. Science-gossip . ertain, that even Gosses and are one and the same animal;the views of both figures can be obtained perfectlyby focussing higher and lower on the same new Ratiuliis palpitatus is most probablyidentical with Coelopns bvachiuvus. I am convincedMr. Gosse made a great mistake in founding thegenus Codopus, and describing the toes as onewithin the other. His figures are fairly correct,but his interpretation I consider wrong. All theanimals of this genus have two narrow, curved,nearly equal toes, separated at the base, but joinedat the tip, thus leavin
. Science-gossip . ertain, that even Gosses and are one and the same animal;the views of both figures can be obtained perfectlyby focussing higher and lower on the same new Ratiuliis palpitatus is most probablyidentical with Coelopns bvachiuvus. I am convincedMr. Gosse made a great mistake in founding thegenus Codopus, and describing the toes as onewithin the other. His figures are fairly correct,but his interpretation I consider wrong. All theanimals of this genus have two narrow, curved,nearly equal toes, separated at the base, but joinedat the tip, thus leaving a clear space between andmoving together. This clear space Mr. Gosse tookfor a toe lying in the hollow of the other toe. Bycrushing a number of these animals the falacy isquicky dispelled. I hope I have said enough to warn students ofrotifers against making new species simply becausethey find some structure which is not mentioned inthe original description. 27, Great Castle Strn-t. London, 11 I go NOTICES BY JOHN T. CARRINGTON. Round the Year : A Serks of Short Professor L. C. Miall, 295 pp. 8vo,and 72 illustrations. (London and New York:Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1896.) Price 5s. The satisfaction of taking up any work byProfessor Miall lies in the feeling that whatevertherein may be contained will be not only popu-larh written, but also %vith accuracy. So muchbook-maJiing nowadays exists that it is reallydifficult for the uninitiated to select the grain fromthe chaff, among the embarrassment of richesdisplayed on the counter in a good book-shop, forreaders with a taste for science. Still there issafety in names of authors, and among them wemay count the writer of Round the Year. Inthis book we find the most commonplace subjectstreated as an entertaining story. These subjects
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