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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 their 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. J 881. 



Tue object of this volume is to give a short account of the 

 different kinds of insects, about ninety in number, which attack 



