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The Lepidoptera of Suffolk, compiled by E. N. Bloomfield, M.A., F.E.S. ; 

 00 pp., 8vo. London : Wesley and Son ; Colchester : W. H. Harwood. 1890. 



Another addition to the already numerous county Lists of British Lepidoptera. 

 As is well known, the Kev. Mr. Bloomfield is not a resident in the county, but his 

 connection therewith otherwise has enabled him to draw up a very valuable and 

 useful List, and no pains seem to have been spared in order to render it complete. 

 Such a List was indeed commenced so long ago as 1857 to 1859, in Morris's 

 " Naturalist," by such well-known workers us the Rev. Joseph Greene, the Rev. H. 

 Harpur Crewe, and Mr. C. R. Bree, but it extended only to near the end of the 

 Noctua. This has been made use of in the present List, with many additions, both 

 in species and localities, and the remainder has been completed ; the Micro- 

 Lepidoptera being especially well enumerated, and the whole could scarcely have 

 been more detailed had it been the work of a resident, all the leading local observers 

 having assisted him to their utmost. The physical features of the county are 

 tolerably well known to all ; the fact that it shares with Norfolk what is commonly 

 termed the " breck-sand '' district adds not immaterially to the number and interest 

 of the species. The only thing we can find fault with is the absence of a numerical 

 summary. 



The DAiiwiNiAN Theoet of the Origin of Species : by Francis P. 

 Pascoe, F.L.S., &c. ; small 8to, pp. 130. London: Gurney and Jackson. 1890. 



This little book, written by an uncomprising opponent of the theory of Natural 

 Selection, shows evidence of an immense amount of reading, and the numerous 

 quotations from various authors render it useful to the general reader, whatever may 

 be his views on the theory itself. Mr. Pascoe considers that the old theory of 

 Evolution is practically " unassailable. But Evolution is not Natural Selection." 

 We think there are many who will agree with him ; but Natural Selection may, 

 nevertheless, be a potent factor in Evolution. Outside questions of theory altogether, 

 the book may be profitably studied by those who wish to know something of the 

 many wonderful adaptations of structure, habits, and metamorphoses in the Animal 

 Kingdom. 



Sixth Report on the Injurious and other Insects of the State of 

 New York ; by J. A. Lintnek, Ph.D., State Entomologist. Albany, 1890. 



As usual, Dr. Lintner produces an interesting and valuable Report, somewhat 

 less bulky than its predecessors. It opens with a concise review of the principal 

 features in Economic Entomology for the year, and the remainder consists of mono- 

 graphs of special insects in almost all Orders, worked out in a detailed manner. 

 Several of them are well known as common both to Europe and N. America, amongst 

 which we may mention Mypoderma bovis, Adalia bipunctata, Dermestes lardariusi 

 Aphis brassicce, &c. In any case these Reports are always useful to European 

 workers in the same field, for if the subjects treated on be not always common to 

 the two continents, there is usually much similarity. 



Guides fob Science-Teaching ; No. viii : Insecta ; by Alpheus Hyatt and 

 J. M. Arms. Boston, U. S. A. : D. C. Heath & Co. 1890. Small 8vo. 



This vol. of 300 pp., with copious outline illustrations, appears to be one of a 

 series issued under the auspices of the Boston Society of Natural History. The 



