1883.] Recent Literature. 395 
The arrangement is comprehensive and convenient. It gives the 
titles and brief abstracts of articles and works under the following 
heads: 1. History of zodlogy and comparative anatomy, biogra- 
phies, necrology for 1881; 2. Literature of zodlogy and compara- 
tive anatomy; 3. General principles—nomenclature; 4. Hand- 
books, atlases and other literary aids ; 5. Meansof research and 
observation, including microscopy and miscroscopic apparatus, sec- 
tion-cutting, staining, etc., and histological work; zodlogical gar- 
dens, aquaria, zodlogical stations, dredging, etc.; 6. Zoogeography, 
faune ; 7. Theories of descent and phylogenies ; 8. Biology in gen- 
eral; 9. General ontogeny, egg-fertilization, sexes; 10, Specia 
groups of animals, beginning with protozoa and ending with verte- 
Comparing the British Zodlogical Record with the present one, 
we find, under Spongia, that the former gives the titles of eighteen 
works and papers, while the German Record has forty-two. The 
British Record does not mention the writings of M. Braun, R. 
O. Cunningham, J. W. Dawson, W. Dybowski, A. Giard, C. W. 
Gümpel, T. Mayer, C. Mereschkowsky, P. Pavesi, W. J. Sollas, 
Wallich, E. P. Wright, as well as some by Sollas, Carter and Wal- 
cott. Hence,as regards the literature of Sponges the student would 
= the English Record imperfect. The English Record, in ae 
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under Brachiopoda only two papers, one by Dall and the other by 
ehlert are enumerated, while the German list of titles numbers 
twenty-three. Under Echinodermata the German Record gives 
derms are mentioned in one which are not referred to in the other 
So as to render them more perfect; meanwhile the student needs 
both works, : 
Revisep Epition or Leconre’s Grotocy.—The valuable fea- 
tures of this work, and which have given it wide usefulness and 
popularity, is the simple, compact and agreeable style in which 
the subject is presented: For the general reader also the book is 
well proportioned, as the general bearings of the subject upon bio- 
logical problems, the antiquity of man, the evolution of our conti- 
nent and of the assemblages of life which have successively peopled 
> Surface are clearly indicated. It is designed and adapted rather 
for the beginner or general reader than for the field geologist or 
advanced student. . 
‘Elements o Gee ; -l or the General Reader. 
By Joseph Le Conte, “Revised peat ntact yet ai eo York, D. Appleton & 
vo, : 
