710 Recent Literature. [July, 
single describer (Professor Haeckel), the number is greater by 70 
in the present one. “These 1015 are divided as follows: 
malia, 29; Aves, 19; Reptilia and Batrachia, 34; Pisces, 23; 
Mollusca and Molluscoida, 67; Crustacea, 46; Arachnida, 64; 
Myriopoda, 5; Insecta, 598; Vermes, 32; Echinodermata, 30; 
Coelenterata, 27 ; Spongiida, 17; and Protozoa, 24. The unavoid- 
able delay referred to in the preface has necessitated the pubtica- 
tion of this long list of new names with scarcely any examination 
as regards prior occupation.” 
A number of changes have faken place in the staff of assistant 
editors, but we do not see that the quality of the reports has been 
lessened in value. d 
As regards Mammalia, the year 1882 did not differ materially 
from its predecessor in the large number of papers, anatomical, 
systematic and faunal, which appeared, though but few separate 
works of importance were published. : 
Of the ornithological publications of the year, special attention 
is called by the assistant editor, Mr. Sharpe, to the completion of 
Elliott’s “ Monograph of the Hornbills,” Sclater’s “ Jacamars 
Puff-birds,” Salvadori’s “ Uccelli di Papuasia,” and the atlas to the 
part “ Aves” of the great work on the natural history of Mada- 
gascar, by MM. Milne-Edwards and Grandidier. Attention !s also 
called to the valuable essays by Drs. Gadow and Krukenberg 
on the coloring of feathers, As usual the reports on insects fill 
nearly half the volume, 2. e., 292 pages. ee 
As regards the value of this work to working naturalists, 1n this 
country especially, where few have access to large libraries, ae 
can only repeat the statements heretofore made as to the uset” 
ness of such a record as this. The report is subsidized, and, 35 H 
matter of course, endorsed by the British Association for the a 
vancement of Science, as well as the Royal Society of London. 
Cortins’s MıneraLocy!.—The system of classification adopted 
by the author is identical with that of Dana so far as the pe 
classes are concerned. The book is reprinted from the Engi! 
edition, and like the first volume, published in 1878, was ea d 
for the use of “practical working miners, quarrymen a aoe 
geologists,” as well as “ students of the science classes ee a 
tion with the Department of Science and Art.” The work, 4 
author says, is little more than a dictionary of mine 
tious ba 
is that the class for which it is intended need fu 
the more common minerals and ores, their mode list with too 
and relations to one another, rather than a simple 1 
brief descriptions of or reference to all that are known. Ba 
1 Putnam's Advanced Science Series. Mineralogy. By J. H- pase [1884] 
Systematic and descriptive Mineralogy, with upwards of 400 illu 
12mo., pp. 328. 
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