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The Illustrated Annual of Microscopy, 1900, pp. 148, 

 numerous illustrations. London : Percy Lund, Humphries 

 & Co. Price 2s. Qd. net. 



Editor and publishers may be congratulated on the appearance 

 of their second voliTme, which in matter and illustrations is 

 an advance on the first, good as that undoubtedly was. In any 

 attempt to cater for microscopists at large a somewhat wide 

 range of subject must be embraced, and so we find some two 

 dozen articles, comprising Brass and Glass, Methods, Photography, 

 Biology, and Miscellaneous. Included in the latter is one entitled 

 " The Light Side of Microscopy," by Mr. Roscoe, who has dis- 

 interred sbme of the fun brought out at the bygone annual 

 dinners of the Quekett Club, when the genial influences of 

 Dr. Cooke and other kindred spirits, now mostly dead and gone, 

 had full play. The progress recently made in process illustration 

 is well seen in this book. The frontispiece is a reproduction 

 in tint of Richter's charming picture of " Pond Life," and Mr. 

 Scourfield's " Hyaline Daphnia," as viewed by dark-ground illu- 

 mination, is one of the best process-blocks we have ever come 

 across. Mr. Noad Clark's photographs of butterfly and moth 

 eggs and entomological strvictures are also excellent ; and it is, 

 indeed, invidious to particularise when nearly all the illustrations 

 are of high character. The concluding chapter deals with the 

 latest productions of our leading opticians, and should be of value 

 to country residents, who have fewer opportunities of seeing these 

 as they are brought out. Taken all round, it is a marvellous 

 half-crown's worth, and should be the property of every 

 microscopist. G. C. K. 



Common Objects of the Microscope. By the late Rev. J. G. 

 Wood, M.A. Second edition, revised and rewritten by E. C. 

 Bousfield, L.R.C.P., pp. x and 186, 14 plates. London : 

 G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd. Price 3s. Qd. With plates 

 uncoloured, Is. 



We are very pleased to see a second edition of this book, which, 

 in the words of its reviser, has been the guide, philosopher, and 

 friend of thousands of commencing microscopists. We are also 

 reminded that thirty-six years have gone by since it was first 



