descriptions of its fossils hitherto published, 
and illustrations of the species from the original type series. By R. P. Whitfield. 
From the author. 
_Tryon’s Manual of Conchology. Von W. Kobelt. Diagnosen neuer Arten 
(Helices). By the same, From the author. 
_ Notes on some of the Tertiary Neuroptera of Florissant, Col., and Green river, 
Wyoming Territory. By S. H. Scudder. From the author. 
! Vegetable Technology. A contribution towards a bibliography of economic 
sotany, with a comprehensive subject-index. By Benjamin Daydon Jackson, Secre- 
taryof the Linnean Society. Founded upon the collections of George James Symons, 
F. R. S. London: Published for the Index Society. Dulan & Co. 1882. 
