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hoped that his taste for obsorving and his zeal in faithfully 

 recording his observations may be emulated by others who — 

 favourably situated like himself — have it in their power to afld 

 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 Wool ton, in the County of Dorset ; 

 including its Zoology and Botany. By C. W. Dalk. 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 oecupied 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 Bal, 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, 



