/Reviews and Book Notices. 279 



The part is neatly printed at Louth, but ought to have been 

 properly sewn by the binder. It is '' stabbecV througfh with wire^ 

 a double fault, which the publishers of scientific publications 

 should avoid like the devil does holy water. 



We note also the (no doubt inadvertent) absence of reference 

 to the fact that this is the second part of the L. N.U. Transac- 

 tions, the first having" been published in 1895, under the 

 Editorship af Mr. Walter F. Baker, F.E.S., of Gainsborough, 

 the founder and first secretary, which contains papers on 

 Lincolnshire Geology by Mr. F. M. Burton, on Cryptogams by 

 Mr. M. B. Slater, and on the Life History oi Hydrobiiis fiiscipes 

 by the Editor, besides presidential addresses by Mr. John 

 Cordeaux and Mr. F. M. Burton, the first two presidents, and 

 an exhortation on ' Work for Lincolnshire Naturalists ' by 

 Prof. L. C. Miall, besides a Secretar3''s report and a report of 

 the Museum Committee. 



May we hope that the Union will be able to publish a 

 similar instalment annually, and would suggest that future 

 parts be paged continuously with previous parts, instead of 

 independently. — R. 



The Butterflies of the British Isles. By Richard South, F.E.S. 



'Wayside and Woodland Series.' Published by Frederick Warne & Co., 

 London and New York. 6/- 



One's first thoug-ht, on seeing the title of this work, is to doubt whether 

 there is room for another book on British Butterflies even to get a foothold 

 among our literature on the subject ; but one does not spend man}' minutes 

 in its pages to be convinced that not only will it obtain a foothold, but will at 

 once allocate for itself a comforttible position. The book is different from its 

 contemporaries, and the difference is distinctly to its advantage. It aims at 

 being a pocket companion to the beginner student of our Rhopalocera, and 

 it will prove to be what it professes. Handy in size, neat in appearance, it 

 attracts at once, and the contents do not belie its outside attractive impres- 

 sion. Small and compact, as a field ijocket companion must necessarily be, 

 it is illustrated by no fewer than 750 figures on 127 plates, of which figures 

 450 are coloured, most being direct photographic reproductions from 

 t}-pical specimens by the three-colour process, and the effect is wonderfully 

 good, for, although a figure here and there is a little bit ' off",' such is almost 

 inevitable in a process the printing of which can scarcely yet have sur- 

 mounted every difficulty in its application. 



Part I. of the book gives a clear Life Cycle of the Butterfl}' from the ^%% 

 to the imago, followed by chapters on Collecting and Setting. Part IL, by 

 far the greater portion of the work, is devoted to the descriptions and 

 histories, w^th localities, etc., of the various species, the plates not only 

 giving very accurate coloured illustrations of all the British species and 

 many varieties, but accompanied in nearly all cases by black and white 

 plates representing the eggs, larvie, chrysalids, and food plants. 



The volume is well printed in clear type, and altog'ether is just such a 



book as we should have levelled in when we began collecting butterflies 

 long years ago. — G.T. P. 



1906 August I. 



