634 Recent Literature. [June, 
inadequate way of our few described North American species, 
The geographical and bathymetrical distribution are then given, 
‘but the work is strongest, as one would naturally expect, in the 
anatomy and histology of these creatures. The nervous and 
muscular systems are elaborately discussed, and especially the 
biology of these Crustacea, which is treated of under the heads 
of habitats, symbiosis, mimicry and sympathetic coloring, play of 
chromatophores, sensibility to external influence, duration of life, 
molting, walking and swimming habits; parasites, etc., and phy- 
logeny. The illustrations are numerous and excellent. 
THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD FoR 1878.\—It is a pity that the ap- 
pearance of a work of this description should be delayed nearly 
four years beyond the natural time of publication. The editor 
apologizes for the great delay in the appearance of the volume by 
non-arrival of the MS. of the sections America and Arctic Re- 
gions from the sub-editor of those sections. Mr. E. Wethered has 
undertaken, however, in future to edit the section America. Still 
the volume is a little larger than its predecessors, containing over 
3530 entries. The list of contributors to the present volume is a 
long one, numbering forty-five, and the list of journals and works 
referred to fills twenty closely printed pages. : 
After giving the titles, sometimes with a very brief synopsis of 
works and articles on the stratigraphical and descriptive geology 
of different countries, those of articles on physical geology, ap- 
plied and economic geology, petrology, mineralogy, palzeontology, 
maps and sections, and miscellaneous and general geology follow 
in the order given. There is also a supplement for the p 
from 1874 to 1877 at the end of each of the above divisions. 
f course to the working geologist such a record as this must 
prove invaluable. The editors promise that hereafter the yearly 
issues will be more prompt and complete. 
Grotosicar Survey oF Oxn1o2—The fourth volume of ye 
vey contains reports upon the mammalia of the State, by A. M- 
Brayton; upon the birds, by J. M. Wheaton pe fi the re 
e 
and amphibia, by W. H. Smith, and upon t fishes, T robi- 
stated; but 
Jordan. The first report contains little that is new. | 
bility that the wild cat (Lynx rufus) is extinct in Ohio is 
of the wolf no more recent particulars are given than qù ge 
from Dr. Kirtland, who speaks of it as very rare in sess 
from Hildreth (Pioneer History of the Ohio Valley), who J 
that in 1848 it was nearly extinct. eo the 
Nothing is stated with regard to the abundance or “ache 
present occurrence within the State of the gray fox; the see 
1 The Geological Record for 1878. An account of works on gehen gal 
and palæontology, published during the year, wi 874 a: 
by WILLIAM WHITAKER an .H. Darton. Lond 
*Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio. Volume IV 
‘Columbus, O., 1882. 
