icjro. Reviews. "59 



C. Druce (hb. Druce)— Antrim, Sallagh Braes, 1897, C. H. Waddell (hb. 

 C. E. Salmon). 



To touch on a point of nomenclature, it should be noted that the name 



A. minor Huds, has been substituted in the monograph for A. fiilicaiilis 



Buser applied by E. F. Linton in the Irish Naturalist in 1900, to what 



was then and still remains by far the most widely distributed in Ireland 



of the three forms which occur there. This change is justified by Dr. 



Lindberg in a passage on p. 22 of which the following is a rendering : — 



•' I have adopted Hudson's name for A. filkaiilis Buser var. vestita 



because Hudson meant to refer to the hirsute form. This appears 



partly from his use of the words /<?/m sericeis, which cannot apply to 



A. filicatilis Buser, parti}- from the fact that this hairy form is the only 



one which occurs in England, while the smooth form, in the British 



area, is only to be found in a few places, as in North Scotland." 



Having dealt thus fully with the first and second sections of the mono- 

 graph, little space is left for the discussion of the concluding or general 

 section, although this may probably prove the most interesting of all to 

 many students of distribution, since it deals with the migrations of the 

 various forms into Fennoscandia. In this section the author necessaril}' 

 traverses wide fields of speculation where glimpses are caught of that 

 old Littorina Sea which once rolled over the low-lying coasts of the 

 Baltic and the Gulf of Bothnia. While adopting as tiue for southern 

 Sweden the view of Nathorst and Areschoug, that its older flora arrived 

 there from the southward on the melting of the ice sheet, he considers 

 such an origin doubtful for the alpine flora of northern Scandinavia* 

 In support of this view he discusses the probable migration path of 

 A. glomeruiansy the most distinctively arctic and alpine of the Alchemilla 

 segregates and wide-spread in Lapland, Greenland and Iceland. 



Dr. Lindberg is to be congratulated on the production of a work 

 which is destined to become an indispensable text-book for all who study 

 this diflicult and interesting plant group. His Northern Alchemilla 

 vulgaris Forms is in all respects a worthy addition to the Transactions of 

 the Finnish Society which has done so much to further the cause of 

 Natural History in Northern Europe, 



N. C. 



THE EAGLE'S NEST. 



The Home-Life of a Golden Haggle. Photographed and described 

 by H. B. Macpherson. London : Witherby and Co., 1909. pp. 45, 

 32 plates. Price, 5^. net. 



It will be hard to beat Mr. Macpherson's wonderful achievement. 

 Whether we consider the extreme wariness of the subjects chosen, or the 

 inaccessibility of the nesting place— a narrow ledge on the G:(\git of a 

 Grampian precipice — or the severity of the Scottish wreath er during the 

 Spring of 1909, or the length of time (eleven weeks) during which the 

 nest was under constant observation, our appreciation of the admirable 

 results attained can hardly be over-estimated. For the first time the 

 domestic details of the early life of a Golden Eagle are fully revealed. 



