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Rico. On page 281 Saurecia and Panolopus are mentioned; the 

 former is hardly entitled to generic rank, a fact important in this 

 connection, while the genus Panolopus Cope has been shown by 

 Garman to have been based upon a specimen artificially muti- 

 lated. On page 282, in speaking of Capromys no mention is 

 made of C. ingrahamii, a peculiar species long known from one 

 of the Plana 'Cays in the southern Bahamas. On page 289 

 Toditae should read Todidze, while on page 291 it would have been 

 worth while mentioning the fact that de la Torre, of Havana, 

 has published the account of finding fossil ammonites of Jurassic 

 age in the Sierra de Vinales, western Cuba. Such trifling errors 

 and omissions do little to mar the book! Its general excellence 

 carries it .far beyond petty criticisms. While the views which 

 Scharff expresses will doubtless meet with opposition from many 

 naturalists of the ' ' old school, ' ' nevertheless they represent those 

 which have been gaining ground fast and which will in time be 

 held by all zoogeographers. As James Bryce's " American Com- 

 monwealth" came from England, so indeed does Scharff 's Amer- 

 ican Animals coming from Ireland stand as by far the most im- 

 portant contribution to a knowledge of the subject it discusses. 

 Indeed, it is likely to remain so for many a long day. 



T. Barbour 



