L'Année Biologique

Abstract

IN one of the Woods Holl Biological Lectures, entitled “Bibliography: a Study of Resources,” Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot, himself the author of one of the standard zoological bibliographies, compares the biological bibliographer to an explorer in a forest “who finds no open way to travel, but must laboriously hunt for his specimens … as they lie scattered, unclassified, and, all too often, concealed.” These words were spoken in 1895, but now the two bulky volumes before us show that the biologist need not lose hope in the ever thickening jungle of literature. They form a thoroughly competent biological record for two years, and, whatever may be their defects in detail, they deserve a hearty welcome. If Prof. Delage's undertaking is supported as it should be, not only by subscribers, but by co-operators, it should do much in the future to widen the interest of naturalists in the great problems of biology, to raise the standard of biological scholarship, and to curb the impatience of those who hasten to ill-advised reiteration of tales many times told.

L'Année Biologique.

Comptes rendus annuels des travaux de Biologie générale, publicés sous la direction de Yves Delage, professeur à la Sorbonne, avec la collaboration d'un Comité de Rédacteurs. Secrétaire de la rédaction, Georges Poirault, Docteur ès sciences. Première année (1895)., Pp. xlv + 732. 1897. Deuxième année (1896). Pp. xxxv + 808. 1898 (Paris: Schleicher Frères.)