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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Plagiostomates and Chimseres^ first giving a detailed account of 
tlieir anatomy and history (pp. 1-308). He gives the synonymy 
and a description or diagnosis of every well-established species, 
mentioning the names only of doubtful ones. 318 species of 
Plagiostomates are described, against 212 of Muller & Henlc^s 
standard work ; six are described as new, and fifteen mentioned 
as doubtful. The systematic arrangement is identical with that 
of the German ichthyologists. The plates represent details of 
the skeleton, brain, dentition and integuments, ova, &c. 
Kner, 11. Peise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die 
Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, unter den Befelileii 
des Commodore B. von Wiillerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer 
Theil. Fische. 1. und 2. Abtheilung. Wien, 1865, 4to 
(pp. 272, with 11 plates). 
[Voyage of the Austrian Frigate ^ Novara^ round the 
Globe, during the years 1857 to 1859, under the command 
of Commodore B. vpn W.-U. Zoological Part. Fishes, 
parts 1 & 2.] 
Prof. 11. Kner has undertaken to examine and to describe the 
ichthyological portion of the collections made by the naturalists 
attached to the Novara expedition. As regards the systematic 
arrangement he follows that adopted in the ^ Catalogue of 
Fishes : ' he gives characteristic diagnoses of the families and 
genera, and adds to each species partial or entire descriptions 
and numerous remarks on anatomical details ; into the synonymy 
he enters exceptionally only. The two parts published contain 
316 Acanthopterygians and 34 Pharyngognaths, the number of 
new species being very small. The species described from the 
island of St. Paul are of particular interest; however, we shall 
refer to nearly all the species severally in the special part of this 
^ Record,^ as works of this kind do hot give the fauna of some 
district or a certain part of the system in a complete form, and 
consequently species on which important information is given may 
be easily overlooked by the student. As regards the external 
appearance of the work, it is exceedingly Avell got up, as, indeed, 
are all the publications of the Vienna Academy. 
Having been frequently challenged, throughout this work, wn 
' cannot leave it without offering some remarks on one or two 
points. We have mentioned that the author folloAvs the arrange- 
ment proposed in the ^ Catalogue of Fishes ; and we regret to 
see that, after having once resolved upon adopting the families 
of the Catalogue,^ the author did not use their arrangement 
given in the systematic synopsis at the end of the third volmne, 
which, whatever its alleged or real shortcomings may be, is a 
system and not merely a series of families. Now, although 
Prof. Kner adopts the families of the Catalogue,^ he does so 
