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List of pArERS. 

 Mosses of the Isle of Man. Phyf., 1657. 

 Muscologia Hibernica. Phyt., 1S57. 

 Muscology of Colin Glen. Phy/., 1861. 

 flosses from North East of Ireland. /. A\il., 1900. 

 A new British Moss, Ditrichuni vaginalis, in Ireland. /. Nai.y 1901. 

 Some Mosses in Northern Ireland. /. Nat,^ 1902. 

 Weissia rosiellata in Ireland. /. Nat., 1902. 

 Moss Notes from North of Ireland. /. Nal., 1904. 

 Mosses from Co. Down. /. Nat., 1905. 

 Bryological Notes from Co. Down. /. Nat., 1907. 



H. W. L. 



REVIEWS. 



A ZOOLOGICAL PICTURE BOOK. 

 The Animals and their Story. By W. Percivai, Westei.1., F.L.S., 

 M.B.O.U. With 100 photographs and 8 coloured plates, by W. S. 

 Berridge, F.Z.S. Pp. 322. London : Robert Cully. Price 5^, net. 



There seems no end to the making of " popular " books on na- 

 tural history, and the volume before us is a fair example of its class. 

 The photographs, taken in the London "Zoo," are in most cases excel- 

 lent, in many instances beautiful, while the plates are admirable ex- 

 amples of the three-colour process. The letterpress is divided into four 

 chapters, entitled respectively " Denizens of the Forest and Jungle," 

 *' Denizens of the Plains and Deserts,"' " Denizens of the Hills and Moun- 

 tains," and '• Prowlers of the Night." This arrangement does not conduce 

 to systematic study of the Mammalia — to which class the book is 

 confined — but it affords the author an opportunity of telling pleasantly 

 many stories of wild and captive beasts, and culling accounts of their 

 habits from the writings of Lydekker, Hudson, Selous, and others- 



When Mr. Westell discusses questions of classification and distribution, 

 he frequently writes so as to mislead the ignorant reader seriously. 

 The statement on p. 123 implies that Bovidse are absent from Southern 

 Europe and Asia, and on the next page we are told that animals of this 

 family were " introduced into the great African Continent in compara- 

 tively recent times." It is to be presumed that " comparatively recent " 

 is used in a geological sense, but, then, how are we to understand the 

 statement (p. 62), that the Puma " is an ancient animal, as fossil remains 

 have been discovered which, it is stated, probably belong to the Pleis- 

 tocene period " .^ And the meaning of the following passage — descrip- 

 tive of the jungle-haunting Carnivora — is too deep for our zoological 

 philosophy: "creatures who are famous for their hunting powers, 

 creatures who possessing .sharp teeth and sharp claws (known as the 

 law of correlation, and for information upon which we are very largely 

 indebted to the French naturalist Cuvier), live by means of stalking and 

 tearing to pieces their prey." 



G. H. C. 



