beautiful things in Japan is the Glass Rope Sponge (Hyalonema Sieboldi), whose silken coils adorn the shell-shops at Enoshima.

Books recommended. The above article is founded chiefly on Rein's Japan, p. 157, et seq. Rein's treatment of the fishes is specially full, but a good résumé of the other classes is given, together with references to the chief authorities on each.-See also Blakiston and Pryer's Catalogue of the Birds of Japan, printed in Vol. X. Part I. of the Asiatic Transactions; Pryer's Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Japan, in Vol. XI. Part II. and Vol. XII. Part II. of the same, with Additions and Corrections in Vol. XIII. Part I., and the same author's beautifully illustrated work entitled Rhopalocera Nihonica.

Postscript to Article on Earthquakes.

After the foregoing pages had passed through the press, there occurred on the morning of the 28th October, 1891, an earthquake second only-if second-to the great earthquake of 1855. Felt in Tokyo as a severe, unusually protracted, but not disastrous shock, it seems to have had its centre in the province of Mino, where the towns of Gifu and Ōgaki were completely destroyed. At Ōsaka, at Ōtsu, at Fukui, at Toyama, and almost the whole way along the Tōkaidōespecially at Nagoya-incalculable damage was done and thousands of lives were lost.

CORRECTIONS.

Page 156, line 2, for July 1, read July 7.

Page 335, last line but one, for Lock, read Loch.

INDEX.

(When several references are given, the most important is placed first.)

Ainos, 18, 23, 180, 185, 366, 385, Area of Japan, 186.

Alcock (Sir Rutherford), 60, 233, | Armour, 40, 290.

Aston (W. G.), Pref., 59, 203, 224, | Bertin (Mr.), 322.

Audsley and Bowes' works, 64, 92, Bird (Miss), 61, 236; 20; 227, 453,

Bacon (Miss A. M.), 59, 84, 128, Bishops, 300, 301, 305.

Baelz (Dr. E.), Pref., 106, 246, 366, Blackening the teeth, 56.