298 The Scottish Naturalist. 



(/) " Eccentricities of Animals." Messrs. Seeley, 1872. 



(m) " Lights and Shadows in a Canine Life ;" being the 

 Biography of a Dog called " Ugly." The life and 

 travels of a Scotch terrier — the author being a lady, 

 according to the reviewers. Simpkin & Marshall, 

 London, 1872. 



Besides Miss Cobbe and Miss Buist, many ladies have written 

 books — mostly for the young — treating of the Virtues — the 

 lovable qualities — of our Domestic animals. Such authoresses 

 include Mary Howitt, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Mrs. Charles Bray, Mrs. 

 C. L. Balfour, and Miss Eliza Meteyard. 



(;/) "Histoire critique de 1' Ame des Betes:" a work 

 said to be in more than one volume. 



(0) " On the Future Existence of the Animal Creation:" 

 a work said to have been published in Edinburgh 

 in 187 1, according to the "Animal World " (vol. ii. 

 p. 106). But reference is probably intended to the 

 following quaint work of the late Peter Buchan — 

 " Scriptural and Philosophical Arguments, or 

 Cogent Proofs from Reason and Revelation, 

 that Brutes have Souls, and that their Souls are 

 Immortal ; " published by Lewis Smith, Aberdeen, 

 1824. 



The said Peter Buchan is better known as the author of 

 " Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland," which, 

 with others of his works, are now being republished in new 

 editions by his son. Peter was a native of Peterhead, and 

 died in 1854 in London, aged 74. 



(p) " Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." 



London, i860. 

 (</) " The Elephant," one of " Knight's Weekly 



Volumes," published in London, in or about 1844-5, 



by the late well-known publisher and author, Charles 



Knight. 

 (r) " The Knowsley Menagerie : " a description of the 



Animals in the collection of former Earls of Derby. 



1850. 

 (s) "The Dog," by " Idstone," 121110. London, 1872. 



These Noms de plume are no improvement on the absence 

 of an author's name ; for there is just as great and no greater 



