1884] Recent Literature. 167 
editors of the present work have engaged nearly forty collabora- 
tors. The difficulty will be to secure sufficient unity in the mode 
of treatment by so many authors; but we do not see any marked 
signs of this in the parts before us. This is a subscription work, 
and most publishers of such works for popular sale are timid and 
even silly about admitting anything that looks like evolution, but 
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present work is as it should be, in accord and in fact based on 
= aes We notice in the parts before us that the Proto- 
DSK ahaa by Mr. Romyn Hitchcock, the Infusoria by Dr. 
Sor E x ea the Crustacea by Mr. J. S. Kingsley and Profes- 
Wright - Dirge, the mammals by Dr. Coues, Professor R. R. 
and Professor T. Gill. The names of the other contribu- 
