334 Reviews and Book Notices. 
able manner in which he has executed his task—first as regards the working 
up of the more neglected groups of the invertebrata, and of the more 
neglected areas of the county, in which he has been much aided by the 
Rev. Alfred Thornley and other workers ; secondly, by his invocation of 
the aid of specialists in certain groups, particularly of such as the Rey. 
Hilderic Friend, to whom is due the working out of the Oligochaets or 
earthworms ; and thirdly, in respect of the clean and statesmanlike 
manner in which the book has been written. The county is fortunate 
in having so rich an area of aboriginal ancient woodland as is included in 
the famous Forest of Sherwood, a veritable paradise for insects, especially 
when we consider that these suffer so much from the diligence of agri- 
cultural man, to say nothing of the golfer and the automobile. Problems 
of distr ibution suggest themselves and. call for explanation or investigation. 
Reference is made to single occurrences of Papilio machaon at W elbeck 
and Newark with a presumption of having been accidentally imported. 
Doubtless many are bred in captivity and escape, but the records quoted 
are so ancient that it is quite possible for the species to have existed. 
Evidences of decreases and extinctions among other Lepidoptera bristle 
throughout the work. The occurrences of the Hornet are singularly like 
Yorkshire experience, where examples have been taken wild which are 
undoubtedly correctly determined, and yet the species is not native. 
One of the most curious problems of range is that of Hygromia striolata 
(vufescens), of which there is no reliable evidence whatever of its occurrence 
in Notts, and yet it occurs more or less commonly in all the surrounding 
counties, in Leicestershire so near as Melton Mowbray, in Derbyshire at 
Matlock, and in South Yorkshire at Barnsley, w hile in Lincolnshire it 
occurs in 23 out of the 34 districts into which the county is divided for 
natural history work, and it occurs in three of the five divisions bordering 
Notts. The problem of Hygvomia vevelata is of another kind ; the speci- 
mens were correctly named, but the locality stated was impossible for an 
inland county. The rediscovery of Acocephalus trifasciatus after more 
than 80 years since it was last indicated as British is interesting ; as also 
the note of five Notts species of Tvphlocybe which have not so far occurred 
elsewhere in Britain. The book is well and artistically printed in clear, 
bold, readable type. The use of bold-faced letter for scientific names, 
and the avoidance of the use of ‘small caps’ is altogether to the good. 
The volume is well and tastefully bound too. There are, however, things 
that one misses. One is a bibliography of the principal local works and 
papers under each group treated of. Another is a short readable summary 
of the physical features of the county, with such a sketch map of the soils 
of the county as might have usefully occupied a single page.—R. 


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The 45th Annual Report and Proceedings of the Chester Society of 
Natural Science, Literature and Art is to hand (48 pages), and contains a 
summary of the Society’s work during the year. 
Lincolnshive Notes and Queries for July contains an article on th€ 
River Humber, and also an illustrated note on the Spout of a Roman 
Terra Cotta Jug, in the form of a woman’s head, found in Lincolnshire, 
the latter being by Mr. T. Sheppard, M.Sc. 
Hull Museum Publication 104, has just been issued (32 pages, 1d.) and 
is illustrated by numerous half-tone blocks, etc. It is almost entirely 
devoted to the old time Fishing Industry. The articles deal with Sailors’ 
Remembrances ; Four Early Hull Built Steamers ; The Whaler, ‘ Roval 
Bounty, ’ of Leith; Legacy of Pictures to Hull Museums ; The Wilson 
Liner ‘Rollo’ : Hull and the Revenue Cutter Days; The ‘ Pacific’; A 
Relic of Old Shipping Days; The Hull Steamship ‘Leopard’; The 
Frozen up Whaler ‘lane’ of Hull ; Hull’s Whaling Days, and Recollections 
of a British Columbian. 
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Naturalist, 
