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[October 3, 191: 



Part vii., Balder the Beautiful; Marriage Ceremonies 

 in Morocco, Prof. E. Westermarck; The Pagan 

 Tribes of Borneo : a Description of tlieir Physical, 

 Moral and Intellectual Condition, with some Dis- 

 cussion of their Ethnic Relations, Dr. C. Hose and 

 Dr. VV. M'Dougall, F.R.S., 2 vols., illustrated. 

 Scelcy, Service and Co., Ltd. — .Among Congo 

 Cannibals : the Experiences, Impressions, and .Adven- 

 tures during a Thirty Years' Sojourn among the 

 Boloki and other Congo Tribes, with a Description 

 of their Curious Customs, Habits, and Religion, 

 J. H. Weeks, illustrated. 



Biology. 



Edzvard Arnold. ^The Life of an Elephant, Sir S. 

 Eardley-Wilmot, K.C.I.E., illustrated. .4. and C. 

 Black.~F\rst Principles of Evolution, Dr. S. 

 Herbert, illustrated; Coarse Fishing, H. T. Shering- 

 ham, illustrated; Life-history and Habits of the 

 Salmon, Sea-trout, Trout, and other Freshwater 

 Fish, P. D. Malloch, new edition, illustrated ; Peeps 

 at Nature, edited by Rpv. C. A. Hall : British Ferns, 

 Club-mosses, and Horse-tails, D. Ferguson, illus- 

 trated; Natural History of the Garden, W. P. 

 Westell, illustrated. Blackie and Son, Ltd. — Plant 

 Diseases, Dr. W. F. Bruck, translated. Edited by 

 Prof. J. R. Ainsworth Davis. The Cambridge Uni- 

 versity Press. — The Genus Iris, W. R. Dykes, illus- 

 trated; Makers of British Botany, Prof. F. W. 

 Oliver; The Vegetation of the Peak District, Dr. 

 C. E. Moss ; Herbals, Dr. Agnes Arber, illustrated ; 

 Cassell and Co.. LW.— British Birds' Nests: 

 How, Where, and When to Find and Identify 

 Them, R. Kearton, new edition, illustrated; The 

 Charm of the Hills, S. Gordon, illustrated ; Insect 

 Workers, W. J. Claxton, illustrated. /. M. Dent 

 and Sons. Ltd. — Plant Geography, Prof. G. S. 

 Boulger. .4. C. FificJd. — Tlie Nature of Woman, 

 J. L. .Tayler, with a supplementary chapter 

 on Landmarks in the .Subject, containing an article 

 "Woman," by W. C. Roscoe ; The Forest Farm: 

 Tales of the Austrian Tyrol, P. Rosegger, with a 

 biographical sketch by Dr. J. Petersen, an apprecia- 

 tion by M. JL. King, a photograph of Rosegger, and 

 a sketch of his forest home ; The Soul of a 

 Gardener, H. M. Waithman. Gnstav Fischer 

 (Jena). — Vorlesungen iiber technische Mycologie, 

 Dr. F. Fuhrmann ; Richtlinien des Entwicklungs- 

 und Vererbungsproblems, Dr. .\. Greil, Zweiter 

 Teil : .Anpassung und Variabilitat, Ererbung und 

 Erwerbung, Geschlechtsbestimmung (Entwicklungs- 

 und Vererbungstheorien") ; Die Gattung Hedera, F. 

 Tobler, illustrated. R. Friedldnder und Sohn 

 (Berlin). — Etudes de L6pidoptt^rologie compar^e, C. 

 Oberthiir, Fasc. vi., illustrated; Kataloe: der palJi- 

 arktischen Hemipteren, B. Oshanin (Heteroptera, 

 Homoptera-.Auchenorhynrha und Psylloidese') ; Resul- 

 tats des Campagnes Scicntifiques d' Albert I., Prince 

 de Monaco, Fasc. xxxv., Poissons des camp, iqoi-io, 

 E. Zugmaver, illustrated; Fasc. xxxvi., G^phyriens 

 des camp. iSoS-iqio, G. P. Sluiter, with 

 coloured plate; Das Tierreich, edited by F. E. 

 Schulze : Lief. 34, Ampthusiidae, H. Stichel ; Lief. 

 35, Rhabdocoela, L. v. Graff; Lief. 36, Pteropoda, 

 j. J. Tcsch ; Verhandlungen des V. Internationalen 

 Ornithologen-Kongress, Berlin, iqio, edited by H. 

 Shalow, illustrated; Zoologischer Jahresbericht fiir 

 iQii; Chromotaxia seu Nomenclator Colorum Poly- 

 srlottus ad usum Botanicorum et Zoologorum, Prof. 

 P. .-\. Saccardo, new edition, illustrated; Die Fauna 

 der Deutschen-Kolonien, Reihe v.. Heft 3, Drs. G. 

