RECORD 
OF 
ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
MAMMALIA 
BY 
Albert Gunther^ M.A.^ M.D., Pii.D. 
A. Separate Publications. 
Owen, R. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates. Vol. III. Mam- 
mals. London, 1868, 8vo, pp. 915. 
We have given a notice of this work in Zool. Record, iii. 
p. 1. It is concluded with the present (third) volume, which 
contains the anatomy of the soft parts of mammals. The last 
chapter is devoted to an examination of the questions of homo- 
logy and teleology, of the relations of existing to extinct species, 
of their development, and of the origin of life, — questions which 
had occupied for years the thoughts of French biologists and of 
the author. 
Darwin, Ch. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Do- 
mestication. London, 1868, 8vo. Vol. I. pp. 4dl ; Vol. II, 
pp. 486. 
The author states that the object of his work is to give in the 
first volume, under the head of each species, only such facts as 
he has been able to collect or observe showing the amount and 
nature of the changes which animals and plants have undergone 
whilst under man^s dominion, or which bear on the general 
principles of variation. He does not intend to describe all the 
numerous races of animals domesticated by liian, except in one 
case only, namely in that of the domestic pigeon. The second 
1868. [vol. V.] b 
