THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 



[Vol. XLV 



A USEFUL EVOLUTION BIBLIOGRAPHY 



The Bulletin Scientifique de la France ct de Belgique 

 (founded by Giard and now conducted by Blaringhem, Bohn, 

 Caullery, Mesnil, Perez and others) has begun the issuance of a 

 "Bibliographia Evolutionis" that promises to be of very great 

 usefulness. Now that L'Ann>'< Biohxjiquc is irrecoverably out 

 of date in its annual issues— has it indeed officially expired?— the 

 new "Bibliographia Evolutionis"' will ho especially welcome. 



It is published as a specially paged part of each issue 

 (quarterly) of the Bulletin, so that at the year's end it can be 

 gathered and hound up together either at beginning or end of the 

 Bulletin volume, or. and better, separately. 



The "Bibliograpliia" was begun in 1910 and in its first year 

 (January-December, 1910) comprised careful abstracts and 

 evaluations ot :H.~> books and papers treating of such evolution 

 subjects (the abstracts are arranged by subjects) as experimental 

 biology, general cytology and fecundation, general embryology, 

 phylogeny, evolution of instincts, general ethology, mimicry, 

 symbiosis, parasitism, heredity and hybridization, influence of 

 the environment and adaptations, regeneration, sex, castration 

 and parthenogenesis, variation, teratology, general evolution. 

 The books and papers reviewed are almost exclusively issues of 

 1910, only a few 1908 and 1909, references being included. 



The "Bibliograpliia Evolutionis" apparently may not be sub- 

 scribed for or purchased separately. To obtain it, then, one must 

 subscribe for the Bulletin Scientifique <1> la France et de la Bel- 

 gique, 32 francs a year, Redaction du Bulletin Scientifique, 3, 

 rue d'Ul m> p ar is. The Bulletin is, however, an admirably con- 

 ducted journal, containing important original papers, by French 

 and Belgian scholars, on evolutionary matters. It is at present 

 in its forty-fifth volume (fifth volume of its sixth series). 



Interesting item: the title page of the "Bibliograpliia Evolu- 

 tionis" bears on its title page, as stamp of its recognition, a 

 i eness of the face of Jacques Loeb. y h K. 



