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abridged form in another part of our issue, this pamphlet also 

 contains a paper on tlie Value of American Timber Lands, by 

 Franklin B. Hough ; another on the same topic by F, P. Baker ; 

 one " On the Preservation of Forests on the Head Waters of 

 Streams," by M. C. Eead ; and another on " The Distribution of 

 North American Forest Trees," by Dr. George Vasey. Never in 

 forty-eight pages have we found such an amount of forestal fact 

 and arGfument. 



The Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science : The Journal of the 

 Postal Microscojncal Society. Published Quarterly. Edited by 

 Alfred Allex. April. London : Bailliere, Tindall, & Co.x. 



Chironomus j^^'^^fsi^ius, a very connnon denizen of our ponds, 

 water-butts, etc., is minutely described by Mr. Hammond, who, 

 moreover, elucidates verbal details of structural appearance under 

 the microscope by two beautiful lithographs. The tyro is put in 

 the way of knowing that the question. What is a plant ? has from 

 recent researches become invested with a new interest ; he is told 

 how to use the microscope, and introduced into new mysteries of 

 animal metamorphosis and pond life. Altogether, the solitary 

 student of science will find this an adlnirable eighteenpence worth. 

 Indeed, a few years since he might have had to pay double for an 

 inferior bill of fare. 



Eighth Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farni 

 Pests during the Year 1884, ivith Methods of Prevention and 

 Eemcdy. By Eleanor A. Ormekod, F.Pi. Met. Soc, etc. ; Hon. 

 Consulting Entomologist of the Eoyal Agricultural Society ; 

 Hon. and Corr. Mem. of Ptoyal Ag. and Hort. Soc, S. Australia 

 etc. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1885. 



This annual volume has now come to be one of the events of the 

 agricultural and arbori cultural year, whose publication is anticipated 

 and heralded by the community of general and special journals, 

 from the Times downwards. We do not now propose further to 

 analyze this publication, as we make a considerable extract under a 

 si)ecial department, and shall again recur to it. In the interval, 

 our readers should not miss the opportunity of studying its interest- 

 ing and important pages for themselves. 



