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he vised to give at Huyton Park, thirty or more years ago, well 

 remember what a charming host he made. 



For some years he was a Fellow of the Linnean Societ}-, and 

 had been a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London since 

 1890. 



In business he was for man}' years a partner in the well- 

 known Liverpool firm of Homgeopathic Chemists, Messrs. 

 Thompson and Capper, but he ceased to take an active part 

 in it about fifteen years ago. He was indeed one of the first 

 promoters of Homoeopathy in Liverpool, and it was greatly 

 owing to his efforts that the Hahnemann Hospital was built, 

 of which he was Honorary Secretary for fifty-seven j'ears. 



His remains were cremated at the Anfield Crematorium, and 

 at the funeral service, the large company of relatives and friends 

 assembled, included members of the Entomological Society of 

 London, and of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 

 Society. 



He left four sons and four daughters. One of the latter, 

 herself an ardent naturalist, married Dr. H. H. Corbett, of 

 Doncaster, who has for many years been a prominent member 

 ■of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Lnion, and at the present time 

 is President of its Entomological Section. — G. T. P. 



Mineralogy, by F. H. Hatch, Ph.D., F.G.S., etc. P'ouith Edition, 

 pp. X. + 253, 1912. London: \\'hittaker & Co. 4/- net. 



The fact that this handy text-book has now reached its fourth edition 

 speaks well for its popularity. Tlie present edition has been entirely re- 

 written and enlarged, and is illustrated by 124 diagrams and blocks from 

 photographs. Tlie lists of localities in wliich the various minerals occur 

 seem to have been most carefully compiled. 



Photomicrographs of Botanical Studies. Published by Flatters, Mel- 

 borne & McKechnic, Ltd., Alancliester. 62 pp., 2/- net., n.d. 



This is a little volume of 103 photomicrographs which the authors 

 claim " covers practically the whole range of study requisite for the 

 Botanical Student.' Tiiis may be a matter of opinion ; but certainly 

 "the photographs on the whole are of a high order, and include many 

 sections which will be both useful and interesting to the student. The 

 subjects include Alga\ Fungi, Liverworts, Ferns, Horsetails, Club Mosses, 

 Fine, and Flowering I^lants. It is a pity to hnd, however, that the label- 

 ling of the parts has been done in a misleading and inaccurate waj*. To 

 give a few examples of misapplied names, the sections of thistle leaf, 

 wheat stem, and ' Berbery ' leaf, are said to be attacked by uredospores, 

 teleutospores and ' jrcidiospoixs ' respectively, of Pitccinia graminis, 

 which gives a fundamentally wrong idea of the life-cycle of this parasite. 

 The steles of Selaginella are called ' vascular bundles.' Section 30 might 

 ])ass for that of a stem, but not a ' root of bean.' A pine seed is described 

 as a ' mature ovule,' and wiiat is called a ' L. S. Emlaryo sac ' of wheat is 

 misleading in almost every detail. Tiie fruit coat of Tviticum sativum is 

 marked 'pericarp of seed,' while tiic fruit ot Alexanders is so labelled as to 

 suggest that a mericarp is a seed. It is also disappointing to|hnd that in 

 only two cases is t'ae mngnification gi\-en. 



Naturalist, 



