(1) Flora of Jamaica, containing Descriptions of the Flowering Plants known from the Island (2) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma Mollusca, ii (Trochomorphidae to Janellidae) (3) Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae and Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum

Abstract

THE verse in which Catullus describes the three volumes of Chronica written by his friend Cornelius Nepos may well be applied to the three works above named, “Doctis, Juppiter, et laboriosis.” Though by different authors, they agree in displaying the unwearied industry with which modern naturalists of eminence examine and re-examine, compare and classify, name and (occasionally) rename, the objects which Nature, their patroness, offers in seemingly endless variety.

(1) Flora of Jamaica, containing Descriptions of the Flowering Plants known from the Island.

By W. Fawcett Dr. A. B. Rendle. Vol. iii. Dicotyledons: Families Piperaceae to Connaraceae. Pp. xxiv + 280. Plates i-v, text-figures 1-113. (London: British Museum (Natural History) and Longmans, Green and Co., 1914.) Price 15s.

(2) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mollusca, ii. (Trochomorphidae to Janellidae.)

By G. K. Gude. Pp. xii + 520, text-figures 1-164. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1914.) Price 20s.

(3) Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae and Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum.

By Sir G. F. Hampson. Pp. xxviii + 858, text-figures 1-276. (London: British Museum (Natural History) and Longmans, Green and Co., 1914.) Price 25s.