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localities, time of appearance, and distribution outside the British 

 Isles, and the trouble expended in the preparation of this portion of 

 the work must have been enormous. It strikes us, indeed, that 

 there cannot surely be much omitted from this important work for 

 the future investigator to turn his attention to, so fully does the 

 author enter into the subject. We cordially congratulate Mr. Tutt 

 upon the successful issue of this first volume, and trust that he will 

 be encouraged to proceed rapidly with the succeeding parts. If to 

 the mere collector it may appear at first sight the driest work on 

 British Lepidoptera that has yet appeared, it must on the other hand 

 prove to the serious worker an invaluable companion. 



A LIST OF EUROPEAN BIRDS, INCLUDING ALL THOSE FOUND IN 

 THE WESTERN PAL^ARCTIC AREA, WITH A SUPPLEMENT. By Heatley 

 Noble, F.Z.S. (London: R. H. Porter, 1898.) 



This is an old and valued friend in a new guise, namely Dresser's 

 List altered in form, and brought down to date. To this Mr. Noble 

 has added a supplement containing the species which are said to 

 have occurred in the region covered, but which, for various reasons, 

 are considered inadmissible. Mr. Noble has bestowed considerable 

 care on the revision, and in its new small-octavo form and neat 

 cloth binding it is both a handy book of reference and useful in a 

 variety of ways. 



THE NATURALIST'S DIRECTORY, 1899. (London: L. Upcott 

 Gill.) Price One Shilling. 



We note a great advance, in the shape of general improvement,, 

 in the current issue of this useful little book. Its weakest point 

 now is to be found in the Foreign Section. We quite fail to realise 

 why this important part of the work should be confined to those 

 persons who desire to exchange specimens, which means the exclusion 

 from its pages of the majority of the leading foreign naturalists ! 

 Why should there be a section devoted to Microscopy ? Surely the 

 students classed under such a heading must be either Zoologists, 

 Botanists, or Geologists. We trust to see further improvements in 

 next year's volume. 



