1884.] 
Analyses of Books. 
621 
Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences. No. 1. Febru- 
ary, 1884. 
This number contains a description of a new species of Squalius, 
by Rosa Smith ; a description of a number of new plants, some 
of which, we regret to find, have been fitted out with a Latin 
“ diagnosis.” What apology can be urged for this “ survival ” 
we must own ourselves unable to see. New chemical com- 
pounds, new physical fadts, are not in our days described in a 
dead language which has the disadvantage of not affording an 
accurate nomenclature for colours. Why, then, should this anti- 
quated custom be retained for new botanical or entomological 
species ? 
The Microscopic Sedtion comprises an enumeration of the 
Fungi of the Pacific Coast and of California. 
The Proceedings of the Astronomical Sedtion contain nothing 
of marked interest. 
