Abstract
THE Natural History Society of Glasgow, having resolved to publish a catalogue of the fauna of the western district of Scotland, have secured the co-operation of Messrs. Alston, Young, Cameron, Robertson, Binnie, and Lumsden. Already one part of the catalogue of the Crustacea and one part of the catalogue of the Hymenoptera have been issued, and these have now been followed by the present part, treating of the Mammalia. The Society is doing a good work, and will be fortunate if all the parts as published come up to the standard of the one now before us. In the nomenclature of the Mammals, of which fifty-one are recorded, the author endeavours to reconcile the spirit and the letter of our British Associa tion rules. Without entering into any details of descrip tion or economy, he has carefully worked, out the geogra phical distribution of each species. A very interesting list is given of extinct and recent Scottish Mammals, arranged in the probable order of their arrival from the southward.
The Fauna of Scotland, with Special Reference to Clydesdale and the Western District—Mammalia.
By E. R. Alston (Glasgow: The Natural History Society of Glasgow.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 21, 609 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021609a0
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