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proached and found it had eaten the 

 eyes out of a queen water snake which 

 measured nine inches. This is cer- 

 tainly unusual. 



Wishing" you success, I am. 

 Very truly yours, 



T. I. "Henry, M. D. 



Rambles With John Burroughs. By R. J. H. 



De Loach. Boston: Richard G. Badger. 

 An interesting series of essays on the life 

 and works of the great naturalist by a friend 

 who says: "My personal contact with John 

 Burroughs has meant a great deal to me, 

 and these papers represent in a measure 

 what I have enjoyed." 



British Journal Photo Almanac 1912. New 



York: George Murphy, Inc., Sole Sales 



Agent, 57 East Ninth Street. 

 This many paged book contains much in- 

 teresting matter and also some articles that 

 are of value to photographers. It is valuable 

 especially in giving good idea of British 

 make of cameras. 



A Window in A ready. By Charles Francis 

 Saunders. Illustrated from photographs 

 by Herbert Troth. Philadelphia: The 

 Biddle Press. 

 This contains many valuable suggestions 

 to the naturalist and is beautifully illustra- 

 ted. Though written somewhat in the form 

 of a diary it is not merely of the ordinary, 

 personal emotion but really says things help- 

 ful and instructive to others. 



One Hundred Lessons in Agriculture with 

 Practical Problems. By Aretas W. Nolan, 

 A. M. Chicago: Row, Peterson & Com- 

 pany. 

 The author has wisely selected from the 

 vast field of agricultural knowledge and 

 practice such subject-matter, materials, and 

 methods as will be available in the schools. 

 He says: "The fields, the pastures, the 

 groves, the orchards, and the gardens, are 

 the real text-books, — this book is only a 

 'friendly guide-post.' " 



The Microscope. By Simon Henry Gage. 

 Ithaca, New York: Comstock Publish- 

 ing Company. 

 This eleventh edition has been revised and 

 is fully up-to-date. It is the standard com- 

 plete handbook of instruction regarding the 

 use of the microscope. It is heartily rec- 

 ommended to our readers. 



The Star Poeket-Book. By R. Weatherhead, 

 Naval Instructor, R. N. New York: 

 Longmans, Green, & Company. 

 This is a convenient little handbook for 

 learning the principal constellations and 

 stars. The plates are clear and give only 

 the principal stars to be observed and, there- 

 fore, are not confusing. 



Spiders. By Cecil Warburton, M. A. New 

 York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 

 A delightful English handbook of spiders 

 that contain many good suggestions for our 

 American students. 



Distribution and Origin of Life in America. 



By Robert Francis Scharff, Ph. D., B. Sc. 



New York: The Macmillan Company. 

 While these lectures were originally de- 

 livered at the Victoria and Albert Museum 

 in London, they are well adapted to the gen- 

 eral reader, and contain several very inter- 

 esting chapters, notably those regarding the 

 national game preserves and the fauna and 

 Mora of various localities. 



Agricultural Education in The Public Schools. 



By Benjamin M. Davis. Chicago: The 



University of Chicago Press. 170 pages, 



8vo. cloth; net $1.00, postpaid $1.12. 



This is not, as perhaps the title implies, a 



text-book for education in the public schools, 



but is a resume of what has been done along 



various lines. It is a convenient check list 



whereby students in the normal school may 



have suggestions of lines of work. 



The Warblers of North America. By Frank 

 M. Chapman, with the co-operation of 

 other ornithologists. New York: D. 

 Appleton & Company. 

 It is easy to learn to know a robin or a 

 blue jay or a crow, but the warblers are the 

 puzzle. Aye, there is the rub. Who can 

 solve the name of these delightful bird 

 sprites of the woods? To their intimate ac- 

 quaintance this extensive monograph is a 

 decided aid. The warbler family is the 

 source of more queries in identification of 

 birds than is any other family. We cordially 

 recommend this book to our readers. 



The Migration of Birds. By T. A. Coward. 

 New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 

 This gives a summary of the theory and 

 speculation and actual knowledge regarding 

 the migration of birds. It is a convenient 

 and helpful little handbook. The chapters 

 are regarding the cause and origin, routes, 

 height and speed of flight, distances, perils, 

 early ideas, suggestions and guesses, etc. 



A Nature Study Guide. By W. S. Furneaux, 

 F. R. G. S. New York: Longmans, Green, 

 and Company. 

 We are glad to have this book by a well- 

 known naturalist not only for its intrinsic 

 merits but to show the activity of the schools 

 of England in nature interests. The material 

 is well arranged and contains many excellent 

 suggestions. 



The Flight of Birds. By F. W. Headley, M. 



B. O. U. 326 High Holborn, London: 



Witherby & Company. 

 In these days of attempts at machine flying 

 it is a good suggestion that the author of 

 this book has offered to come back to the 

 only really successful flying machines — that 

 is, the birds. He has produced a book not 

 only of interest from the machine point of 

 view, but from the ornithological as well. 



