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moreover, we do not know that they are phosphorescent in their natural 
habitat at the bottom of the deep sea. Is it absolutely proved that these 
abysses are really in perpetual darkness, and that no microscopic plants live 
in them ? 
Besides recording his scientific observations, Mr. Moseley "s narrative gives 
a pleasant and readable account of the terrestrial localities visited, their 
scenery, architectural and social peculiarities, and inhabitants. With regard 
to the last, indeed, our author has a good deal to say especially in relation 
to Japan (with which country and its occupants he seems peculiarly 
charmed), and several of the islands of the Pacific. When we consider 
that the course taken by the “ Challenger,” after leaving the southern ice, 
carried her by New Zealand, Tongatabu, the Fijis, the New Hebrides, the 
Moluccas, the Philippines, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, Japan, the 
Sandwich Islands, and Tahiti, and that at all these localities Mr. Moseley 
had, and made good use of, the opportunity of examining into the characters, 
habits, and manners of the natives, the reader will easily understand that 
scattered through his agreeable pages there is an immense amount of infor- 
mation which will be welcome to the student of anthropology. In fact, in 
every respect, this book is one of the most important contributions to our 
scientific literature that has appeared for a long time. The only thing that 
the reader will regret is that it is not rather more freely illustrated ; the 
woodcuts, although generally good, are not numerous : and there are only 
three plates, two illustrating antarctic icebergs and pack ice, and the third a 
chart showing the track of the ship and the contours of the sea-bottom. 
ANATOMY OF THE ELEPHANT.* 
U NDER the title of “ Studies in Comparative Anatomy,” Professor Miall, 
of Leeds, has commenced the publication of a series of small volumes 
each of which is to contain the results of some personal investigation in 
comparative anatomy. The first of these treated of the structure of the 
skull of the crocodile, one of the most instructive subjects that the author 
could well have selected ; in the second, which is now before us, he describes 
the anatomy of the Indian elephant, from a dissection of a young female speci- 
men made by him with the co-operation of Mr. F. Greenwood. As this 
investigation relates especially to the muscles and other soft parts, it can 
hardly prove so generally attractive as the former treatise ; but as it contains 
a great many new facts and corrections or completions of the statements of 
former authors, it will be of great value to that increasing body of compara- 
tive anatomists who do not consider that their study ought to be confined to 
the bones. The dissection of so large a beast as an elephant is a work of 
no small labour ; it appears to have occupied the authors about three years, 
and they recommend to future dissectors of large animals the adoption of 
the mode of preservation employed by them, which is sufficiently described 
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* “ Studies in Comparative Anatomy.” No. II. “ Anatomy of the Indian 
Elephant.” By L. C. Miall and F. Greenwood. 8vo. London : Macmillan. 
1878 . 
