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downward to a point and united to the 

 upper cylindrical portion by the common 

 rim, along which the flower clusters were 

 developed. The two tubes were practically 

 free from any connection with each other, 

 except at the end and each bore upon its 

 exposed .surface leaves and branches, the 

 inner one, of coiirse, in a lesser degree. 

 Many of these branches were hollow and 

 often somewhat flattened or fasciated. 



The cultural conditions in the locality 

 are such that the pea vines are almost a 

 complete loss in the absence of stock to 

 which it could be fed, the only use possible 

 being- to tui-n them under as green manure. 

 The loss to the grower was total and was 

 measured by the cash outlay, not only for 

 the seed in the first in.stance but for all 

 labor upon the field, and the maintenance 

 of the force of pickers, for a number of 

 days in anticipation of a possible crop. 

 Seed of known parentage will hereafter be 

 used in the locality where the above ob- 

 servations were made. F. E. Lloyd, 



Secretary. 



SCIEyTTFW BOOKS. 



Internai'ional Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 

 ture. First Annual Issue. N — Zoology. 

 Part I., Author Catalogue. Part II., Sub- 

 ject Catalogue. London, Harrison & Sons. 

 1904. Pp. xvi + 1528. 



This work is planned to include the zoolog- 

 ical literature for the year 1901, although one 

 is compelled to analyze the preface in order 

 to determine the period covered, since no 

 record of its extent appears on cover or title 

 page of either part. According to informa- 

 tion printed on the cover the manuscript of 

 this volume was completed in August, 1903, 

 and the printed copy is dated February, 1904, 

 although the work seems not to have been gen- 

 erally distributed until some months later. 



Part I. contains the general explanations 

 with the scheme of classification and an index 

 thereto in English ; and this matter is repeated 

 in French, German and Italian. Following 

 these the author catalogue fills 2G0 pages and 



lists 5,918 titles. Part II., which is about 

 three times as voluminous, contains at the close 

 a list of journals with abbreviated titles and 

 the topographical classification. More than 

 1,100 pages are filled wdth the subject refer- 

 ences proper. The system used has been the 

 subject of extended discussion in Science and 

 calls for no further notice here. The addition 

 to each phylum of a list of names of new 

 genera and species will commend itself to all 

 as a most desirable feature. 



Such bibliographic work is not new in the 

 zoological field, and several of the similar en- 

 terprises already in existence have achieved 

 noteworthy success. The oldest of these is 

 the Zoological Record, which is especially full 

 along taxonomic lines, while the Zoologischer 

 Jahreshericht manifests a confessed morpho- 

 logical bias. Both of these, but more espe- 

 cially the latter, include an analysis of the 

 subject matter of publications cited, whereas 

 the admirable literature lists of the Zoolog- 

 ischer Anzeiger only hint at the contents of 

 a publication by its classification. The Bih- 

 liographia Universalis of the Concilium Bib- 

 liographicum forms a subject catalogue com- 

 parable directly with the publication under 

 consideration. A comparison of this volume 

 with the results achieved by the other agencies 

 noted will constitute a fair test of its value 

 to workers in zoology. 



In respect to promptness in appearance the 

 ' International Catalogue ' is certainly at an 

 abnormal disadvantage in the first year of its 

 history; whether this is sufficient excuse for 

 its publication from one to two years later 

 than the same material was available through 

 the other agencies will depend upon individual 

 judgment. At least its belated appearance 

 should enable it to equal the results of other 

 bibliographies. A close apijroximation of 

 titles listed gives over 6,600 for the Zoological 

 Record, over 8,000 for the Zoologischer 

 Anzeiger and over 8,400 for the Concilium 

 Bibliographiciim as against the 5,918 entries in 

 author list of the ' International Catalogue.' 



The character of the subject catalogue has 

 been tested both topically and taxonomically. 

 On the taxonomic side Professor Weltner, of 



