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reader must be referred to the original article to understand the 

 value of the changes advocated in it. 



SAGINA APETALA IN WESTERNESS? By W. F. Miller. Journ. 

 Bot., 1899, p. 36. Advises that the record in Journ. Hot., 1895, 

 p. 345, should be regarded as in need of confirmation. 



HlEROCHLOE BOREALIS IN KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE. By Arthur 



Bennett, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., 1899, p. 328. Refers to the discovery 

 reported in our last issue. 



BRYOLOGICAL NOTES FROM THE WEST HIGHLANDS. By H. N. 

 Dixon, M.A., F.L.S. Journ. Bot., 1899, pp. 300-310. Is an 

 important paper, with records new to various districts, and even to 

 Scotland. 



NEW AND RARE SCOTTISH HEPATIC^;. By W. H. Pearson. 

 Journ. Bot., 1899, pp. 274-275. Enumerates three new to Scotland, 

 and twelve others new to West Inverness, collected by Mr. S. M. 

 Macvicar. 



HEPATIC^E OF MOIDART, WEST INVERNESS. By Symers M. 

 Macvicar. Journ. Bot., 1899, pp. 348-356. Is an exhaustive list, 

 with localities of all species found by the author. It includes 

 numerous new records. 



REVIEWS. 



THE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY. INSECTS. Part II. 

 By David Sharp, M.A., M.B., F.R.S. (London: Macmillan and 

 Co., Ltd., 1899.) 



Dr. Sharp is to be congratulated on the completion of his 

 treatise on Insects, which occupies the greater part of the fifth and 

 the whole of the sixth volumes of this estimable Natural History. 

 We were very favourably impressed with Insects, Part I., which 

 appeared some four years ago, and our estimation of the author's 

 ability as a clear and careful expounder of his subject has certainly 

 not diminished on perusal of the volume now before us. The whole 

 treatise is quite a masterpiece in its way. While giving a vast 

 amount of detailed information on the various groups, yet the 

 style is sufficiently lucid to render the book an eminently readable 

 one. Add to this the excellence and profusion of the illustrations 

 and the elegance of the printing, and we are led at once to 

 remark that it is certainly the most acceptable introduction to the 

 science of Entomology in the English language, or at any rate to 

 the subject treated from the systematic standpoint. The volume 

 just published treats of the Hymenoptera, Tubulifera, and Aculeata, 

 the Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Aphaniptera, 

 Thysanoptera, Hemiptera, and Anoplura. The various groups of 



