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BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 
British Butterflies | being | a Popular Hand-Book for Young | Students 
and Collectors | By | J. W. Turt, F.E.S., | [eight lines of titles] | 
London : | George Gill & Sons, | Minerva House, Warwick Lane, E.C. | 
1896. [Crown 8vo, 476 pages and 9 plates, price SST: 
THE author of the book now before us has for his design to produce 
an ‘up-to-date book on British Butterflies in which the recent and’ 
generally-accepted schemes of classification are [to be] embodied. 
and logically set forth,’ and to prevent the young entomologist from 
having to unlearn what information he may have gleaned in his 
reading. 
With these objects our author enters very fully and clearly into’ 
the various subjects which have of late years occupied the attention 
of lepidopterists, and it is a striking exemplification of the change — 
hich ; 
which has come over our lepidopterists to find a text-book of 
butterflies which gives synonymy and well-thought-out chapters on 
Variation and Hybernation, and which emphasises the absolute 
necessity of labelling all insects with dates, localities, and other 
particulars. 
he author also expresses sound views on the necessity of. 
expressing the relationship of species by the correct use of generic 
names, and does not shrink from bringing the nomenclature of our 
insular insects into line with that used for the group at large in 
accordance with their natural affinities. Chapters on the practical 
work of collecting and preparation are given, and each species is 
treated of comprehensively if somewhat briefly, no aspect of the 
subject being overlooked. 
As to the get-up of the book it is nicely bound in an ornamental 
cloth case, with all edges gilt, and the type is clear and readable. 
We would however suggest to the publishers the vast improve- 
NOTE—BOTANY. 
An East Riding Sedge: a Correction.—I wish to correct a mistake in the: 
name of a Carex which occurs in the 99th circular of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union, published in 20 of its ‘Transactions.’ When I went over the ground 
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