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BOOK NOTICES. to Victoria, are given, besides an admirable sketch of the patent laws of more than forty Theology. foreign countries and British possessions. Notes. The revisers of the authorised version of the Natural History. New Testament met on Tuesday last in the Morphologische Studien an Echinodermen. Jerusalem Chamber for their 86th session, Von Dr. Phil. HUBERT LUDWIG. Bd. i. and sat for seven hours. There were present Heft i-iii. (Abhandlung i-ix.) Svo., the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol (who pp. vi.—300, price 14/-. Leipzig : Wil-presided), the Bishop of Salisbury, the Deans helm Engelmann. 1879. [London: of Westminster, Rochester, Lincoln, and Lich Williams and Norgate.] field, Archdeacons Lee and Palmer, Canons This is a reprint of a series of articles conLightfoot and Westcott, Principals Angus and Newth, Professor Host, Drs. Moulton and tributed to the Zeitschrift für wiss. Zool. Vance Smith, Prebendaries Humphry and vols. xxviii. to xxxi., during the years 1877– Scrivener — in all seventeen members, with 8-9. The papers include long articles on Mr. Troutbeck, the secretary. The company the anatomical structure of the Crinoidea, Asteridea, and Ophiuridæ; shorter ones of proceeded to a review of their second revision a similar character on Rhizocrinus lofotensis, of the Gospel of St. Matthew, with special Rhopalodina lageniformis, Trichaster elereference to questions of English diction. SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY. gans, and Brisinga ; and two others, one on Feb. 4.- Dr. S. Birch, President, in the the elastic testæ of the Echinoidea, the other chair. The following were elected members on the genital organ of Asterina gibbosa. of the Society :-Countess d'Avigdor, Baron There are twenty-three plates. An index is H. de Worms, Messrs. A. F. Buxton, M. appended to the volume. Lugasy, and Dr. L. W. Schott; Ambrosial Notes. Library, Milan ; Theological Seminary, New M. Maurice Sand, son of the great novelist, Brunswick; Theological Seminary, Rochester; ' has discovered and published an account of a John Hopkins, University Library, Baltimore. "prehistoric flint-implement workshop " near A memoir of the late Joseph Bonomi, by Mr. the village of Loges, on the frontier of the W. Simpson, was read. M. E. Revillout Indre and the Cher. On the summit of a communicated a translation of the will of a heath, almost on a level with the surface, he Coptic monk, which will be printed in full in has picked up hundreds of fragments of flints, the next part of the Transactions. convex on one side, concave on the other; also lanceolated axe-heads, arrow-heads, a Jurisprudence. jasper axe, and many scrapers in red and The Patentee's Manual ; being a Treatise on white carnelian or sardonyx. The flint-layers cropping out to the surface bear marks of the Law and Practice of Letters Patent, human labour. The neighbouring villages had especially intended for Patentees and In long collected flints from this eminence; but ventors. By JAMES JOHNSON, of the M. Sand has satisfied himself that no flint Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and quarry had existed in the neighbourhood since J. HENRY JOHNSON, A.I.C.E., Solicitor 1775, and then only at other and well-known and Patent Agent. Fourth Edition, points. He suggests that pre-historic man thoroughly revised and enlarged. Demy was attracted by the layers of Aints cropping 8vo., pp. xxiii.-452, price 10/6. Long out on a barren spot surrounded by forests, mans and Co. 1879. and that, a river running near, the scrapers The fourth edition of this useful work will were manufactured for preparing skins. |