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the amount of detailed information concerning them is so 

 large, and must involve such an immense amount of patient 

 labour in its compilation, that one wonders whether even 

 such an indefatigable worker as we all know Mr. Tutt to be, 

 can possibly carr}- on this work on the same scale right 

 through the British Lepidoptera. 



" British Dragon-flies," by W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 

 This important work should certainly tend to popularise 

 the study of this strangely neglected group of insects. Now 

 that workers have an authoritative text-book to which to 

 refer, with descriptions of all the British species, with ac- 

 counts of the habits and life-history of many of them, with 

 excellent coloured figures of both male and female of them 

 all, and also with full directions how to prepare specimens for 

 the cabinet, there is no doubt the group Odonata will attract 

 many more students ; and with more students we may hope 

 that the life-history of more of the species may be worked 

 out, even if we may not expect many additional species to 

 be discovered. 



" Insects, their Structure and Life," by Geo. H. Carpenter, 

 B.Sc, This is a primer of entomology of undoubted value 

 to the student of insect anatomy and classification. It 

 contains a useful bibliography of recent works on ento- 

 mology. 



Two more volumes of the Cambridge Natural History 

 have been issued. Vol. VI., " Insects," Part II., by David 

 Sharp, F.R.S. This volume concludes the insects, dealing 

 with the Hymenoptera (concluded from Part I.), the Cole- 

 optera, Strepsiptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Aphaniptera, 

 Thysanoptera, Hemiptera, and Anophera. Vol. IX., 

 " Birds," by A. H. Evans. A work dealing with the birds 

 of the whole world, and necessarily, therefore, much com- 

 pressed. 



" Flash-lights on Nature." by (the late) Grant Allen ; 

 illustrated with a fine series of drawings by F. Knock. 



"Wonders of the Bird World," by R. Bowdler Sharpe. 

 A capital popular work on ornithology. 



" Wild Life at Home : How to Study and Photograph 

 it." By R. Kearton. " Our Rarer British Breeding Birds : 

 their Nests, Eggs, and Summer Haunts," by R. Kearton. 

 Both these books are beautifully illustrated b}' photographs 

 taken by C. Kearton, often apparently at considerable risk 

 to life and limb. 



"The Rabbit," Fur, Feather, and Fin Series, by J. E. 

 Harting. 



