48 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Report on the Immigration of Summer Residents in the 

 Spring of 1910, also Notes on the Migratory Move- 

 ments during the Autumn of 1909, Bull. Brit. Orn. 

 Club., Vol. XXVIII. ; 6s. net. 



Like its predecessors, this Report contains much valuable and 

 interesting information on migration. It deals with the arrival 

 of our summer residents in 1910, and also with the migratory 

 movements which occurred in the autumn of 1909. The spring 

 records refer mainly to England, but in the autumn section a 

 good many Scottish occurrences are noted, evidently taken from 

 the Annals of Scottish Natural History. Unfortunately in several 

 cases the dates have been misquoted; for instance, those for the 

 Yellow-browed Warblers on the Isle of May, given as 30th September 

 and 27th October, should read 2nd October and 27th September; 

 while the Fair Isle records of the same species should be between 

 28th September and 4th October, not 28th October and 4th 

 November. There are several other inaccuracies of the same 

 description; but otherwise this Report is quite up to the high 

 standard of those of the same series which have already been pub- 

 lished, and is worthy of being carefully studied. — E. V. B. and L. J. R. 



Evolution, by Prof. J. A. Thomson and Prof. P. Geddes, pp. 256. 

 Williams & Norgate (Home University Library) ; is. net. 



No study is more likely to bear rich fruit in the progress of 

 mankind than that of Evolution ; and in the neat little book are 

 contained the essentials for an introduction to that study. The 

 evidences of the eternal unfolding of plant and animal life, its 

 significance and its processes, are described with the utmost 

 conciseness and in the clearest of language. Nor is the evolution 

 of the Evolution Theory forgotten, for again we read of Darwin's 

 epoch-making investigations, and of the work of his predecessors 

 and successors, down even to the theories of Prof. Bergson. 

 The volume is characterised especially by its social standpoint; 

 and the suggestiveness of its treatment of the evolution of human 

 society need only be instanced by the remark, that the fine 

 independence and stability of the village and clan life of Scotland 

 or of Norway may be in great part due to close association and 

 inbreeding, enforced by the presence of mountain barriers. For 

 the general reader no more concise or more suggestive introduction 

 to the study of Evolution could be recommended. — J. R. 



