Reviews and Book Notices. 69 



BRADFORD AND NATURAL HISTORY. 



It is most gratifying^ to learn from the Yorkshire Observer 

 that the exhibition of natural history specimens, which was 

 arrang-ed in connection with the annual meeting- of the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union at Bradford, and was subsequently left 

 open for the public, has been an unqualified success. ' Thoug^h 

 comparatively little has been done to make the exhibition known, 

 it is admitted by the attendants at the hall that equal numbers 

 have been attracted by no art exhibition held in Bradford during- 

 recent years — last year's exhibit, of course, excepted. Every 

 afternoon, and on both evening^s when the building- was specially 

 kept open till nine o'clock, the room has been crowded, some- 

 thing- like a hundred persons being- frequently to be seen there 

 at one time. Representatives of the two societies concerned in 

 its organisation — The Bradford Scientific Society and the Brad- 

 ford Naturalists — have attended, and have done not a little, by 

 explanations, to interest the visitors. The exhibition has 

 'caught on' so effectively that it was kept open for another week, 

 and will doubtless do not a little to stir up the Museum Com- 

 mittee to make the natural history i-nuseum a permanent and an 

 effective educational institution of the city.' 



British Butterflies. By J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. Elliot Stock. 



The full title to this work, viz. : ' A Natural History of the British 

 Butterflies, their world-wide variation and g-eog-raphical distribution. A 

 text book for Students and Collectors,' fully describes its scope. The work 

 is being- issued in shilling- parts, two of which are before us. The first con- 

 tains pag-es 1-48 (General Observations on Butterflies), and pag-es 81-104 

 (in which details of Eg-g-laying-, Ovum, Habits of Larvse, &c., are given). 

 Part H. contains pag-es 5-8 (Eg-gs of Butterflies, &c. ), and pages 105-124. 

 Mr. Tutt's reputation is such that remarks on the value of this work are 

 unnecessary. There is nothing- to indicate how many parts will be issued, 

 but we understand from the author that there will be two volumes, and that 

 the first will contain twenty parts. 



Hugh Miller: A Critical 5tudy. By W. M. Mackenzie. London, 

 Hodder & Stoughton. 246 pp., 5/- net. 



\x\ this interesting little book Mr. Mackenzie very carefully reviews 

 Hug-h Miller and his work under the heads of early life and training, 

 literary style, history and folklore, religion and philosophy, geology- 

 researches, g-eolog-y-reconciliations, g-eolog-y — the development hypothesis, 

 politics, and ecclesiasticism and editorship. It is not necessary to inform 

 readers of the ' Naturalist" further of the nature of this work, which has 

 been written by one who has become thorougfhly familiar with Miller's many- 

 sided interests. Our marvel is, that in a certain ' literary ' review recently, 

 this book was referred to as " An account of the life of an extinct and 

 worthy Scotchman. . . . Mr. Miller appears to have been something of a 

 scientist -AS well ! ' 



1906 March i. 



