372 Bibliographical Notices. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



100 Photograiilis from Life. (No. 1.) By Douglas Englisu. 

 London : Bousficld & Co., 1907. 



This is a really wondorfal shilling's worth, containing most charming 

 pictures of shrew-mico, dormice, house- and field-mice, and the 

 meadow-mouse. 



In some thirty pages of text the Author briefly enumerates the 

 salient points of each species and the more interesting facts with 

 regard to the life-history of each. Accurate and pleasantly written, 

 this addition to the volume will be most welcome. 



100 Photographs from Life. (No. 2.) By R. B. Lodge. 

 London : Bousficld & Co., 1907. 



Mr. R. B. Lodge has earned for himself a considerable reputation 

 as a bird-photographer, and this is thoroughly well sustained in this 

 little booklet — a companion volume to that on the Rodents. 



Though all the pictures herein reproduced have appeared else- 

 where, they will find a no less hearty welcome among bird-lovers 

 on this account. 



Mr. Lodge's notes on the habits are extremely interesting, and 

 not less so because he has included therein many details concerning 

 the making of his pictures. W. P. P. 



Les Debuts d'un Savant Naturaliste, le Prince de VEntomologie, Pierre 

 Andre Latreille, a Brive, de 1762 a 1796. Par Louis de Nussac, 

 Sous-Bibliothecaire du Museum d'Histoiro naturelle. 8vo. 

 Paris, 1907. Pp. 264. 



Latkeille is not the least distinguished among the numerous French 

 clerics who have done so much good work in entomology for more 

 than a century, and we may also mention Engramelle, Lacordaire, 

 David, and Joannis. At a time when entomology was in its infancy 

 in Britain, Latreille laid the foundations of the science deeply and 

 firmly in the sixteen volumes of bis ' Histoire naturelle, generale 

 et particuliere des Crustaces et des Insectes,' published between 

 1802 and 1805. 



But the interesting work before us deals only with the earlier 

 part of his life, before the publication of his principal works ; for, 

 though he had previously published several entomological papers, 

 his ' Precis,' the first of the long series of books which made his 

 name famous, did not appear till 1796. He was born at Brive in 

 1762, and died iu Paris in 1833. 



We do not propose to speak of Latreille's career further, except 

 to relate again one of the most interesting episodes of his early 

 life. At the time of the French Revoluvtion, Latreille, who had 



