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NOTICE OF KECENT BOOK. 



Through a Pocket Lens. By Henry Scherren, F.Z.S. London : 

 E.T.S., pp. 192, and 90 illustrations. Price 2s Qd. 



In this, his latest work, Mr. Scherren has done much to instil 

 the advantage of a thorough practical use of the pocket lens in 

 the mind of a budding naturalist, and to show him how large an 

 amount of real information may be acquired by an intelligent use 

 of simple apparatus, costing but a few shillings. As, of course, 

 the field of application of a hand magnifier is unlimited, the 

 author has wisely chosen one division of the animal kingdom for 

 his subject — viz., the Arthropoda — and in the small compass of 

 about 190 duodecimo pages he has compressed a quantity of detail 

 on the structure, habits, and general life -histories of illustrative 

 genera and species of insects, crustaceans and spiders. The book 

 is one to buy and present to all one's young relatives who show 

 any taste whatsoever for natural science. 



Journ. Quekett Microscopical Club, Ser. II., Vol. VI., No. 41, Nov. 1897. 



