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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST \Yoj.. XLI 



ZOOLOGY 



A Statue of Lamarck — As yet there is no memorial to this emi- 

 nent naturaHst but now it is proposed to erect one in tlie Jardin des 

 Plantes in Paris. The matter is in charge of a committee of the 

 Museum d'llistorie Naturelle in Paris; subscriptions may be sent 

 to Professor Joubin, the secretary, i)o, Rue de Buffon, Paris, France. 



Gardiner's Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes/ parts of which 

 have been noticed in these pages as they have appeared, has now 

 been comj)leted. The whole makes two quarto volumes of 1079 

 l)ages and 100 plates. In this concluding part is an account of the 

 Myriapoda collected by R. I. Pocock enumerating eight species, and 

 some supplementary remarks upon geogray)hieal distribution and 



Kollmann's Atlas of Human Embryology.' 'I liis is, as its name 

 iTnpli<'s, an atlas of developnient . TIkm-c is no true text, merely 

 descriptions of the three liinidred and forty fiunres which are intended 

 to illustrate tli(> features of hunian eiubrvolou-y. 'I'hcse figures, 



from 'u!i.h'.lrauing> are uith feu eveptinn^ e\eellenl, uhil.'lhn.e 



made by the /inc process are usuall^ more eni.le. h. a feu . a.e. 

 other animals than man have been called upon to supply the illus- 

 trations. Thus the (>arly phases of the niainnialiaii onuns are based 



Bonnet's work upot. the <loi: and S<-lenka^ up«>" =M><- <-alled 

 in to illustrate other .-arly features; while < hiek and (ish furnish illus- 



' The Faun;, 

 edited by J. ^t i 

 1906. 3s, 6(1. 



^ Handatlas 



