188 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



INVERNESS AND BANFF CRYPTOGAMS. By J. A. Wheldon, 

 F.L.S., and Albert Wilson, F.L.S. (Journ. Bot., 1910, pp. 123- 

 129). Enumerates mosses, liverworts, and lichens found, in July 

 1909, during four days spent among the higher Cairngorms and on 

 Craig Ellachie ; and contains numerous additions to county lists to 

 records of altitudes. 



ROSS-SHIRE PLANTS, 1909. By Rev. E. S. Marshall, F.L.S. , 

 and W. A. Shoolbred, F.L.S. (Jou?-n. Bot., 1910, pp. 132-140). 

 Chiefly from E. Ross (106), with a few from W. Ross (105) 

 vascular plants, a good many being additions to county lists. 



NOTES ON LASTR^A REMOTA (MOORE). By W. B. Boyd 

 (Trans. Edinb. F, Nat. and Micr. Soc., 1909, vi., pp. 85-92). 

 Discusses its origin, as a hybrid between L. dilatata and L. Filix 

 mas probably, and records its occurrence between Ardlui and 

 Tarbet (V.C. 99). 



MlCROFUNGI OBSERVED AT TRAQUAIR AND ROSLIN. By D. A. 



Boyd (Tr. E. F. N. and M. S., 1909, vi., pp. 149-152). A list of 

 species, of which Marssonia Daphnes, Sacc., on Daphne Mezereon, is 

 a new record for Britain. 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXCURSIONS DURING 1908, OF THE 

 EDINBURGH FIELD NATURALISTS' AND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 

 (Tr. E. F. N. and M. S., 1909, vi., pp. 172-178, and pi. 14-15). 

 A number of flowering and flowerless plants are named as observed, 

 several being new records for counties. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



DARWINISM AND HUMAN LIFE. By J. Arthur Thomson, M.A. 

 Pp. xii and 245. (Andrew Melrose, London, 1909.) Price 53. net. 



The volume contains a graceful and enthusiastic appreciation 

 of Darwin, the ideal seeker after knowledge, "one of the great 

 Immortals among men," whose persistent, lifelong aim was the 

 discovery of truth ; and of Darwin's work, the effect of which has 

 been so far-reaching that "without exaggeration ... it may be 

 said that no other man of science has influenced the framework of 

 humair'thought as Darwin has done." But it is much more than 

 a mere eulogium of Darwin and his work, for while our debts to 

 the great scientist are fully acknowledged, his contributions to the 

 philosophy of natural science, and especially to the doctrine of 

 organic descent, are examined in the light of the recent researches 

 to which his work was the direct incentive. Thus there are chapters 

 discussing the Web of Life, the Struggle for Existence, the Raw 

 Materials of Progress, the Facts of Inheritance, and Selection ; and 



