278 /^('vi('7vx and Rook Xotives. 



species, thus giviiiji^ at a i;lance a conspectus of the county 

 fauna. 



It is a pleasure to note that the author has placed his collec- 

 tion of the Flies of Durham in the Newcastle Museum, and we 

 hope that no class-lecturinj^ to school children is permitted in 

 the Museum, for nothing can be more destructive to insect 

 collections than the orderly measured tramp of well-drilled 

 scholars by reason of the vibration of the structure thereby 

 produced. 



The author and the Natural History Society are to be 

 cong^ratulated most warmly on the production of this most 

 useful volume. — R. 



Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union Transactions. Indited 

 by Arthur Smith, F.L.S., F.E.S. Printed by Wij^^^en Bros., 

 Louth. 8vo. , 74 pau;"es. 



We have to cong-ratulate our Lincolnsliire friends on the 

 publication of this the second part of their Transactions, and 

 upon the excellent and varied nature of its contents. 



A list of officers and of members is followed by a statement 

 of objects and rules, a balance sheet, and a resume (brief but 

 interesting-) of the Field meeting-s held during- the twelve years' 

 existence of the Union, and g^iving- fuller details of the meeting's 

 of later date. 



A portrait and short notice of the Union's first President, 

 the late John Cordeaux, recalls vividly to mind the belo\ed 

 personality of an enthusiastic field-observer. 



The next paper, on ' The Stoat and its Ways,' a delightful 

 piece of Nature-study, by the Rev. K. Adrian WoodruflFe 

 Peacock, F.L. S., forms the presidential address for the year 

 1905. 



An excellent detailed list of the ' Non-Marine Mollusca of 

 Lincolnshire,' by Mr. C S. Carter, of Louth, embodies the 

 work of no fewer than twenty-three enthusiastic workers at 

 the rich and varied mollusca fauna of I>incolnshire, and includes 

 loy out of the 144 possible species — a good proportion — as 

 well as 133 varieties and three monstrosities. 



The part concludes with an admirable piece of lield-geologv, 

 illustrated by a plate and process blocks, in which the worthy 

 l"!ditor of the Xalnralisl (Mr. T. Sheppard, F.G.S.) describes 

 the structure of his birthplace, in ' Notes on the Geolog^y of 

 South l-'crriby.' 



NatiiralUt, 



