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which every specimen is labelled with locality, date, and other 

 particulars relating to its capture. 



In a report on Herpetology two new snakes are described 

 and figured by Dr. Giinther, Coronella tritamia and Dryophis 

 Oatesii. 



Professor Westwood, reporting on the insects, remarks that 

 " the collection, although not of considerable extent, fortunately 

 comprises examples of many of the very peculiar groups and 

 genera characteristic of the greater part of the African continent." 

 His report is illustrated with four beautiful plates, prepared by his 

 own hand, in which some eighteen species of Lepidoptera and 

 Coleoptera are figured, as also the dreaded Tzetze fly. 



The plants collected by Oates have all been named at Kew 

 under the direction of Professor Oliver, whose report thereon 

 is printed in the present volume, with coloured plates of two 

 novelties, Anthericv/m Oatesii and Adiantum Oatesii, originally 

 described by Mr. J. G. Baker in the ' Journal of Botany.' 



It must have been no slight undertaking to prepare this 

 volume for the press, and perhaps no one but a brother with that 

 intimate knowledge of the traveller's disposition, tastes, and 

 habits of life could have interpreted his journals and letters so 

 admirably as the editor in this case appears to have done. For 

 the story of the journey seems complete and well told, and it is 

 difficult to realise the fact that it is told second-hand, albeit that 

 many passages are in the traveller's own words. 



The editor has certainly performed his part well, and making 

 due allowance for a partiality which naturally arises from brotherly 

 love and affection, we doubt if any reader of the book will gain- 

 say the estimate which his biographer has formed and expressed 

 of the manly character of the author and his persevering energy 

 in the cause of progress and scientific research. 



Notes and Jottings from Animal Life. By the late Fkank Buck- 

 land, M.A. 8vo, pp.414, with illustrations. London: 

 Smith, Elder& Co. 18H2. 



From amongst the numerous articles contributed by him to 

 the columns of 'Land and Water,' the author, shortly before his 

 death, selected for republication in book-form those which are 



