THE ZooLoGist—SEPTEMBER, 1875. 4627 
Hooks Areceibed, 
Bibliotheea Ichthyologica et Piscatoria; being a Catalogue of Books and 
Pamphlets on the Natural History of Fishes and of Cetacea, on Pisci- 
culture, Fisheries, and Legislation respecting Fishes. Edited by J. D. 
Mulder Bosgoed. Haerlem: Heretiers Loosjes. 1874. Demy 8vo, 
474 pp. 
Tuis, as stated in the title, is a list of books and tracts about Fishes and 
Fishing, amounting in number to the extraordinary total of 6486: it has 
been compiled with the most evident care and exactitude, and therefore is 
worthy all praise. I cannot better describe it than by copying the very 
explicit title-page, as I have done above. I have an idea, but I do not feel 
much disposed to press it, that naturalists will be somewhat disposed to 
despise the piscatorial authors, and fishermen the Natural History portion ; 
and therefore that both would have preferred a clear line of demarcation 
between them. It is certain that fishermen are not naturalists, and 
naturalists are not fishermen, any more than gardeners are entomologists, 
so that what ought to be the leading qualification for a fisherman is held in 
very low estimation by the scientific naturalist; thus the first tells you that 
the “ gray drake” or ‘‘ green drake,” as the case may be, is not found only 
north of the Tweed: the naturalist is well aware that one is a preparatory 
state of the other. This is not the way to advance either science or “sport,” 
as it is usually called; it is unwise to reject any information that bears even 
remotely on the subject under consideration. 
Rambles in Search of Shells, Land and Freshwater. By James Edmund 
Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &e. Demy 12mo, 108 pp. letterpress and 
eight coloured litho. plates. Wan Voorst, Paternoster Row. 1875. 
A nicz little book, reprinted from the ‘ Field’ newspaper; neither too 
learned nor too popular; neither too imaginative nor too matter-of-fact ; neither 
too deep nor too shallow. The figures of the snail's shells are particularly 
good: the difference in form between the oviparous and viviparous species 
of Paludina are better given than in any other figures I have ever seen. 
The only figure that strikes me as erroneous, and that only in having too 
much colour, is Helix Pomatia, in plate ix.: this species, in a state of 
nature, is nearly white; it is so nearly the colour of chalk that it is most 
difficult to distinguish it from a lump of chalk. I fancy Mr. Harting may 
say, ‘Oh! he is thinking of dead shells that have been bleached by exposure 
on Mickleham Downs.” Not so; I allude to living specimens, of which 
I have seen more than Mr. Harting; because his observations must haye 
been confined to an occasional ramble over the chalk hills, whereas mine are 
