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although it is imjiossible that so large a work can be free from 

 occasional errors, its great and permanent value to all students of 

 Lepidoptera cannot roasonablj* be disputed by anyone, especially on 

 account of tlie numerous illustrations. 



TJie Flora of the Presidency of Domhay. By Theodore Cooke, CLE., 

 formerly Principal of the College of Science at Poona and Director 

 of the Botanical Survey of Western India. Manunculacece to 

 liutac-ecf. Published under the Authority of the Secretary of State 

 for India in Council. London: Taylor & Francis, 1001. 

 Pp. 2 & 1-192. 



O.v the completion of the 'Flora of British India' by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker in 1897 it was thought that the time had come when the 

 preparation of local floras of that vast empire was feasible ; the 

 outline having been drawn, the details could now be filled in and 

 more attention devoted to those local conditions which the scale of 

 the previous work rendered impracticable. 



The present work is a first instalment of an account of the 

 Bombay flora, and also the first of a series of projected regional 

 floras of India, organized by the Director of the Botanical Survey of 

 that possession, !Major D. Prain, following the lines indicated by his 

 predecessor, Sir George King. Dr. Cooke, the author, has had 

 excellent opportunities of making acquaintance with the Bombay 

 fiora at first hand, and the resulting larg-e herbarium he accumu- 

 lated has been collated as the work progressed with the extensive 

 Indian material at Kew. This gives a solid basis to the production 

 before us. 



The descriptions of the genera and species are more detailed than 

 in the ' Flora of British India,' and naturally with greater attention 

 to local citations, as befits the character of the book. We have not 

 noticed many new species or plants admitted to that rank — oiily 

 two, in fact ; but on ground that has been so assiduously worked 

 over that is not very surprising ; on the contrary, we are disposed 

 to consider it a proof of sound judgment on the part of the author, 

 who is further to be praised for the general excellence of his per- 

 formance, which is enhanced by the jdeasing and legible method of 

 printing adopted. 



The continuation of the work is assured by the authorization of 

 the Secretary of State for India, and, when complete, the Presidency 

 wiU be in possession of an admirable handbook of its flora. 



Zoologkal Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, 

 Loyalty Ishauls, and elsewhere, collected durwi/ the Years 1895, 

 1896, and 1897, by Arthur Willey, D.Sc. Part V. Cambridge, 

 190U, at the University Press. 4to. 



Thk fifth part of Dr. Willey 's ' Zoological Eesults ' contains half a 

 dozen articles of very varying degrees of interest to the general 

 zoological reader, though each is good of its kind. 



The volume opens with a " Description of the Entozoa . . . ." by 

 Mr' A. E. Shipley, who states that Dr. Willey's collection of these 



