Biology at the Antipodes

Abstract

THE “Macleay Memorial Volume,” dated September 1893, is a handsome work of.308 pp. quarto, with 42 plates and woodcuts. It contains a biography, by the editor, Mr. J. J. Fletcher, Secretary of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, with an accompanying portrait, and a series of thirteen representative memoirs, which deal chiefly with certain indigenous worms, mol luscs, crustaceans, fishes, and mammals. Botany and vegetable palæontology are duly represented; and the claims of anthropology as a branch of biological science are rightly recognised, in the incorporation of an article by Mr. R. Etheridge, jun., on a series of exhibits for warded by the Commissioners for New South Wales to the Chicago Exhibition of last year. The class Aves is, curiously, unrepresented; and we could have wished that Prof. Parker's revisionary monograph of the Dinornithidæ might have been reserved for its pages.

The “Macleay Memorial Volume.”

Published by the Linnean Society of New South Wales. (London: Dulau and Co., 1893.)