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‘are not named, but the paper can be obtained at Dudley House, 
Southampton Street, W.C. The magazine is a large quarto, 
printed on art paper, and many of the numerous illustrations 
are on tinted mounts. Each part contains sixty-six pages. 
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHS. 
The parts already issued contain a wonderful series of 
photographs from nature, care being taken to exclude any 
thing in the form of a ‘faked’ print. Perhaps the most 
remarkable are Mr. R. B. Lodge’s ‘ Vultures’ and “ Eagles.’ 
Dr. F. Ward follows close with his ‘ photography under water.’ 
The Editor, Mr. Douglas English, illustrates and describes 
sand wasps, the wild cat ; and birds, reptiles, etc. are portrayed 
by M. D. Haviland, L. E. Adams, K. G. Blair, E. G. Boulenger, 
A. Taylor, Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, G. D. Ferguson, A. R. Haigh- 
Brown, R. Hancock, N. Gale, W. Farren, H. Murchison, and 
others. We only hope the journal may have the success it 
certainly deserves, but we sadly fear that the price of thirty- 
four shillings per annum is rather more than the public cares 
to pay—even for so fine a publication. 
WATER ‘ DIVINING.’ 
In view of the remarks we-recently made in reference to 
water ‘divining,’ it is of interest to note that The Sanitary 
Record and Municipal Engineering has published the report 
of the Committee of Scientists who were present at the water 
divining tests held recently at Guildford by that, journal. 
Their general conclusions are : (a) “ That whatever sensitiveness 
to underground water may exist in certain persons, of which 
some evidence has been given, it is not sufficiently definite 
and trustworthy to be of much practical value’; (5) ‘ More- 
over, the lack of agreement with each other shows that it is 
more a matter of personal mentality than any direct influence 
of the water. The diviners, as_a rule, confine their attention 
to small streams of water, and as there are few places where 
these cannot be found they may well show a large percentage 
of success.’ It will be remembered that a dozen ‘ dowsers ’ 
took part in the test. One of the sites to which they were 
taken was the top of a reservoir masked by a lawn, but none 
of them detected the fact. Two sewers, and an exceedingly 
powerful spring, which were known to lie under the water- 
finders’ other sites, they also failed to discover. The Committee 
testify to the dowsers’ honest faith in their own powers, but 
the report appears finally to dispose of any hope of proving 
the reality of those powers by scientific methods. 
MOORLOG. 
