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Old Edinburgh Pedlars, Beggars, and Criminals. 



Old Edinburgh Beaux and Belles. Post 8vo, pp. 107, 112. 



(Edinburgh : Wm. Paterson. 1886.) Price is. each. 



Two very amusing books, illustrated with quaint engravings of the various 

 characters described. 



Scottish Jests and Anecdotes. Collected by Robert 



Chambers. i6mo, pp. 252. (Edinburgh: ^Yilliam Paterson. 1S86.) Price is. 

 One of a series of entertaining books known as " Nuggets for Travellers." 

 Many of the anecdotes are exceedingly witty, and all are amusing. ' 



Diet in Relation to Age and Activity. By Sir H. 

 Thompson, F.R.C.S. (London : Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 1886.) 

 Price IS. 



A reprint, with a few additions, of a paper which appeared in the Nine- 

 teenth Century a short time ago. The author tells us that he has been com- 

 pelled to accept the conclusion that more mischief in the form of actual 

 disease, of impaired vigour, and of shortened life, accrues to civilised man in 

 our own country from erroneous habits of eating than from the habitual use of 

 alcoholic drink, considerable as he knows that habit to be. 



Good Things of Life. 

 More Good Things of Life. 



(Glasgow: David Bryce and Son. 1886.) Price is. each. 



These are not good things in the way of eating and drinking, as from the 

 titles we were led to suppose, but consist each of about 60 very laughable 

 sketches. 



Current Botes an& nDemoran&a. 



Notice to the Members of the Postal Microscopical 



Society. — The Annual Meeting of the vSociety will be held at the Holborn 

 Restaurant, High Holborn, on Thursday, October 7th, at 6 o'clock p.m. It is 

 hoped that a large number of members will attend. When the official business is 

 concluded a dinner will be served at 7.30, to wliich members of the Society may 

 invite their friends. We may remark that this is the only opportunity afforded for 

 the members of distant branches of the Society to meet each other. 



We have pleasure in stating that we have received the first and 



second parts of Mr. Cole's very excellent Studies in Microscopical Scie7ice. These, 

 like the last volume, are divided into four sections. Section i is devoted to 

 Botanical Histology, subject Vegetable Physiology, and treats of — i. The 

 vegetable cell. 2. The cell wall : its modifications and physical properties ; 

 illustrated by a section through the apex of the stem of fig, and a section of stem 

 of Clematis vitalba. Section 2 relates to Animal Histology, and is illustrated by a 

 section of the Mammalian Testis, and Spermatozoa of the Vertebrata. Section 3 

 treats of Pathological Histology, the subjects being the Normal Kidney and Con- 

 gestion of the Kidney. Section 4, Popular Histology, the stibject chosen being the 

 Sea Fans, illustrated by slides of Spicules of Corgonia Jlabellaia and Tlivone 

 papulosa. The slides are in Mr. A. C. Cole's best style. Intending subscribers 

 should send in their names at once to Messrs. flammond and Co., 136, Edmund 

 Street, Birmingham. 



