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Analyses of Boohs. 
adduced in proof of the religious feelings of animals, or why 
the rejection of a Heliconia by Belt’s pet monkey, or of a gaily- 
coloured frog by ducks, should be cited as instances of indivi- 
duality of taste and temper. Whilst fully recognising that 
animals of one species differ among themselves intellectually 
and morally, even as do men, we cannot see that such facts have 
the least bearing upon the question. 
But we cannot enter further either into the defects or the 
merits of this work, and we will merely express the hope that it 
may contribute to weaken the stale prejudice of an antithetical 
distinction between man and the rest of the animal world. 
On the Structure and Affinities of the “ Tabulate Corals ,’ of the 
Palceozoic Period, with Critical Descriptions of Illustrated. 
Species. By H. Alleyne Nicholson, M.D. Edinburgh 
and London : W. Blackwood and Sons. 
To the generality of readers, even including such naturalists as 
have never turned their attention to a close and exhaustive study 
of corals, this volume will be utterly void of interest. To the 
zoo-phytologist, on the other hand, it will be welcome as con- 
veying the results of careful and accurate research, the more 
valuable, perhaps, from its special and unobtrusive character. 
The author is led to agree with Verrill and Lindstrom on the ne- 
cessity of abolishing the Tabulata as a distindf and separate 
division of the Zoantharia. Under the old name of Tabulatahe 
finds included at least twelve distindt groups — some of them 
Hydrozoa, others true Zoantharia, others again Alcyonaria, and 
a few forms quite uncertain in their affinities. 
The work cannot but increase Prof. Nicholson’s high reputa- 
tion as an able and persevering worker in biological science. 
The illustrations included in the text are numerous, and, as well 
as the plates subjoined at the end, are very well executed. 
