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Journal of Morphology. Edited by C. O. Whitman, with 



the co-operation of Edward I'helps Allis, jun. No. 2 ; pp. 193. (London: 

 W. P. Collins, Great Portland Street. Boston, U.S.A. : Ginn and Co.) 



The second part (completing Vol. I.), 419 pp., is just to hand. It contains 

 five valuable papers, which treat of the Kinetic Phenomena of the Egg during 

 -Maturation and Fecundation (Ookinesis), by the editor, C. O. Whitman ; The 

 Embryology of Petromyzon, by Dr. W. B. Scott, of Princeton College, N.J. ; 

 a contribution to the Embryology of the Lizard, by Dr. Henry Orr, of Prince- 

 ton, N.J. ; The Foetal Membranes of the Marsupials, by Dr. IL F. Osborn, 

 of Princeton, N.J. ; and Some Observations on the Mental Powers of Spiders, 

 by George W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham, of Milwaukee, Wis. There are 7 

 double and 3 single plates. Prof. C. O. Whitman has been for many years 

 editor of the microscopical section of the American Na/icralist. We feel that 

 we cannot say too much in praise of this work. 



The Origin of Floral Structures through Insect and other 

 Agencies. By the Rev. George Henslow, ^LA., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc. Crown 

 8vo, pp. xix. — 349. (London : Kegan, Paul, Trench, and Co.) Price 5s. 



This is the sixty-fourth volume of the Liternational Scientific Series. The 

 author thinks we must look to the environment as furnishing the influences 

 which induce plants to vary in response to them. His object has been to 

 endeavour to refer every part of the structures of flowers to some one or more 

 definite causes arising from the environment taken in its widest sense. The 

 book contains eighty-eight illustrations. 



Nature's Fairyland ; or, Rambles by Woodland, Meadow, 



Stream, and Shore. By H. W. S. Worsley-Benison, F.L.S., etc. Crown 8vo, 

 pp. viii.^232. (London : Elliott Stock. 1888.) Price 5s. 



We have read few books which have afforded us greater pleasure than the 

 volume now before us. That Mr. Worsley-Benison is a thorough and "all- 

 round " naturalist is plainly shown in the twenty-one chapters of which the 

 book is composed. These treat of widely different subjects. For instance, 

 we find four or five chapters on Botanical subjects, two or three on Spiders, 

 others on Waves, Rambles on the Dorset Coast, Fishes, The House- Fly's 

 Story told by herself, etc. We would strongly urge any young person about to 

 commence the study of botany to read carefully the three chapters entitled 

 " From Root to Flower," " Out among the Gorse," and " Companions of the 

 Corn." These chapters give, in a peculiarly interesting manner, some import- 

 ant facts in plant anatomy, told in a style which will engrave itself on the 

 mind of the student. All lovers of Nature will do well to read this book. 

 Its subjects are well varied and most interesting. 



Forms of Animal Life : A Manual of Comparative Ana- 

 tomy, with descriptions of Selected Types. By the late George RoUeston, 

 D.M., F.R.S. Second edition, revised and enlarged by W. Hatchett Jackson, 

 M.A. Royal 8vo, pp. xxxii. — 937. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. London: 

 Henry Frowde. 1888.) 



This edition was taken in hand by the late Prof. Rolleston in the Long 

 Vacation of 1879, and was carried on by him until he left England in Dec, 

 18S0, by which time he had completed the descriptions of Preparations I — 9, 

 and 3 new plates had been engraved under his direction. The distinctive cha- 

 racter of this book, as described in the preface to the first edition, consists in 



