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of most systematic importance. These figures have been drawn by the 
author himself, and carefully lithographed by Mr. Hollick. They, of course, 
add immensely to the value of the work. 
THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD.* 
TT7E are exceedingly glad to be able to call attention to the publication of 
^ * another volume of this valuable guide to contemporary geological 
literature. The present issue has been, indeed, a little tardy in making its 
appearance ; but the editor informs us in his preface that this is due to the 
temporary loss of the MS. of the section on European Geology, which, he 
says, was 1 appropriated by some very wise person as an article of great 
value, and not recovered for some months.’ The general arrangement of the 
contents is the same as in the last volume, but we observe that the editor 
has adopted an approximation to the plan which we ventured to suggest in 
noticing the latter, by placing the supplementary notices relating to former 
years as appendices to the sections to which they belong, instead of bringing 
them all together in a miscellaneous mass at the end of the book, where 
they stood in much danger of being overlooked. This is, undoubtedly, a 
great improvement, but we still think it would be better to do away with 
supplements altogether, and work their contents into the body of each sec- 
tion, merely distinguishing the supplementary articles by the addition of their 
dates. Mr. Whitaker does not claim perfection for the work offered to their 
confreres by himself and his able coadjutors ; indeed, he insinuates that the 
attainment of perfection might be unsatisfactory to some people who are 
fond of 1 discoursing eloquently of “ the imperfections of the Geological Re- 
cord ’ but we are thankful to say, that the fear of such a catastrophe does 
not influence these ‘ Able Editors,’ who evidently aim at making their Re- 
cords of Geological Literature as perfect and useful as possible, and certainly 
with no stinted measure of success. 
NEW ZEALAND ZOOLOGY.f 
] )ROF. HUTTON’S 1 Zoological Exercises ’ is the outcome of his adoption of 
- the method of teaching Natural History advocated and illustrated by 
Professors Huxley and Martin in their Elementary Biology. His students 
required a handbook, and that just mentioned, from its dealing only with 
British organisms, and for some other reasons, did not quite suit the wants of 
the New Zealand Professor, who, accordingly, set himself the task of pre- 
* The Geological Record for 1877. An account of Works on Geology t Mine- 
ralogy, and Palceontology , published during the year. With Supplements for 
1874-76. Edited by William Whitaker, B.A., F.G.S. 8vo. London: 
Taylor & Francis, 1880. 
t Zoological Exercises for Students in New Zealand. By F. W. Hutton, 
Sm. 8vo. Dunedin : J. Wilkie & Co., 1880. 