 Aulmann and W. La Baume, illustrated ; Ornis 

 Romaniae, Die Vogelwelt Rumaniens, R. v. Dom- 



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browski ; Die sanitarisch-pathologische Bedeutung 

 der Insecten u. verwandten Gliedertiere, namentlich 

 als Krankheitserreger u. Krankheitsiibertrager, Prof. 

 E. A. Goeldi, illustrated; Die Planarien des Baikal- 

 Sees (Trieladen), Prof. .A. Korshieff, illustrated ; 

 Die Birkhiihner Russlands, Bastarde und Varietaten, 

 T. Lorenz, 4 parts, illustrated. H'. Hcffer and 

 So)is, Ltd. (Cambridge). — British Violets : a Mono- 

 graph, Mrs. E. S. Gregory, illustrated. Henry Holt 

 and Co. (New York). — The Living Plant, Prof. 

 W. F. Ganong, illustrated. T. C. and E. C. Jack: — 

 Present-day Gardening, edited by R. H. Pearson : 

 Tulips, Rev. J. Jacob; The Rock Garden, R. Farrer; 

 Dahlias, G. Gordon, each illustrated; The Science of 

 Life, Prof. W. D. Henderson ; Animal Life, Prof. 

 E. W. MacBride, F.R.S. ; Bacteriology, Dr. 

 W. E. C. Dickson; Darwin, Prof. W. Garstang. 

 C. H. A'cHv.— British Fern Varieties, F. G. Heath, 

 illustrated ; Nature's Nursery Tales, S. N. Sedgwick, 

 illustrated. Longmans and Co. — South African 

 Snakes and their Venom, and how to Treat Snake 

 Bite, F. W. Fitzsimons, new edition, illustrated; A 

 Text-book of Practical Bacteriology and Micro- 

 biology, Dr. .A. Besson, translated from the fifth 

 French edition, and adapted by Prof. H. J. Hutchens. 

 Macmillan and Co., Ltd.- — A Treatise on Embryo- 

 logv, edited bv W. Heape, F.R.S. : Vol. i., Inverte- 

 brata. Prof. E. W. MacBride, F.R.S., illustrated; 

 Physiological Plant Anatomy, Prof. G. Haberlandt, 

 translated by J. M. F. Drummond, illustrated; 

 The Cotton Plant in Egypt : Studies in Gene- 

 tics and Physiology, W." L. Balls, illustrated; 

 The Marine Mammals in the Anatomical Museum 

 of the University of Edinburgh, Part i., Cetacea, 

 Part ii., .Sirenia, Part iii., Pinnipedia, Sir 

 Wm. Turner, K.C.B., F.R.S., illustrated; In- 

 jurious Insects : How to Recognise and Control 

 Them, Prof. W. C. O'Kane, illustrated; Trees in 

 Winter, Prof. A. B. Blakeslee, illustrated. John 

 Murray. — The Big Game of Central and Western 

 China,' H. ¥.' Wallace, illustrated.— Problems 

 of Life and Reproduction, Prof. M. Har- 

 tog, illustrated. George Routledge and Sons, 

 Ltd. — The Theory of Evolution in the Light 

 of Facts, K. Frank, w'ith a chapter on Ant 

 Guests and Termite Guests by P. E. Was- 

 mann, translated from the German bv C. T. 

 Druery, illustrated; The Dry-fly Man''s Hand- 

 book : a Complete Manual, including The Fisher- 

 man's Entomologv, The Making and Management 

 of a Fishery, F. M. Halford, illustrated; The 

 Gardener's Dictionary, edited by .\. Hemsley and 

 J. Eraser, illustrated; The Entomologist's Log-book, 

 A. G. Scorer. The University Ti4torial Press, Ltd. — 

 Text-book of Botany, J. M. Lowson, adapted to 

 Indian requirements by Mrs. J. C. Willis; School 

 Gardening, A. Hosking ; Nature Study, Dr. J. 

 Rennie, adapted to South .African requirements by 

 Dr. G. Rattrav. Withcrbv and Co.— The Home-life 

 of the Terns or Sea-swallows, ^^^ Bickerton, illus- 

 trated. 



CilEMISTRV. 



Edward .\rnohl. —The Principles of Applied Electro- 

 chemistry, Dr. .A. J. Allmand, illustrated ; Organic 

 Chemistry for .Advanced Students, Prof. T. B. Cohen, 

 F.R.S., 'Part ii. A. and C. B/ac/c— Chemical 

 Analysis, Qualitative and Quantitative, G. _ G. 

 Gardiner, Vol. i. BJackie and Son, Ltd. — E.xercises 

 in Gas Analvsis, Prof. H. Franzen, trans- 

 lated bv Dr. T. Callan. /. and A. Churchill— 

 General' and Industrial Inorganic Chemistry, Prof. 

 E. Molinari, 2 vols., dealing with Organic Chem- 

 istrv. translated bv T. H.^Pope, illustrated; The 



