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hoped that his taste for observing and his zeal in faithfully 
recording his observations may be emulated by others who— 
favourably situated like himself—have it in their power to add 
materially to our knowledge of the zoological and botanical wealth 
of our Indian Empire. 
We regret that we cannot congratulate Mr. Lockwood on his illus- 
trations, most of which are crude and unfinished, and we miss an 
Index, which would have added much to the utility of his book, 
The History of Glanville’s Wootton, in the County of Dorset ; 
including its Zoology and Botany. By C. W. Date. 8vo, 
pp- 392, with two photographs. London: Hatchards. 1870. 
THE history of Glanville’s Wootton, as related by Mr. Dale, 
occupies barely six and twenty pages. From this circumstance 
one is led to infer that the account must either be very imperfect 
or it was hardly worth publication. Nor do the 366 pages which 
follow on the Zoology and Botany of the parish compensate for 
the earlier shortcomings of the author. Nearly three hundred 
pages are vecupied with a systematic list of insects, of which only 
the scientific names are given, and these not always correctly, with 
no further comment or observation than is conveyed by the addition 
of the words “common,” “ abundant,” or “very rare,” as the case 
may be. So wearisome a repetition of names can scarcely prove 
attractive, we imagine, to any but the keenest insect collector. 
Whether entomologists will be content to accept Mr. Dale’s new 
species (pp. 264, 290, 293, 304, 306, 308), founded as they appear 
to be on very inadequate descriptions, and having little but his 
new names to distinguish them, is more than doubtful. 
The more important constituents of this local fauna—the Ver- 
tebrata—being treated in a very cursory and imperfect manner, 
the work can scarcely be said to have much utility for zoologists. 
The few scraps of interest which it contains may be noted in a few 
lines. The Marten-cat has been killed at Holnest (p. 27), Dau- 
benton's Bat, or the “ Little Black Bat,” as it is locally termed, is 
abundant (p. 28). The Roe-deer is stated (p. 29) to be “rare, but 
more common in the Middlemarsh Woods. It used formerly to 
be hunted with Greyhounds.” These, it is presumed, must be 
some of the descendants of the stock turned: out, in 1800, by 
the Earl of Dorchester at Milton Abbey, or by his neighbour, 
