80 Reviews and Book Notices. 
small space. Throughout, the work is thoroughly practical, and the 
descriptions are given in terse and simple language. Although written 
for American readers, English growers will find it of much value, as most 
of our common vegetables are dealt with. Of the eight chapters in the 
book, the first seven deal with location, cultivation, fertilizers, hot-beds. 
sowing, transplanting, irrigation, home and school gardens, and storing 
and packing. The last chapter deals with the cultivation, harvesting and 
marketing of twenty-three special crops. The work is well illustrated 
by clear line drawings and a number of excellent photographs. 
Scils and Manures. By E. J. Russell, D.Se. Cambridge Press, 1915, 
pp.ix.--+ 206. 35: 6d. net. Dr. Russell’s work on Soils is too well-known 
to need special notice here, and it is fortunate he is able to spare time from 
his duties at Rothamstead to give students the benefit of his wide know- 
ledge and experience. The present volume is thoroughly characteristic 
of his work and is not only a careful and able exposition of the difficult 
problems associated with soils, but is written in such clear language that 
it may be easily followed by the average reader. As the author points 
out, the farmer is dependent ‘in the last instance either on his own soil or 
somebody else’s,’ and to be successful he must understand the principles 
of soil management. It is to save the heavy cost of acquiring this know- 
ledge solely by experience, that the work has been written as a quicker 
and more scientific guide to the solution of the problems, with which 
every farmer has to deal. In Part 1 is considered the needs of the plant, 
the composition of the soil and the effect of climate on soil and on fertility. 
Part 2 deals with cultivation and the control of soil fertility ; while the 
final chapters are devoted to a careful consideration of the properties and 
values of fertilizers. Simple but suggestive experiments are freely intro- 
duced and many useful tables given of results obtained under various 
conditions. A useful appendix deals with methods of soil analysis. There 
are thirty-three illustrations. 
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It is reported in the daily press that ‘ Phewitts ’ are on the increase 
in the York district this year. Help ! 
We regret to record the death of the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 
the famous chemist. He was born in London in 1833. Also of Sir John 
Rhys, Professor of Celtic and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford. He was 
born at Abercaero in 1840. 
We notice the Director of one of our museums is advertising a six- 
penny pamphlet, written by himself, as ‘A Unique Christmas Present.’ 
Personally we do not receive many Christmas presents in these days, but 
if someone had sent us one,of these pamphlets we should probably have 
found a more descriptive word than ‘ unique.’ 
At a recent meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 
Society the exhibits were as follows: By Mr. F. N. Pierce, an army biscuit 
completely riddled by a small beetle (Pinus, sp.?); Mr. R. Wilding, 
series of the very local sand-hill beetles Anzsotoma ciliaria and A. furva; 
Mr. W. Mansbridge, a long series of Lyocena ticavus from Delamere and the 
Crosbv sand-hills, including var. zcarinus and under-side variations with 
enlarged and confluent spots. 
We much regret to record the death of Dr. Arthur Vaughan, at the early 
age of 47. The Yorkshire Geological Society is much indebted to him 
for his investigation of the zones of the Carboniferous rocks. We also 
notice the announcement of the death of W. Rupert Jones, who was born 
in 1855. He was the son of T. Rupert Jones, and was for forty years 
assistant librarian of the London Geological Society. He had a wonderful 
knowledge of geological literature which was always available to workers. 
Naturalist 
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