60 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Handbook of the Natural History of Glasgow and the West 

 of Scotland (Glasgow, Sept. 1901). All interested in the Natural 

 History of Scotland must feel grateful to those who, as members of 

 the Editing Committee, or as monographers of any of the numerous 

 sections into which the Botany, Zoology, and Geology of the West of 

 Scotland was divided, have rendered accessible so great an addition 

 to previous records. A comparison with the similar volume issued 

 in connection with the meeting of the British Association in Glasgow 

 in 1876 shows how great progress has been made in the study of 

 many of the groups treated of. On another page (62) the names 

 of the various botanical lists are enumerated, with the names of their 

 writers. That much labour has been carefully and usefully expended 

 is evident to even a passing glance, and becomes still more so when 

 the monographs are more carefully looked into. That the quality 

 of the work is somewhat unequal is of course inevitable where so 

 many have shared in it, and printers' errors are also inevitable where 

 such work must be done in a brief time ; but these are but slight 

 blemishes in a valuable contribution to the natural history of Scot- 

 land. It may be noted that botanists may find interest in some of 

 the lists of insects, more especially of those that injure or gall plants. 

 The CeridomyidcR (gall-midges) are enumerated on pp. 258-259; 

 but the Cynipidiz (gall-flies) and their allies are omitted, although 

 Mr. Cameron's researches had made the district classic ground for 

 their study in Scotland, and the Eriophyida (gall-mites) also have 

 not found a place. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The Titles and Purport of Papers and Notes relating to Scottish Natural 

 History which have appeared during the Quarter October-December 1901. 



[The Editors desire assistance to enable them to make this Section as complete as 

 possible. Contributions on the lines indicated will be most acceptable and 

 will bear the initials of the Contributor. The Editors will have access to the 

 sources of information undermentioned.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM SHETLAND. T. Edmondston 

 Saxby. Zoologist (4), vol. v. p. 391 (October 1901). Notes on 

 the Chaffinch, Redstart, Nightjar, Great Skua, Great Black-backed 

 Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, and Spotted Crake. 



ROLLER IN SCOTLAND. H. A. B. H. The Field, i2th October 

 1901, p. 601. Refers to a specimen shot at Tyninghame, Preston- 

 kirk, in September 1897. 



SOLITARY SNIPE IN RENFREWSHIRE. Walter J. Marshall. The 

 Field, 28th September 1901, p. 534. Specimen shot on 

 September on the estate of Pollok Castle. 



