1 88- Revie^vs and Book No f ices. 



Hepatics and a g'ood working- book which will be a great help in their studies 

 o\' this interesting but difficult group of plants. 



There is a good bibliography, which includes a list of the best works 

 of British and Continental writers on this tribe, and adds much to the 

 value of the book. 



We mav call attention more particularly to two papers b\" the late Dr. R. 

 Spruce. The first is on Marsupclhi Staberi n.sp. and some allied species o\ 

 European Hepaticae, by R. Spruce, jiublished in the ' Revue Brvoloogique 

 lor 1881, page 8g. This is a most excellent treatise, and although published 

 in a French periodical it is written in English, and is an excellent account 

 oi the division of the old g-enus Jungermajiia into the more modern 

 numerous genera. The second is the pamphlet on Cephalozia (a genus of 

 HepaticEe), its sub-genera and some allied genera, by Richard Spruce, 

 ]irinted for the author at Malton, 1884. This is a brochure of q6 pages, in 

 which is given the key to the new classification of the Hepaticae adopted 

 by the author in his great work, ' Hepaticas Amazonicje el Andinte.' Both 

 these ai^e treatises of the greatest value and learning, and the careful stud^' 

 of which will much assist all students of the British Hepaticse. — M. B. S. 



The twenty-sixth annual report of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomo- 

 logical Society has just been issued, and is principally devoted to an 

 illustrated paper on ' Our Cockroaches,' by Mr. E. J. Burgess Sopp. The 

 Society has also issued, separately, a catalogue of its library. 



The Conchological Society of Great Britain has just issuecl a \aluable 

 census of the • British Land and Freshwater Mollusca," by Lionel Adams. 

 Unfortimately, the reprint does not g^ive the names of the referees bv 

 whom these specific determinations of the shells submitted for record ha\e 

 been made. 



' The Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club for the Year 

 igoj' has been published. It is principally occupied by an interesting 

 botanical resume (including a description of the field meetings of 1902), 

 bv Miss E. M. Wood. 



'The F"iftieth Annual Report of the Nottingham Naturalists' Society' 

 (for 1901-2), just issued, contains two papers. The first is the presidential 

 address of Mr. W. Bradshaw, in which he reviews the work of the society 

 during- the half-century; the second being by Mr. J. J. H. Teall, on 'The 

 Life History of a Mountain Range.' 



Probably few provincial cities can boast of so successful an Astronomical 

 Society as Leeds, the tenth Journal and Transactions of which (for 1902) 

 are just to hand. It comprises nearly 100 pages, ever\' one showing 

 that the society is essentially a working society — the names appearing in 

 the list of officers being- a guarantee for this. The various aspects o'( 

 astronomy are dealt with by different writers in a particularly able manner. 

 An excellent portrait of the 'late' president, Mr. H. J. Townsend, forms 

 a frontispiece. 



The Transactions of the Citv of London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society for 1902, issued February 1903, price 2s., contains reports 

 o'i meetings with summaries of the more important exhibits, list of members, 

 and annual report. Several papers of interest read before the society are 

 also included, the more important being ' Observations on the early stages 

 o'i Phyllocnistis sujfusella Zell.,' bv A. Sich, ' Sfaiiropus fagi,' by A. W. Mera, 

 ' Lepidoptera in British Guiana in igoi,' by W. J. Kaye, and 'Importance 

 of certain larval characters as a g-uide to the classification of the Sphingids,' 

 by A. Bacot. 



Naturajist, , 



