MAMMALIA. 
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B. Separate Publications, 
lluTiMEYER, L. Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt. Eine 
7oogeographisclie Skizze. Mit einem Verzeichniss der 
fossilen und lebenden scliweizerisclien Saugethiere und einer 
Karte zur Andeutung der Gesehiclite der Thierverbreitung 
im Allgemeinen. Basel & Genf, 1867. 4to, pp. 57. 
[On the origin of the recent fauna. A zoogeographical sketch. 
With a list of the fossil and living Mammalia of Switzerland, 
and a map indicating the history of the dispersal of animals 
generally.] 
In this essay the author treats of a number of facts and observa- 
tions illustrative of the immense changes which must have taken 
place in the distribution of land and water on the earth’s surface, 
and which were accompanied by corresponding changes in the 
distribution of animals, in their life and organization. The 
fauna of each geological period is the daughter of the next pre- 
ceding, althougli the region inhabited by the one may frequently 
have been diflerent and distant from that oceupied by the other. 
It is the task of the zoologists and palaeontologists of the present 
age to discover the relations of those faunas, critically to ex- 
amine natural families and genera, and to define their palaeonto- 
logical as well as geographical limits. 
Tristram, H. B. The Natural History of the Bible : being a 
. review of the physical geography, geology, and meteorology 
of the Holy Land ; with a deseription of every animal and 
plant mentioned in Holy Scripture. London, 1867. > 16mo, 
pp. 516,^with numerous woodcuts. 
This work has been published under the direction of the Com- 
mittee of general literature and education appointed by the So- 
ciety for promoting Christian Knowledge. ' The objeet of the 
writer is to identify and illustrate every animal and plant men- 
tioned in Holy Scripture in a manner which shall be satisfactory 
both to the Biblical critic and to the student of natural history. 
With this object, a metliod more popular than strictly scientific 
has been followed. After introductory chapters on the physical 
geography, geology, and meteorology of the Holy Land, a large 
portion of the work is devoted to the mammals, which are re- 
viewed in alphabetical order, according to their trivial names. 
The Hebrew words are given in each case, and compared with 
their Arabic synonyms and with the Greek Septuagint, and the 
reasons set forth for the identification of each name. Every 
passage in the Bible in which the word occurs is either quoted or 
referred to, and, when necessary, illustrated or explained. A 
brief account of the natural history of the species follows, together 
with the mention of its geographical range. About 50 mammals 
are mentioned by name in the sacred writings. The plan of the 
work precluded the systematic enumeration of , the species inha- 
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