62 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



THE ALPINE FLORA AND RARER PLANTS OF THE GLENSHEE 

 DISTRICT. By William Young. Trans. Edin. Bot. Soc., xxiii. 

 pp. 83-91. 



THE HEPATIC/E OF THE GLENSHEE DISTRICT. By William 

 Young. Trans. Edin. Bot. Soc., xxiii. pp. 93-98. 



SOME RARE CAITHNESS PLANTS, WITH NOTES. By J. Greg 

 Nicolson. Trans. Edin. Bot. Soc., xxiii. pp. 41-45. 



MEASUREMENTS OF THE GREAT BEECH TREE AT NEWBATTLE 

 ABBEY, MIDLOTHIAN, 25 AUGUST 1903. By John Ramsay. 

 Hist. Benv. Nat. Club, xix. p. So. 



NOTE ON ARENARIA TENUIFOLIA, LINN., AS A SCOTTISH PLANT. 

 By W. W. Smith, M.A. Trans. Edin. Bot. Soc. xxiii. pp. 113-114. 



FRESHWATER ALG^: FROM THE ORKNEYS AND SHETLANDS. 

 By W. West, F.L.S., and Professor G. S. West, M.A., F.L.S. Trans. 

 Edin. Bot. Soc., xxiii. pp. 3-41, pis. i, 2. A very valuable paper, 

 with descriptions and figures of new species. 



A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DOMINANT PHANEROGAMIC AND 

 HIGHER CRYTOGAMIC FLORA OF AQUATIC HABIT, IN THREE LAKE 

 AREAS IN SCOTLAND. By George West. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 

 1904-5, vol. xxv. pp. 967-1023, 55 plates of photographs. A very 

 important contribution to Scottish Botany. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



THE EGGS OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE, INCLUDING ALL THE 

 SPECIES INHABITING THE WESTERN PAL^EARCTIC REGION. By 

 Henry E. Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S, etc. (London: The Author, 110 

 Cannon Street.) 



We have received Part 1. of this work, which, when completed, 

 will be regarded as a fitting corollary to the author's grand work on 

 the " Birds of Europe." Mr. Dresser has been experimenting for 

 some years with the three-colour process as applied to the delinea- 

 tion of bird's eggs, and has adopted that process for the reproduction 

 of his plates. There can be no doubt that if a high standard of 

 artistic excellence can be attained a photographic process has much 

 to recommend it, for it gives an absolutely faithful reproduction of 

 the egg to which it is applied. So far as the larger eggs are con- 

 cerned, it may at once be said that they are most excellent 

 absolutely faithful portraits of specimens carefully selected with a 

 view to illustrating the variation in size, form, and colour to be 

 found in the eggs of each species. When we come to the smaller 



