THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 105 
Preserving” objects of Natural History in all departments. No. ror, for 
May, 1873, is now before us ; it opens with an illustrated account of the 
plant-crystals, Raphides, &c., by Prof. Gulliver ; then follows “ Notes on 
Collecting and Preserving Land and Fresh-Water Shells ;” “ Records of 
Rare Plants,” the ‘‘ Origin and Distribution of the Insects of the British 
Isles,” “ Comparative Size of Animal Hairs,’ ‘Gossip’ on Microscopy, 
Zoology, Botany, Geology, &c. 
The Scottish Naturalist (Perth, Scotland) is an excellent quarterly 
magazine of Zoology and Phytology, published by the Perthshire Society 
of Natural History. With the number for January last the second volume 
was commenced, and the size of the publication enlarged from 32 to 48 
pages—a notable sign of progress. Among the articles of interest in the 
last two numbers we may mention that on “The Occurrence of the 
Hooded Seal at St. Andrews,” by Mr. R. Walker ; ‘‘ Memoirs on Scottish 
Tenthredinide,” with a beautiful colored plate of Wematus gallicola, by 
Mr. P. Cameron, jun.; a paper by the Editor (Dr. F. Buchanan White) 
on the extraordinary occurrence of Vanessa antiopa in Great Britain last 
year; papers on Scottish Diptera, Spiders, Tortrices, Galls, &c., by various 
authors; an article on “ Polarity in the Geological Distribution of 
Genera,” by the Rev. J. Wardrop; and instalments of an excellent 
“ Insecta Scotia ”—Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. We heartily wish the 
publication the fullest success. 
Newman's Entomologist (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.) and 
Zoologist (Van Voorst)—for which we are indebted to our friend Mr. Reeks 
—continue to maintain their respective characters: the former as a 
recorder of captures, varieties, ‘exchanges,’ &c. ; the latter chiefly as an 
Ornithological magazine,though singularly enough, we always find in it the 
fullest and best reports of the meetings of the Entomological Society of 
London. 
The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (London: Van Voorst) appears 
to us to be better maintained and of more general interest than formerly. 
From the authors we have received (Votes on Chalcidie (Parts 1 to vii), 
by Francis Walker, Esq. ; Vote on a Chinese Artichoke Gall, by Albert 
Muller, Esq. (from the Linnean Society’s Journal); and two papers Or 
Modern Glacial Action in Canada, by the Rev. W. Bleasdell (from the 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society). 
Turning to this side of the Atlantic, we may notice first the Proceedings 
and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science (Part n., 
