418 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



CXXVIII. WATSON, The Rev. J. S., M.A. 



' The Reasoning Power in Animals.' 8vo. London, 1870. 

 Many of the anecdotes given are hackneyed, and require confirmation, or 

 rather replacement by others of more modern date and of a more precise 

 kind. 



CXXIX. WEST WOOD, Professor J. O., F.L.S., of Oxford. 



'Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects.' 2 vols. 8vo. 

 London, 1840. 



The more specially interesting sections are those which treat of the Habits 

 of Bees, Ants and Wasps. 



CXXX. WHETHAM, J. W. Boddam. 



'Pearls of the Pacific.' Being a Narrative of Travel in the Sandwich, 

 Samoan, Fiji and other Polynesian Islands. Demy 8vo. Illustrated. London, 

 1876. 



CXXXI. WHITE, Adam, F.L.S., late of the Zoological Department of the 



British Museum, London. 



' Popular History of Mammalia.' One of Lovel Reeve's series of illus- 

 trated popular Natural Histories. London, 1850. 



CXXXII. WHITE, the late Rev. Gilbert, M.A., of Selborne. 



' The Natural History of Selborne.' Edited by the late Sir Wm. Jardinc, 

 of Applegarth, Bart., editor of the well-known ' Naturalist's Library,' 

 and by the late Edward Jesse, author of the ' Gleanings,' and other 

 works in Natural History : containing numerous notes by the editors 

 and other distinguished naturalists. One of the volumes of ' Bohn's 

 Illustrated Library.' 8vo. London, 1851. 



Especially valuable as an example of what may be accomplished by 

 country clergymen or doctors in the scientific observation and record of 

 Natural Phenomena. 



CXXXIII. WOOD, The Rev. J. G., M.A., F.L.S. 



' Man and Beast, Here and Hereafter, with illustrative Anecdotes.' 2nd 

 ed. post 8vo. London, 1876. 



The Anecdotes, which are said to be original and modern, amount to 

 upwards of 300, 'all being authenticated by the writers, and the documents 

 themselves remaining in my possession,' says the author. Many of the 

 anecdotes in question, however, are certainly neither original nor modern. 

 Not a few I have met with in different forms in books of very different 

 characters and dates, and the probability, therefore, is that not a few of his 

 correspondents have drawn upon their memory and imagination, and have 

 reproduced, unwittingly, no doubt, various ' old stories ' sometimes of little 

 or no value. 



The want of an INDEX is a serious defect in this and certain other similar 

 volumes that treat of Animal Intelligence. 



