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Taxidermy made Easy; "being Plain and Practical Directions for Preserving, 

 Setting up, and Embellishing in the most approved style, all kinds of 

 Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, etc., loith Notes and Illus- 

 trations. By John Tyrer. Taxidermist, Chatham, Kent. Price 2s. 6d. 

 Sold at 52, High Holborn, London. 



I REMEMBER, many years ago, seeing this book, or some one with a 

 similar title, adverted to, and being puzzled at the time to know what 

 ^'Taxidermy" meant. Miss Edgeworth, in one of her works, observes that 

 there may possibly be within the compass of the civilized world, though 

 no school-boy will believe in the possibility, some individual so barbarously 

 ignorant as not to know the meaning of the word fag; she accordingly gives 

 the unlearned the meaning, as derived from the Latin fatigo — to weary. 

 As there may, in like manner, be some one ignorant, in common with 

 myself once, of the meaning of the present word, I beg leave to state that 

 it is derived from two Greek words — tasso — to set in order, and derma — a 

 skin. The title, then, of the book bespeaks the nature of its contents; 

 and I have only further to observe that there are many valuable receipts 

 given in its pages, and instructions in the art. Mr. Tyrer is evidently no 

 Tyro in it. 



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The London Working Entomologists' Society held their second meeting 

 this season on Wednesday Feb. 6th., at 52, High Holborn, R. G, Schofield, 

 Esq. Vice-President, in the chair, when Edward Newman, Esq. was elected 

 a member. 



A new and novel description of larva box was exhibited; also two 

 boxes of Insects captured last season; among them were a few novelties. 



Hips and Bates. — What are Hips? The ripe fruit of the rose is so 

 called. The Conserve of Hips (Conserva Rosce Canince) of the apothecary 

 is made from the pulp of the Hips, deprived of the hairs and boiled with 

 sugar. — 'J. P. Pernie, Kimbolton, March 1st., 1856. 



"Hips and Haivs." — What are Hips? — The question asked in "The 

 Naturalist" for the present month is answered in that volume which is a 

 compendium of all philosophy, of many facts, and of not a little natural 

 history — Shakspere. In "Timon of Athens," (Act iv. Scene 3,) that noble 

 Athenian rebukes the thieves, when they plead want, by reminding them — 



