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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
not aware we did so. The ‘ Intelli- 
gencer’ was not then in existence, and 
consequently there were not the same 
facilities for announcing to subscribers 
the receipt of their names, or for inti- 
mating to would-be subscribers that their 
names had not reached us. 
We announced last week that we were 
now willing to receive the names of 
subscribers for Yols. VI. — X. to the 
‘ Natural History of the Tineina,’ at 10s. 
per volume, and we have much pleasure 
in annoucing the receipt of the names of 
the following subscribers, up to Tuesday 
night, March 5th: — 
1. Bond, F., Esq. 
2. Hartwright, J. H., Esq. 
3. Russell, W. T., Esq. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Bibliotheca Zoologica. Verzerchniss der 
Schriflen uber Zoologie, welehe in den 
Periodischen Werken entlialten und 
vom Jahre 1846 — 1860 selbst'dndig 
erschienen sind. ‘ The Literature of 
Zoology, which has appeared in Pe- 
riodicals, Transactions, &c., and of 
the Books published from 1846 to 
I860.’ By J. Victor Carus, Professor 
of Comparative Anatomy, Leipsig, and 
William Engelmann. Leipsig : W. 
Engelmann. London : Williams and 
Norgate. Price 15s. 
This is a fat octavo of 950 closely- 
printed pages. 
Dr. Hagen thus expresses himself 
concerning this recent contribution to 
zoological bibliography : — 
“This work, which has just appeared, 
and of which the second part, with index, 
should follow in a few months, is to any 
one who is engaged iu zoological works, 
so useful and so imperatively necessary 
that it does not require any recommenda- 
tion. The continuance in unanticipated 
numbers of increasing discoveries of new 
animals renders a Catalogue of the 
already accumulated materials extremely 
necessary, in order to lead the labour of 
the comparatively few naturalists in the 
right path. The service which, in this 
respect, has been rendered by Engel- 
mann’s ‘ Bibliotheca Historico-naturalis ’ 
is well known; that concludes with the 
year 1846, and for some years past its 
continuation has been fell as an absolute 
want. But in the new volume which 
has now appeared much more is con- 
tained than is implied by the title, since, 
besides the works which appeared be- 
tween 1846 and 1860, it contains all 
those which were omitted in the ‘ Biblio- 
theca Historico-naturalis,’ and in addi- 
tion, a complete Catalogue of all the 
small treatises coutaiued in periodical 
works and the Transactions of Societies. 
Those only who have been occupied with 
a similar work can fully estimate the un- 
tiring labour and perseverance with 
which the authors have carried out their 
undertaking. This is truly a gigantic 
work, more especially as the systematic 
position of the creatures described in the 
scattered treatises is subjoined. The 
labours of previous writers in this respect 
are very faulty ; the authors must there- 
fore themselves have referred to the 
papers catalogued. Only when the 
works were not accessible, and this, as 
far as I can judge, has only rarely been 
the case, have they been compelled to 
rely on the works of others. 
“ That in so vast a work, consisting 
almost entirely of names and figures, 
errors are not entirely avoided, was only 
to be expected ; yet I can assert that in 
the parts of the volume examined by me 
