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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



PSEUDOSCORPIONS. 



In the Journal of the Qitekett Microscopical Club, No. 79, Mr, 

 H. Wallis Kew gives ' An Historical Account of the Pseudo- 

 scorpion-Fauna of the British Islands,' in which he describes 

 most of the important publications dealing with these animals, 

 and he enumerates the twenty-four species* which are known 

 for the British Islands. He gives an interesting illustration 

 of a specimen of Cheiridium museorum as figured bv R. Hooke 

 in his ' Micrographia : or some Physiological Descriptions of 



Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses' which was 

 printed so long ago as 1665. Bearing the date in mind, this 

 drawing of the 'crab-like Insect ' by Hooke is a remarkably 

 good <-nc. We are kindly permitted to reproduce the illus- 

 tration. Notwithstanding the unfavourable conditions ob- 

 taining on account of the war, the volume recently issued i- 



very encouraging, and shews that much g 1 work has been 



done by the Club during the year. 



NATURAL HISTORY PUBLICATIONS, 



During the pasl two or three years, it has been painfully 

 necessar} to record the decease of many valuable scientific 

 publications, -<>me of which had appeared regularly for aboul 

 half a century or so. Such of these as are of general int< 

 may be found in the larger Libraries, and can be referred to, 

 if neces sary, by workers. On the other hand, the records! 



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