250 liEVIEWS. 



The vSouth London Entomological and Natural 

 Hlstory Society. 



This Society consists of loi members, 52 of which were added 

 last year. Tlie financial position of the Society is also highly 

 satisfactory. The report before us contains the Presidential 

 Address by Robert Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., and an abstract of pro- 

 ceedings at the general meetings, from which we gather that 

 objects exhibited were well described by their exhibitors and fully 

 discussed, but that no papers were read, 



IRCViCWCn 



A Guide to Elementary Chemistry for Beginners. By Le 



Ray C. Cooley, Ph.D. Crown 8vo, pp. xv. — 300. (New Yurk : Ivison, 

 Blakeman, Taylor, and Co. 1886.) 



In the work before us the author tells us he has made " a judicious selec- 

 tion of the most fundamental facts and principles of chemistry, and to present 

 these in such a way that the student must constantly use his senses to discover 

 facts, his reason in drawing correct inferences from the data he collects, and 

 good English in expressing accurately what he sees and thinks." In the 

 course of experiments, the meclianical operations are described in minute 

 detail. The book treats in a lucid manner on Chemical Changes ; the Che- 

 mistry of Combustion, of Water, and of the Atmosphere ; Compounds of 

 Is'itrogcn, Hydrogen, and Oxygen ; The Composition of Plants ; Elements, 

 Molecules, and Atoms ; Acids, etc. ; Phosphorus ; Silicon and the Carbon 

 Group ; The Metals, etc. The book is plainly written and well illustrated. 



Notes on Histological Methods, including a Brief Con- 

 sideration of the Methods of Pathological and Vegetable His'I'ology 

 and the Application of the Microscope to Jurisprudence. 8vo, pp. 56. 



Notes on Microscopical Methods. 8vo, pp. 32. Both by 



J^inion II. Gage, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Lecturer on Microsco- 

 ]-)ical Technology. (Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. : Andrus and Church. 1885 — 

 6, 18S6— 7.) 



These notes were written for the use of the students engaged in the 

 Laboratory of the Anatomical Department of the C^ornell University, and in 

 their pages will be found ccmdensed a large amount of most valual;le informa- 

 tion. ■ 



Elements of Botany, including Organography, Vegetable 



Histology, Vegetable Physiology, Vegetable Taxonomy, and a Glossary of 

 Botanical Terms, illustrated by nearly 500 engravings from drawings by the 

 Author. P.y Edson S. Pastin, A.M., F.R.^I.S. Royal Svo, pp. xv. — 2S2. 

 (Chicago, U.S.A. : G. P. I'jigelhard and Co. 1SS7.) 



This will prove a valuable book in the hands of the student. The author 

 has endeavoured to make it leach as much as possible by illustrations, the 



