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Myriapoda: Lithobius forficatus, L., two, one adult, the other 

 young. 



Crustacea: Porcellio dilatatus, Brandt, and P. scaber, Latr., 

 two examples of each — one of the first form has been submitted to 

 the Rev. Canon Norman, and he considers that it is correctly 

 determined; Cylisticus convexus, De G., one not quite full grown. 

 P. dilatatus appears to be an addition to the list of Scottish 

 "slaters." 



Worms: two small Lumbricids, but too ill-preserved for 

 identification. 



It is interesting to recall that Stainton in his Tineina (p. 27) 

 has recorded the occurrence, in abundance, of Tinea ferrngincUa in 

 a coal-mine near Glasgow in 1849; and that in the Zoologist 

 for i860 Dr R. H. Meade recorded the spider Neriene errans (now 

 Porrhonnna microphthalmum) from a coal-pit at Pelton, Durham. — 

 William Evans, Edinburgh. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



A Summer on the Yenesei. By Maud D. Haviland. London, 191 5 : 

 E. Arnold. Price los. 6d. net. 



In her latest work, Miss Haviland gives a very charming account of 

 her visit to Siberia in the summer of 1914. With three companions she 

 spent two months at Golchika to discover as much as possible of the 

 bird life of the Tundras. Neither Messrs Seebohm nor Popham found 

 the Curlew Sandpiper nesting around Golchika. Miss Haviland was 

 however more fortunate in this respect. Not only did she succeed in 

 finding a nest of this species, but also secured the young in down. 

 She attributes this to the fact that the summer of 19 14 was very late and 

 cold ; thus the birds bred further south than is their usual habit. This 

 was perhaps the most important result of her visit to these far northern 

 climes ; but in addition she made many interesting observations on Grey 

 and Red-necked Phalaropes, Little Stints, Eastern Golden Plovers, Grey 

 Plovers, etc. One cannot help wishing that more time could have been 

 devoted to the wooded districts along the river to the south of Golchika ; 

 many interesting observations might have been made there. As it was, 

 Miss Haviland was obliged to snatch but a few brief hours while the 

 steamer was unloading, and the notes she gives of what she saw make 

 us long for more. Besides its interest to ornithologists, the book has 

 much in it to attract the general reader. Miss Haviland has the pen 



