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receipts and disbursements, a description of the menagerie, and a list of 
the animals acquired during each month in the year. 
Manuscript Notes from My Journal; or, Illustrations of Insects, Native 
and Foreign. Diptera or Two-winged Flies. By Townend Glover. 
Washington, 1874. 
May be called one of the ‘‘ Curiosities of Literature.” It is published in 
4to, and contains 120 pp. and thirteen plates. It is written autographically 
by Townend Glover, transferred to stone, and printed by James G. Gedney. 
By giving the table of contents we may convey some idea of this laborious 
publication :— 
Introduction. 
Plates i. to xiii. 
Arrangement of Families ae - Sa gage. E 
List of Families and Genera, with Synonyms, 
Habits, Food, &.  - - - - aie, We 
» Parasitic and Predaceous Diptera - », 60 
», Vegetable and Animal Substances in- 
jured by Diptera” - - - . 3 68 
» Insects of other Orders destroying 
Diptera or destroyed by them - - iatd 
», Principal Genera, with derivations of 
names - 7 - - - - aid 
», Principal Species - - - : » 94 
Remedies used or suggested, with list of Insects 
Widnfionbd =e = ee eS » 101 
Synoptical Tables of Sections and Families of 
Diptera by Dr. le Baron - - - - , AUS 
The plates represent 533 insects in different stages, besides innumerable 
details, which are exquisitely engraved on copper from the author’s own 
drawings. The very thick paper on which the book is printed will, we fear, 
present difficulties to the binder; but this must be an after-consideration : 
all I have to say is in its favour. 
Twelve Plain and Practical Articles on Marine and Freshwater Aquaria. 
By W. A. Lloyd, Superintendent of the Crystal Palace Aquarium, 
and Naturalist to the London Aquarium Society at Westminster. 
Illustrated by fourteen woodcuts, and published in Cassell’s ‘ Popular 
* Recreator.’ 
This title gives the whole gist of the matter, and renders further 
explanation superfluous. I differ from Mr. Lloyd, however, in what he 
says about lung-breathing animals: an aquarium is a home artificially 
provided for aquatic animals, and has nothing whatever to do with their 
mode of respiration. You might as well restrict the inmates of an aviary 
