. Science-gossip . ral History. Edited by RichardLydekker, , Illustrated by 72coloured plates and 1,600 engravings. (Londonand New York : Frederick Warne and Co.) Pub-lished in IS. parts. This work has reached Part 34, which is the lastbut one of the finest general work on naturalhistory published in our language. It has main-tained its high standard throughout, the articleshaving been written by recognized experts in theirseveral subjects. It is thus fully up to modern illustrations, so that it will be really a new editionas well as a new series. No matter how muchinclined a young
. Science-gossip . ral History. Edited by RichardLydekker, , Illustrated by 72coloured plates and 1,600 engravings. (Londonand New York : Frederick Warne and Co.) Pub-lished in IS. parts. This work has reached Part 34, which is the lastbut one of the finest general work on naturalhistory published in our language. It has main-tained its high standard throughout, the articleshaving been written by recognized experts in theirseveral subjects. It is thus fully up to modern illustrations, so that it will be really a new editionas well as a new series. No matter how muchinclined a young naturalist may feel to specialisehis studies and conline himself to one subject, heought to get this work to find out how one groupof animals is related to and dependent upon theothers. Part 34 is devoted to a portion of theStarfish and Mollusca. We show an illustrationfrom the article on Development of Sea-Urchins,and also one of a tarantula spider from anotherpart of The Royal Natural History. io6 contributed by g. k. gude, del Museo Civico di StoriaNaturaleDi Genova (Genoa, 1896. Vols. xxxv. and xxxvi.).The whole of the first volume cited is occupiedby the zoological results of the exploration of theGiuba and its affluents (North-east Africa), by-Captain V. Bottego during the years 1892-93,under the auspices of the Italian GeographicalSociety. An elaborate map of the region ex-plored forms a frontispiece to this volume. Thesecretary, Signor G. Dalla Vedova, contributes anintroduction, from which it appears that theexpedition started from Berber, and the distancetraversed is estimated at more than 2,900kilometers, through a region hitherto unknown toEuropeans. The following specialists havecontributed reports on their various respectivedepartments. Mr. Oldfield Thomas, on theMammals, Mr. G. A. Boulenger, on the Reptilesand Batrachians (with four plates) ; Signor , on the Fishes (with one plate);Professor E. Von Martens, on the Land a
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