134 NATURAL SCIENCE [August 
Our NATURALISTS 
Mr L. Uecott GIL, 170 Strand, has kindly sent us “ The Naturalist’s 
Directory,” 1897; price 1s. This, the third edition, will undoubtedly 
be useful to us, for it contains a large number of names that are not 
to be found in the ordinary lists of learned societies or in the invalu- 
able “ Zoologisches Adress-buch” of Friedliinder. We presume the 
majority of those included in the above-mentioned works are here 
omitted of set purpose; there would be no difficulty in comprising 
them. At the same time, some hint might have been given as to the 
principles on which the selection was made. It is pleasing to find 
that there are so many people claiming to be naturalists in the British 
Isles. As for the foreign and colonial lists, their similar vagaries are 
perhaps due to the fact that they are avowedly restricted to persons 
desiring to correspond or exchange specimens with collectors and 
students in this country. The extension of these lists, no difficult 
task, would be of much use. The book also contains a trade-directory, 
a list of societies, field-clubs, and museums in the British Isles, a list 
of the principal natural history works published durimg 1896 in the 
British Isles, and a somewhat erratically selected but useful list of 
natural science magazines, in which, if we may judge from our own 
case, the information is not always so correct as it might be. 
BOTANICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 
THE Cambridge Botanical Supply Co. are distributing samples of 
their card catalogue of current literature relating to American botany. 
Items are arranged according to authors’ names, but an edition of 
subjects is also in preparation. The matter is prepared by a board of 
editors, which includes the leading botanists of Columbia College, the 
National Herbarium, and other institutions, and is published under 
the direction of a committee of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science. 
The cards used are of heavy linen ledger paper made to order for 
this purpose. They are cut with extreme accuracy by an expensive 
machine. The size is 50 by 125mm. The number of cards issued in 
1894 averaged 49 per month ; for 1895 the average was over 60, and 
the total number of cards to April 1897, 2319. Subscriptions ($5, paid 
in advance) may be sent to Wm. Wesley & Son, 28 Essex Street, 
Strand, London. 
We commend this useful enterprise to the notice of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science. 
WESTMORELANDSHIRE’S Field Geology forms the subject of a paper 
by Mr H. G. Foster-Barham, which was read before the Burneside 
Mutual Improvement Society on February 11, 1897. The paper, 
which is illustrated by sketch-maps and sections, is published by 
R. Atkinson, Stramongate, Kendal, at 1s., post free, and gives a general 
account of the interesting district. 
SCRAPS FROM SERIALS 
THE ever interesting Scottish Geographical Magazine gives two 
lively articles in its July number. Sir Henry Tyler writes on the 
