502 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
be verbatim transcripts from the author’s journals, printed as 
they were written, without any order or arrangement, save the 
chronological order in which they were originally jotted down, 
and without an index of any kind. 
The author tells us in his Preface that “having so many 
memoranda, and in such various forms, I was quite at a loss in 
what shape to put them, even for my own reference; I therefore 
resolved to print them as they turned up, and my inability to 
arrange them must be my excuse for the unsatisfactory way in 
which they appear.” We cannot admit the validity of such an 
excuse. On the contrary, bearing in mind the maxim that 
‘‘what is worth doing at all is worth doing well,” we think that 
Mr. Adamson should have taken the trouble (for that is really 
what it amounts to) of collecting all his notes upon each species 
under the head of that species, instead of leaving them scattered 
throughout the volume ; the species might then have been grouped 
under certain general headings, and a good index would have 
rendered the volume far more complete and useful than it 
now is. 
It is to be regretted that Mr. Adamson has not adopted some 
such course as this, for many of his notes are of practical value, 
and would be useful for future reference if the reader were only 
enabled to find them again without having to look through the 
entire volume a second time. 
A noticeable and meritorious feature in the book is the 
number of lithographic illustrations (about forty) with which it 
is interspersed, from original sketches by the author. Some of 
these are very characteristic of the species they are intended to 
represent, and betoken close observation of the attitudes and 
actions of wildfowl and seafowl as studied in tbeir natural 
haunts. 
A Manual of Injurious Insects ; with Methods of Prevention and 
Remedy for their attacks on Food Crops, Forest Trees, and 
Fruit. With a short Introduction to Entomology. By 
ELeanor A. OrMEROD. Post 8vo, pp. 316, with numerous 
illustrations. London: Sonnenschein & Allen. 1881. 
‘Tur object of this volume is to give a short account of the 
different kinds of insects, about ninety in number, which attack 
