658 NATURAL SCIENCE. 



Nov., 



1892. 



the almost deserted camp of " Last Chance," about eight miles from 

 the Grove. 



Messrs. Cassell & Co. on October 12 issued the first number 

 of a new weekly periodical entitled Cottage Gardening. The journal, 

 which will also deal with poultry, bees, allotments, simple cookery 

 and housekeeping, is edited by Mr. W. Robinson, author of " The 

 English Flower Garden." The price is one halfpenny. The present 

 issue consists of eight pages, all readable matter, there being no 

 advertisements. The front page is occupied by a short eulogy on the 

 English cottage, illustrated by an engraving from a picture by Alfred 

 Parsons. The original is evidently a very charming little picture, 

 but the reproduction is, unfortunately, somewhat of a smear. There 

 are four other illustrations, the best representing a potato known as 

 the white elephant, the others rather poor, that on the back page, of 

 the cottager's pig, a " sow of the large white breed," supported by a 

 gate and a bank of earth, being very black and white. The letter- 

 press contains several pages of useful hints, such as advice on planting 

 bulbs, rose cuttings, the best crysanthemums for October bloom, the 

 extermination of the gooseberry caterpillar, window boxes in winter, 

 the raising of early tulips for room decoration. Instructions are given 

 for the laying-out, trenching, and manuring of allotments, and there 

 are also some notes on poultry keeping, bees in cottage gardens, and 

 the pig. A page is devoted to domestic affairs, and there is, of course, 

 the inevitable prize competition. Answers to correspondents will be 

 a feature, and the journal will doubtless prove a boon to the class for 

 which it is intended. 



We have recently been favoured with a glimpse of parts vi. and 

 vii. (Spongozoa and Rhizopoda) of the " Museum Normanianum ; or 

 A Catalogue of the Invertebrata of Europe, and the Arctic and North 

 Atlantic Oceans, which are contained in the collection of the Rev. 

 Canon A. M. Norman, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Printed 

 for Private Distribution. Durham [printed] , 1892." Canon Norman's 

 idea of printing a catalogue is excellent, for so many type-specimens 

 are contained in his collection, and we hope other large collectors will 

 follow his example. But why not issue the Catalogue for sale ? The 

 fact of its being privately distributed renders it of little value, since 

 those most in want of it often remain quite ignorant of its existence. 

 We notice, moreover, that Canon Norman has proposed for certain 

 species some new names, which we forbear to quote ; they cannot 

 possibly be considered as published, and if they become entered in 

 lists will be productive of much inconvenience. It is bad enough 

 to propose names in indexes, footnotes, or other obscvire places, 

 but when this is done in privately-printed pamphlets, the nuisance 

 is intolerable. 



