94 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



BOOK NOTICES. 



The Migration of Birds, by T. A. Coward. Cambridge University 

 Press (The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature). 

 Price is. 



This is another of the useful little Manuals of Science and 

 Literature which are being issued by the Cambridge University Press. 

 Mr Coward has had to condense a great deal into a very small 

 space, and we congratulate him on the success which has crowned 

 his efforts. The book bears evidence of much knowledge of the 

 literature dealing with the most engrossing subject of Bird-migration, 

 and the author has presented this knowledge to the general reader 

 in a manner which is calculated to afford him the maximum of 

 instruction in the minimum of space. The student of migration 

 could not do better than begin his studies by the perusal of this 

 book.— E. V. B. and L. J. R. 



The Open Book of Nature, by Rev. Charles A. Dall. London: 

 Adam & Charles Black. Price 3s. 6d. net. 



This well-written, clearly printed, and beautifully illustrated 

 volume is intended to stimulate the study of Nature in young people, 

 and with this aim in view should prove a success. It consists of a 

 series of eleven chapters, treating of elementary geology, fossils, and 

 field flowers, for the most part interestingly treated. Animal life, 

 however, receives but scant attention, while some of the pages 

 devoted to botany may, we fear, prove somewhat uninviting to the 

 young reader. The four chapters dealing with "A Ramble in May " 

 are the most attractive, and might with advantage have been placed 

 earlier in the book. Since the volume is adorned with no fewer 

 than sixty-two pages of illustrations, all of much merit, and sixteen 

 being in colour, it forms an attractive gift-book, and can be 

 recommended. We have noticed only one misprint, viz., "Cordata" 

 for "Chordata," on p. 79. 



gleanings. 



The New (Bell-Pettigrew) Natural History Museum of the 

 University of St Andrews. — In connection with the remarks made in the 

 February issue of the Scottish Naturalist, it may be mentioned that the late Mr Robert 

 Walker, librarian and quaestor, was appointed Curator of the Museum in 1879, 

 and filled the office till he died in 1881. Thereafter the late Prof. Pettigrew 

 held the post till the session 1883-4, when the present director was appointed. 



