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history and scientific matters. In the three parts before us we 
notice articles on rock gardens, oak galls, insects, the nightingale, 
etc. There are also three articles by Sir Ray Lankester, 
entitled, ‘Science at Leisure.’ They deal with the large shells 
in the Suffolk Crag stones, etc. These are very well illustrated. 
LIVERPOOL BIOLOGISTS. 
Volume 28 of the valuable Proceedings and Transactions 
of the Liverpool Biological Society (498 pp., 21/-) has been 
issued. It contains the presidential address of Dr. C. J. 
Macalister on ‘Some Relationships between Education and 
Co-ordination of Function.’ Prof. W. A. Herdman gives his 
A remarkable Plankton haul of the Ctenophore, 
Pleurobranchia pileus: natural size. 
usually full and scholarly © Report of the Liverpool Marine 
Biological Committee and their Biological Station at Port 
Erin ’ (this being the twenty-seventh) ; there is also the‘ Report 
on the Investigation carried on during 1913, in connection 
with the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries’ Laboratory at the Univer- 
sity of Liverpool, and the Sea-Fish Hatchery at Piel, near 
Barrow,’ by Prof. Herdman, Mr. A. Scott and Dr. J. Johnstone. 
The above occupies nearly 300 pages. Mr. H. C. Chadwick 
contributes a memoir on ‘ Echinoderm Larve.’ There are 
numerous plates, charts, etc., and whether considered from a 
scientific or economic point of view, the record is a remarkablé 
one. We are permitted to reproduce one of the illustrations. 
1915 Mar. 1. 
