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At the close of the above address Mr Hewat, who during 
its delivery had occupied the chair as senior Vice-President, 
conveyed to Mr Crawford the sincere thanks of the Society, 
not only for his able address, to which they had listened with 
great enjoyment, but also for his three years’ service as 
President. Mr Crawford’s services to the Society had been 
ungrudgingly rendered, and the members owed him a deep 
debt of gratitude for the numerous and varied ways in which 
he had sought to promote its welfare. The vote of thanks to 
Mr Crawford was carried with acclamation. 
A large number of books and pamphlets on Nature Study, 
several of them from America, were shown by Mr Crawford 
in illustration of his address, and these were examined with 
interest by the members of the Society before they separated. 
For the benefit of teachers and others who take an interest in 
the subject of Nature Study, Mr Crawford’s List of these 
publications is here appended :— 
A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS AND TRACTS ON NATURE STUDY. 
(Restricted to those of which I have personal knowledge.) 
1. Booxs ror Fietp NATURALISTS. ¥ 
Of these there are not many modern and really good ; nearly all relate to 
insects. The following three are admirable :— 
‘The Natural History of Aquatic Insects,’ by Prof, L. C. Miall. London: 
Macmillan & Co. 1895. 6s. 
‘La Vie des Abeilles,’ par Maurice ‘Maeterlinck. Paris: Charpentier. 
1901. 3 frs. 50 c. English translation, by A. Sutro. London: 
Allen, Ruskin House. 1901. 5s. net. a 
‘Alternating Generations. A Biological Study of Oak Galls and Gall 
Flies,’ by Dr Hermann Adler. Translated by Straton. Clarendon 
Press, 1894. 10s. 6d. net. 
To these may be added a book which has been much admired in Germany— 
‘Spazierginge eines Naturforschers,’ von Prof. William Marshall. 2nd 
ed. Leipzig, 1890. Bound, 10 marks net. 
For a long time new works have been greatly wanted to take the place of 
Gosse’s charming books, ‘A Year at the Sea-shore’ (1877), and others; or 
Lewes’s ‘ Seaside Studies’ (1860); or Quatrefages’ ‘Rambles of a Naturalist,’ 
published in ‘La Revue des Deux Mondes’ about fifty years ago (Eng. trans., 
1857). (Now quite antiquated.) 
‘‘Memoirs on Typical British Marine Plants and Animals,” published by _ 
the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee. London: Williams & 
Norgate. 1899, &c. Energetic field naturalists will find splendid 
materials for study in these memoirs. 1s. to 2s. each. 
‘Life by the Sea-shore. An Introduction to Natural History,’ by Dr 
Marion Newbigin (London: Sonnenschein, 1901), will: be most 
useful. 3s. 6d. net. 
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