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BOOK NOTICES. 

 The Native Flowers of Victoria. By E. E. Pescott, F.L.S., 

 F.R.H.S. ii8 pp. {j\ X 4|). With 4 coloured plates and 

 56 photo. -engravings. Melbourne : Geo. Robertson and Co. 

 1914. 3s. 6d. 

 Ix this handy volume the author has called attention in a 

 delightful manner to a large number of our notable Vic- 

 torian trees, shrubs, and plants, for, judging l)y the very 

 complete index given, nearly 500 species must be mentioned. 

 The want of such a volume has long been felt, and the 

 jM-esent work seems to admirably fill the want. It is neither 

 too technical nor too popular, consequently the reader turning 

 to it for information will be encouraged to dip further and 

 learn more about the plants around him. The work is, to some 

 extent, designed to encourage the cultivation of native plants 

 in our gardens, and Prof. Ewart, in a short introduction, points 

 out that many of our native plants offer great possibihties to 

 the horticulturist. The plants are treated in more or less 

 related groups, and a fair number of the species mentioned 

 are illustrated by photo. -engravings, most of which are good — 

 in fact, many of them are exceedingly fine — and Mr. A. J. 

 Relph, who is responsible for most of them, is to be congratulated 

 on his successful photographs. The coloured illustrations are 

 hardly of equal merit, lacking the proper shade of colour in 

 several species. The chapter on growing the native flora is 

 sure to be appreciated, for what has already been published 

 on that point is extremely meagre. We trust the volume will 

 have a large sale, and a second edition be required, when a 

 few slight imperfections could be remedied. 



The Butterflies of Australia : a Monograph of the Aus- 

 tralian Rhopalocera. By G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., 

 F.E.S., and Geo. Lyell, F.E.S. 270 pp. {11 x 8J), with 

 43 plates (4 coloured). Sydney : Angus and Robertson. 

 IQ14. £2 2S. 

 In this fine quarto volume the authors have given the results 

 of many years' study of Australian butterflies. Being the 

 possessors of two of the finest private collections of these 

 insects, they have been able to devote great attention to the 

 proper' arrangement of the groups, and, by a slightly different 

 naming of the veins and areas of the wings and attention to 

 other structural details, claim to have established a system of 

 classification which will bear close criticism. The volume is 

 one more for the systematic collector than for the mere casual 

 lepidopterist. Each species and sub-sj^ecies is fully described, 

 and every insect is figured, hence the jilatc index covers 18 



