HARDWICKE'S SC I E N CE-GOSS IP. 



Ou liedjje-banks near Tlieire : — 

 Euryiichmm Stcarzii. 

 Scleropodium illecebrum. 



In the marsh on Kestou Comiion : — 

 Spluiguuiii molluscum and others. 

 Caiiipylopus torfaceus. 



In a small pond ou Shirley Common :— 

 Bartraniia fontana. 

 llypnum aduncuni. 



I have not explored any other metropolitan dis- 

 trict, and should be glad to know, for my own and 

 general information, if any interesting species have 

 been found elsewhere. T. Howse, F.L.S. 



over every-day life. We feel that we ourselves are 

 writing for readers in Natural Science, many of 

 whom owe tlieir " conversion " to Mr. Wood. The 

 announcement, therefore, of a new work from his 

 pen cannot fail to interest the reading public, espe- 

 cially as it appears in the height of the " reading 

 season." The additional information that this work 

 is occupied with a subject which is the author's fa- 

 vourite study— Entomology— will raise expectation 

 still higher. " When Greek joins Greek, then comes 

 the tug of war." There is something in cutting 

 the leaves of a handsome volume like that before 

 us, embellished with upwards of seven hundred 

 figures, and occupying nearly seven hundred pages 



Fig. 10. \. Gonepteryx libatrix. 2. Culucula nupta. 3. Rumia crata^gdta : a, Goni:}iteryx,\&v\-d ; i, liumia 



crat^egata, larva. 



"INSECTS AT HOME"* 



Tj^EW writers have done more to popularize 

 -■- Natural History than the Rev. J. G. AVood. 

 He has the art of attracting readers towards a sub- 

 ect they perhaps never cared about before, solely 

 by showing them how earnest he is in its study 

 himself, and what a charm its pursuit can throw 



• "Insects at Home; being a popular Account of British 

 Insects." By the Rev. J. G. Wood, F.L.S., &c. London : 

 Longmans, Green, & Co. 1872. 



Iq its decsriptions of insects of every kind, from the 

 beetle to the common house-fly ! 



There are two ways of criticising a book of this 

 kind, — from a popular scientific aspect, and also 

 from a purely technical point of view. In adopting 

 the former, we unhesitatingly avow our belief that 

 "Insects at Home" will be a godsend to many a 

 young entomologist. The various groups of insects 

 have their anatomy illustrated, part by part, by 

 some familiar type, as the accompanying plates 

 (kindly lent us by the publishers) will best show : — 



