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Agrestia Ligustia: Riviera Nature Notes. A Popular Account of the 

 more conspicuous Plants and Animals of the Riviera and the Mari- 

 time Alps. Second edition. With Frontispiece, Thirty-one 

 Plates and Ninety-three lUustrations in the text. London : 

 Quaritch. 1903. 8vo, pp. xv, 402. 

 We are very pleased to welcome this new and much-enlarged 

 edition of an extremely useful and attractive book, by an author who 

 veils himself under the letters " C. C," but who dedicates his book to 

 Sir Thomas Hanbury, a view of whose mansion and garden at La 

 Martola forms the frontispiece. The author informs us that he has 

 lived in the district for twelve years (part of the time before the 

 annexation of Nice to France, when the country was in a more 

 primitive condition than at present), and he is therefore able to write 

 of it from long personal knowledge. 



A large portion of the book is devoted to trees and plants ; but 

 quadrupeds, birds, lizards, frogs, shells, insects, and spiders, have not 

 been neglected ; and some very useful appendices are added, such as, 

 "Problems to Solve," "List of Butterflies" (including Sphinges and 

 Zygaenfe), " Books Useful for the Study of the Flora," and " Sights 

 worth Seeing." 



Although the book deals chiefly with natural history, it is written 

 in a pleasant gossipy style, and contains frequent references to history, 

 archaeology, &c. We have no patience with persons who discourage 

 any reference to non-technical subjects, even in popular scientific books. 

 We would strongly recommend anyone visiting the Riviera, either 

 for health or pleasure, to take this book with them, for we are sure 

 that they will find much in it that will greatly increase the interest of 

 their visit, and much information that they will be very pleased to 

 have" with them on the spot. 



W. F. K. 



EGBERT McLACHLAN. 



On May 23rd there passed from our midst a well-known figure in 

 the entomological world in the person of Mr. Robert McLachlan. His 

 health had been failing for some months before his death, which took 

 place at his residence in Lewisham at the comparatively early age of 

 sixty-seven. 



JFrom his father he inherited independent means, which enabled 

 him to devote his whole life to the pursuit of natural history. From 

 his presidential address to the Entomological Society of London in 

 1887, we learn that as a child his attention was turned to botany. 

 As a youth he made a voyage in 1855-6 to Australia and the East, 

 when, pursuing his earliest bent, he made a valuable collection of 

 Australian plants. On returning to England, however, he left his 

 first love, and took up with the study of entomology. In that 

 branch of zoology his knowledge was general, though, as we learn 

 from the 'Entomologists' Annual' for 1858, he commenced, as is 

 usually the case, with the Lepidoptera. Soon, however, he found his 

 life's work in rescuing from neglect and confusion the Neuroptera. 



