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OBITUARY NOTICES OF DR. F. BUCHANAN WHITE. Proc. 

 Perthsh. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii. part iii. pp. xiv.-xlvi. and Iv.-lxvi. With a 

 portrait, and enumeration of his very numerous contributions to the 

 work of the Perthshire Society. 



THE ROBERT BROWN MEMORIAL. Journ. JBot., 1896, pp. 

 26-29. Gives an account of the unveiling of a bust of the celebrated 

 botanist (gifted to his native town of Montrose by Miss Hope Paton, 

 on 1 8th Oct. 1895), with extracts from the speech of Mr. Carruthers, 

 F.R.S., and a good woodcut of the bust. 



REVIEWS. 



PERIPATUS. By Adam Sedgwick. MYRIAPODS. By F. G. Sinclair 

 (formerly F. G. Heathcote). INSECTS. Part I. By D. Sharp. 

 Being Vol. V. of the " Cambridge Natural History," edited by S. F. 

 Harmer and A. E. Shipley. 8vo. pp. xi. and 587. 371 Figures 

 in text, and a Map. (London: Macmillan, 1895.) Price 173. 

 net. 



This volume is the first in appearance, though second in order 

 of three to be devoted to the Arthropods in the attractive Cam- 

 bridge Series. By far the larger part is occupied by the first instal- 

 ment of Dr. Sharp's account of the Insects, of which little can be 

 said except in praise. It is the more to be regretted that serious 

 blemishes, which might easily have been avoided, mar the short 

 contributions of Messrs. Sedgwick and Sinclair. 



Mr. Sedgwick is better qualified than any man in the country to 

 write upon the Peripats, and it is needless to state that his account 

 of the anatomy and development of these remarkable animals is 

 complete and trustworthy, though marred for the general reader by 

 a liberal use of unexplained technical terms. The figures, mostly 

 from his own memoirs, are excellent, and a map of the distribution 

 of the group is welcome. But the systematic portion of the chapter 

 had far better have been omitted. It shows a deplorable neglect of 

 recent work, and seems indeed to have been copied from the author's 

 monograph of 1888, as the name of a species described at that time 

 still bears the affix "n. sp." 



Mr. Sinclair writes in an attractive style on Myriapods, and the 

 student or the amateur will gain from his pages a fair knowledge of 

 the structure and development of those animals. But for some 

 inscrutable reason, the author deliberately neglects the work of recent 

 writers such as Bollman, Pocock, and Lotzel on the classification of 

 the group, and adopts the largely obsolete system of Koch. This is 

 a very serious fault, and naturally leads one to inquire what the 

 editors could have been about to allow such uneven treatment in a 



