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wants to know. It is a book that will charm the young people, who are 

 usually such keen-eyed naturalists ; it will delight the collector of insects 

 who is beginning the hard study of entomology; and it will be found 

 of daily use by those who apply themselves to the pursuit of the economic 

 side of the science, and who therefore require to know something about 

 all sorts and conditions of insect life. We bespeak for it a wide circula- 

 tion, and we hope that it will lead many a student and collector to devote 

 himself to the less popular orders of insects, now that his way is made so 

 much easier and he has such an effective help for the identification and 

 classification of his specimens. 



The volume is illustrated with 48 plates from photographs of the 

 insects themselves. Twelve of these are coloured, and they are all so 

 clear and so beautifully printed that they can be examined with a magni- 

 fying glass in order to observe the details. There are also 264 illustrations 

 in the text, some, of course, familiar, but many new, and all well and 

 carefully drawn. We are especially pleased to notice that the figures on 

 the plates are clearly numbered in regular order, so that there is no need 

 of hunting over the page to find a number wanted, and the list of names 

 faces the picture and saves the necessity of turning over a page to discover 

 the titles of the insects depicted. C. J. S. B. 



Nature Biographies : The lives of some everyday Butterflies, Moths, 

 Grasshoppers and Flies. — By Clarence Moores Weed, D. Sc. New 

 York : Doubleday, Page & Co. One Vol., pp. 164. (Price, $1.50 

 net.) 

 We are glad that Dr. Weed has brought together in book form this 

 series of studies of insect life and has illustrated them so fully and so 

 beautifully with his own exquisite photographs. Some of them we read 

 originally in the pages of newspapers, where they could not be illustrated, 

 but they were nevertheless full of charm and interest. Now that they are 

 published together, and have 150 of the most clear and perfect photo- 

 graphic illustrations that we have ever seen to illuminate them, we 

 are sure that nature-lovers will read them with supreme delight. There 

 are fourteen of these studies — too many to enumerate here, but we may 

 mention particularly those entitled : The Making of a Butterfly, The 

 American Tent-Caterpillar, The Camera and the Entomologist, and 



