62 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



SOME BRITISH EARTH-MITES. C. F. George. The Naturalist, 

 1909. Several new species of Trombidiidce are described in these 

 articles from specimens collected by Mr. W. Evans in the Forth 

 Area. 



BOTANY. 



FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. By W. A. 

 Clarke, F.L.S.,/0w. Bot., 1909, pp. 413-416. A supplement to 

 Author's previous comprehensive work. The only Scottish species 

 referred to are Cerastium alpinnm, L. and CaUitriche autumnalis, L. 



THE BRITISH PANSIES. By E. Drabble, D.Sc., F.L.S. Supple- 

 ment \.Q Journ. Bot., Oct. and Dec. 1909, 32 pages, and plates 500- 

 501. A full discussion of the forms in the group Melanium, with 

 descriptions of 23 British " species" and " varieties " and 3 " hybrids," 

 and illustrations of these on 2 plates. The distribution in Britain 

 of these forms is given as far as the author has seen specimens. 



THYMUS SPATHULATUS, OPIZ., IN BRITAIN. By G. Claridge 

 Druce. Journ. Bot., pp. 384-385. Mentions distribution of the forms 

 glaber, Mill., avafus, Mill., andpreecox, Opiz., in Scotland as shown by 

 specimens. 



TORTULA ACIPHYLLA IN BRITAIN. By W. E. Nicholson. Journ. 

 Bot., 1909, pp. 374-375, on boulders above Loch-na-chat, Ben 

 Lawers. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



A TREATISE ON ZOOLOGY. Edited by Sir Ray Lankester, K.C.B., 

 M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. Pt. ix. Vertebrata Craniata (Cydostomes and 

 Fishes}. By E. S. Goodrich, M.A., F.R.S. (London : A. & C. 

 Black, 1909.) 



The present contribution to this important series treats of the 

 two most primitive Classes of the Vertebrata, the Lampreys and 

 their allies, and the true Fishes. As the first volume treating of 

 Vertebrates, it opens with a definition and description of the lead- 

 ing characters of these most important members of the animal 

 kingdom. The remainder of the Part deals with, in their systematic 

 sequence, the various Orders and their numerous component Families, 

 recent and fossil, concerning which a great amount of information 

 is afforded of a technical nature, on the essential characters and 

 anatomical peculiarities of each of these major and minor groups. In 

 addition to taxonomic definitions, information is furnished relating 

 to their distribution in space and time, and some reference is made 

 to life-histories. Like the predecessors of the series noticed in this 

 Magazine, it is a learned and able exposition on its subject, and is 



