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Life History of British Serpents. By Gerald R. 

 Leighton, M.D. xvi + 383 pp., 7Jin. x 5 in., with 

 frontispiece and 49 other illustrations. (Edin- 

 burgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons. 

 1901.) 5s. net- 

 There are so few serpents in England, and so 

 much has been written about our native snakes, 

 that the author of this work may be admired for 

 his courage in issuing the volume. He has suc- 



Woodland, Field, and Shore. By Oliver G. 

 Pike. 282 pp., 1\ in. x 5 in., with 2 coloured plates 

 and 101 other illustrations. (London : Religious 

 Tract Society. 1901.) 5s. net. 



Some time ago we noticed another work by this 

 author, and this is very much upon the same plan. 

 It consists of a number of chatty chapters on bird 

 and other wild life, illustrated by pictures taken 

 by the author with a photographic camera. 



"Bkusher Mill-," Sxake-Caichkr. 

 (Frcm Leighton' s " Life History of British Serpents.") 



ceeded in producing one which, if it does not 

 claim to be highly scientific, will doubtless have a 

 large sale among that numerous type of readers 

 who prefer chatty pages and curious illustrations. 

 With regard to the latter, there are many of con- 

 siderable interest, most of them being reproduced 

 from photographs by the author. The book is 

 divided into two sections— the first of which, 

 Part I., deals with our three species of snakes ; 

 while Part II. is concerned with their distribution, 

 size, and relative frequency in the counties. The 

 publishers have kindly favoured us with the loan 

 of one of the pictures of a well-known character 

 in the New Forest. 



Practical Text-Book of Plant Physiology. By 

 Daniel Trembly Macdotjgall, Ph.D. xiv 

 + 352 pp., %\ in. x 6 in., with 159 illustrations. 

 (New York, London, and Bombay : Longmans, 

 Green & Co. 1901.) 7s. 6d. net. 



Dr. Macdougall, who is Director of the Labora- 

 tories, New York Botanical Garden, has prepared 

 this work with the assistance of a number of 

 botanists and physiologists, including Dr. C. C. 

 Curtis of Columbia University, Mr. J. E. Kirk- 

 wood of Syracuse University, and a number of 

 others. The work is very fully illustrated, and 

 the subjects are divided into short paragraphs with 

 distinctive side-headings. 



