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Wayside and Woodland Blossoms : A Pocket Guide to 

 British Wild Flowers for the Country Rambler. By Edward Step. lanio, 

 pp. v'ii. — 173. (London: F. Warne and Co. 1895.) Price 7/6. 



A most useful book for the country rambler. It contains 128 coloured 

 plates, giWng figures of 156 species, 22 full-page illustrations, and clearly 

 written descriptions of 400 species of plants. Persons taking country walks 

 and who are unacquainted with botany will find this book a welcome pocket 

 companion. 



Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien. By A. Engler and 

 K. Prantl. Nos. 113 — 116. (London: Williams and Norgate. Leipzig 

 W. Engelmann. ) 



These four numbers contain the conclusion of the Guttiferae, by A. Engler 

 the Dipterocarpaceae, by D. Brandis and E. Gilg ; Ancistrocladacese, by E 

 Gilg ; Elatinacese and Frankeniacese, by F. Niedenz ; Borraginaceae (con 

 eluded), by M. Giirke ; Verbenaceoe, by Briquet ; Bignoniacese (concluded) 

 by K. Schumann ; Pedaliaceae and Martyniacege, by O. Stapf ; Globulariaceae 

 by R. V. Wettstein ; and Acanthaceae, by G. Lindau. These four numbers 

 contain 75 illustrations, composed of 673 figures. 



A Handbook to the Carnivora. Part I., Cats, Civets, and 

 Mungooses. By Richard Lydekker, B.A., F.R.S. Cr. 8vo, pp. vdii. — 312. 

 (London: W. H. Allen and Co. 1895.) Price 6/- 



This volume of Allen^s NaHiralisf s Library is devoted in a great measure 

 to the family Felid^, followed by the various genera of the family Viverid.^. 

 Attention is also given to extinct Carnivora. There are 32 coloured plates in 

 the volume. 



British Fresh-Water Fishes. By the Rev. W. Houghton, 

 M.A., F. L.S. Second edition. Roy. 8vo, pp. xxviii. — 231. (Hull & York: 

 A. Brown & Sons. London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1895.) Price 10/6. 



This very handsome volume treats of the natural history of the various 

 species of fishes that are known to occur in the rivers, lakes, and ponds of the 

 British Isles, a description and an accurate engraving of each being given. 

 Sixty-five species of fishes are described and illustrated. There are besides 

 twenty-four prettily tinted plates of river scenery. The anatomy of the fish is 

 exhaustively described in the preface. 



A Manual for the Study of Insects. By John Henry 

 Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock. 8vo, pp. x. — 701. (Ithaca, N.V. , 

 U.S.A. : The Comstock Publishing Co. 1895.) $3 net or $4-09 post free. 



This is a handsomely got up volume, in which the authors have endeav- 

 oured to give to entomologists a handbook, by means of which the names and 

 relative affinities of insects may be determined in some such way as plants are 

 classified by the aid of the well-known manuals of botany. They have taken 

 much pains to render easy the classification of specimens ; groups of insects 

 have been fully characterised, and much space given to accounts of the habits 

 and transformations of the forms described. Special attention is given to wing 

 veins of insects. There are one coloured and five plain plates and nearly 800 

 wood-cut illustrations. 



Practical Microscopy. By G. E. Davis, F.R.M.S., F.I.C., 



etc. etc. 8vo, pp. viii. — 436. (London: W. H. Allen and Co. 1895.) 



This is a third edition of this well-known work on the microscope, and 

 contains much information which will prove useful to the microscopist. 



