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lamented author ever wrote that he found in the oesophagus of a 

 Greenshank "a pike over three inches long" (page 53) ! It is to 

 careless transcription, we are inclined to think, that many of the most 

 terrible misspellings in the names of things, places, and persons may 

 be due that of Wolley among the last. A knowledge of the 

 Finnish language is certainly not to be expected of all, but still 

 there are good maps to be had, and from them the names of 

 localities might have been correctly written down, instead of being 

 given in such a way as to make it hard to follow the travellers' 

 footsteps, to say nothing of the ridicule it will bring from foreigners, 

 and the pain it causes to a conscientious reviewer, anxious to 

 appreciate the toil (often excessive) voluntarily undergone by one 

 whose untimely fate all true naturalists must deeply deplore. In 

 justice to his memory, it is a great pity that the publication of his 

 diary was not supervised by some one with a competent knowledge 

 of Scandinavian ornithology. 



INSECTS, THEIR STRUCTURE AND LIFE. By George H. Car- 

 penter, B.Sc. Lond. (London : J. M. Dent and Co., 1899.) 



A very few years ago the British student of Entomology could 

 justly complain of the absence of any good general text-book of his 

 subject at a reasonable price, or indeed at any price. Now, how- 

 ever, he is in a more fortunate position ; for, while the work of 

 Dr. Sharp, noticed above, and the similarly got-up volume by 

 Dr. Packard on Insect-Anatomy may serve the more advanced 

 student (or the wealthier), the handy little text-book of Mr. 

 Carpenter, just published, furnishes an excellent and a cheap 

 introduction to the subject. For the very modest sum of 45. 6d. 

 the youthful lover of insects can here obtain a thoroughly reliable 

 account of all the Orders. The book is divided into six chapters, 

 the first four of which are devoted to (i) the Form, (2) the Life- 

 History, (3) the Classification, and (4) the Orders of Insects respec- 

 tively, while the last two are occupied with a consideration of the 

 relations of these creatures to their surroundings, and their 

 pedigrees. At the end of the volume is appended a very useful 

 classified list of papers on special branches of the subject. The 

 book is well printed and amply illustrated, though some of the 

 figures have suffered somewhat through the roughness of the paper. 



P. H. G. 



THE GLASGOW CATALOGUE OF NATIVE AND ESTABLISHED 

 PLANTS : BEING A CONTRIBUTION TO THE TOPOGRAPHICAL BOTANY 

 OF THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND. Second 

 Edition. (Glasgow: Peter Ewing, F.L.S., The Frond, Uddingston, 

 1899.) 



In an unpretentious form, Mr. Ewing has brought together the 

 results of many years' observations by himself, and the contributions 

 of botanical friends, in so far as relates to the counties of the West 



