254 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



REPORTS OF MEETINGS OF THE BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' 

 CLUB FOR 1 902 (/. c. pp. 2 1 5-287). Notes some of the less common 

 plants observed at Cockburnspath (p. 225), at Stobbs (pp. 249-250), 

 at Dalwick House (pp. 251-252)^1 Thirlestane Castle (pp. 264-265). 



BOOK NOTICES. 



THREE SUMMERS AMONG THE BIRDS OF RUSSIAN LAPLAND. 

 By Henry J. Pearson. With History of Saint Triphon's Monastery 

 and Appendices. London : R. H. Porter, 1904. 



Next to the bird-life of their own islands, the avifauna of no 

 other lands has offered the same attractions to British ornithologists 

 as the continental countries lying to the north-east of our shores. 

 The reason for this is not far to seek, for these regions afford 

 nesting haunts for a great number of birds which periodically visit 

 our shores as winter guests or as birds of passage. Scandinavia 

 has now few secrets to disclose regarding her interesting summer 

 visitors, but it is otherwise with Russian Lapland, and ornithologists 

 of all countries are much indebted to Mr. Henry J. Pearson 

 for his valuable contribution to the birds of that inhospitable 

 and, to most, inaccessible region. This volume, as its title 

 indicates, is the result of three summers spent amid the wilds 

 bordering the Arctic Ocean, the Ukanskoe River, the Kanin 

 Peninsula, and of the interior of the country south of Kola. 

 Its chapters teem with interesting and original field notes on the 

 numerous species observed ; while the nature of the country they 

 frequent is graphically described by pen and camera. Pictorially 

 the book is probably the best of its kind that has ever been 

 produced, since it affords absolutely faithful pictures of Arctic 

 scenery, and of the sites of the nests of a number of species that are 

 not to be found elsewhere beautiful reproductions of no less than 

 sixty-eight excellent photographs. A useful appendix affords, in 

 tabulated form, a complete list of the birds of Russian Lapland, a 

 hundred and eighty-two in number, culled from various sources, 

 together with their distribution in the various districts and remarks. 



Mr. Pearson is to be highly complimented on the excellent work 

 he has accomplished, and on the appearance of the handsome 

 volume in which his investigations are recorded. It is one of the 

 best books ever written on the ornithology of Northern Europe. 



PARADISI IN SOLE PARADISUS TERRESTRIS. By John Parkinson. 

 Faithfully reprinted from the edition of 1629. (Methuen and Co., 

 1904.) 



To all interested in gardens this re-issue of one of the most 



