126 Notes and Comments. . 
now appears ‘in English for the first time. The translator, 
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, has surely rendered Fabre’s 
prose with the beauty and charm of the original, and the 
book possesses all the fascination and interest of the most 
romantic novel, yet is true withal; and there is not a sentence, 
hardly a single word, but anyone can understand it. The 
various phases of the lives of numerous forms of spiders are 
described in such a way that one wonders—cannot help won- 
dering—why al! these extraordinary stories were not available 
to English readers before. And the Preface, by Maurice 
Maeterlinck, is a masterpiece. We have never read a finer 
account of the smaller forms of life. 
PITY THE BIBLIOGRAPHER ! 
That indefatigable writer and artist and printer, Mr. S. L. 
Mosley, is producing The New Nature Study at sixpence a part, 
of which the first five are before us. We will admit, that from 
a bibliographer’s point of view Mr. Mosley has puzzled us. 
To take part V. which is described as ‘ 167 from the beginning ;’ 
this number must refer to some previous publication with which 
Mr. Mosley has been connected. There have certainly not been 
167 parts of a publication called Nature Study. Inside is a 
coloured plate of beetles, headed ‘ Nature Study, Vol XV. 
pl. 2.” There have not been XV. volumes of any such publi- 
cation. Next follows two pages on ‘ Insects,’ the first not 
numbered, the second numbered ‘ 4,’ and from the contents 
we learn that these are pages 3-4 of Vol. XV. Then follow 
four pages, dated Feb., 1913, and numbered 11 to 14, dealing 
with geology, and ‘autobiography,’ with an account of Mr. 
Mosley’s family, their names, etc. From the contents we learn 
that pages 11 and 12 form part of Vol. XVI., while pp. 13-14 
form part of Vol. XX. Next follow two pages dealing with 
sand, the first of which is not numbered, but is headed ‘ Vol. 
XXIII,’ and the second is numbered 2. The next page is 
also blank, followed by another page 2. These two pages are 
headed Vol. XXIV., and are entitled ‘ A Handbook on Eight- 
legged Animals,’ on the blank page, but ‘ 8-legged’ merely, 
on the list of contents. Facing this third non-numbered page is 
a plate, numbered Vol. XXIV, pl. 1.!! We then have a fourth 
non-numbered page headed Vol. XXY., and entitled ‘A Hand- 
book on Geography’; the ‘Handbook’ extends to two pages, 
and refers to ‘Abyssenia’ (sic). There is still another blank 
page, followed by still another page 2, which is headed Vol. 
XXII., and is “A Handbook on Legless Invertebrates.’ This 
‘Handbook’ refers to ‘ The Pisan Snail.’ 
s/s 
The death is announced of Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., Professor of 
Zoology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. 
Naturalist. J 
