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Preserving" objects of Natural History in all departments. No. 101, for 

 May, 1873, is now before us ; it opens with an illustrated account of the 

 plant-crystals, Raphides, &c., by Prof. Gulliver ; then follows " Notes on 

 Collecting and Preserving Land and Fresh-Water Shells ; " " Records of 

 Rare Plants," the " Origin and Distribution of the Insects of the British 

 Isles," " Comparative Size of Animal Hairs," ' Gossip ' on Microscopy, 

 Zoology, Botany, Geology, &c. 



The Scottish Naturalist (Perth, Scotland) is an excellent quarterly 

 magazine of Zoology and Phytology, published by the Perthshire Society 

 of Natural History. With the number for January last the second volume 

 was commenced, and the size of the publication enlarged from 32 to 48 

 pages — a notable sign of progress. Among the articles of interest in the 

 last two numbers we may mention that on " The Occurrence of the 

 Hooded Seal at St. Andrews,'' by Mr. R. Walker ; " Memoirs on Scottish 

 TenthredinidaV' with a beautiful colored plate of Nematus gallicola, by 

 Mr. P. Cameron, jun. ; a paper by the Editor (Dr. F. Buchanan White) 

 on the extraordinary occurrence of Vanessa antiopa in Great Britain last 

 year; papers on Scottish Diptera, Spiders, Tortrices, Galls, &c, by various 

 authors ; an article on " Polarity in the Geological Distribution of 

 Genera," by the Rev. J. Wardrop ; and instalments of an excellent 

 " Insecta Scotia " — Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. We heartily wish the 

 publication the fullest success. 



Newman's Entomologist (London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co.) and 

 Zoologist (Van Voorst) — for which we are indebted to our friend Mr. Reeks 

 — continue to maintain their respective characters : the former as a 

 recorder of captures, varieties, ' exchanges/ &c. ; the latter chiefly as an 

 Ornithological magazine, though singularly enough, we always find in it the 

 fullest and best reports of the meetings of the Entomological Society of 

 London. 



The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (London : Van Voorst) appears 

 to us to be better maintained and of more general interest than formerly. 



From the authors we have received Notes on Chalcidice (Parts i to vii), 

 by Francis Walker, Esq. ; Note on a Chinese Artichoke Gall, by Albert 

 Muller, Esq. (from the Linnean Society's Journal) ; and two papers On 

 Modern Glacial Action in Canada, by the Rev. W. Bleasdell (from the 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society). 



Turning to this side of the Atlantic, we may notice first the Proceedings 

 and Transactions of the Nova Scotia n Institute of Natural Science (Part ii., 



