FARM VERMIN. 
Riper’s TECHNICAL Hanpzsooxs. No. 5.| Farm Vermin, | Helpful and 
Hurtful. | By | Various Writers | Edited by | JouN Warson, F.L.S., 
| London: | William Rider & Son, Limited| . i eG ie 
dein 8vo., 85 pages, cloth, price 2/6]. 
There are many ways of writing books on our British Quadrupeds, 
and the little book before us takes them from the standpoint of their 
utility or want of utility to the farmer. The list of writers include 
Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., M.P., who discusses the voles; Mr. 
Aplin, who takes the weasels, mole, and hedgehog; Mr. John Qondenae 
who writes upon the fox and the badger; Mr. C. B. Whitehead, B.A., 
who discusses the hare and rabbit; the Editor, who touches upon the 
bats, and Messrs. Cecil Warburton, M.A., and John Nisbet, D.Oec., 
who havea joint chapter on the rats and mice. In addition to this 
Dr. Nisbet has a couple of chapters on the Enemies to Woodlands 
and Nurseries, treating of many species from deer down to mice. 
There are about a dozen woodcut illustrations. A good deal of 
incidental information as to the natural history and economic value 
of each animal mentioned is given, with a few suggestions as to 
suitable remedies for the evils pointed out. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
From Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. we have sonics ‘ Bird Notes,’ by the 
late Jane Mary Hayward, edited by Emma Hubbard. volume of some 250 
pages, with fair illustrations, the may be regar arde : me a memento of its 
authoress, and as such will be appreciated by those who Pansy “pie her circle. The 
notes ae a adorn of go ise Saye birds and also of painstaking observation. Various 
poems intersperse the which give the appearance of ‘fillings up.’ The 
general ge-tp soi coli on the aabhahers, but we cannot see that there will 
be and for the book, beyond the euitaties of Devonshire, the 
It is with cae FL regret that we learn of the decease (on the 1st of March) 
of Mr. yoe Hagger, F.L.S., of Repton School, on whose tutorial staff he had 
i i i he too 
examining eagerl his 
collection of betes and a very good one of shells, which ne sath left in perfect 
condition published tee little enbe: If, but assisted Mr. W. Garneys in 
ears ag 
private circulation. He wasa native of the north co Shatitey, having been born at 
Cockermouth in 1824, and throughout his life he cherished a deep and patriotic: 
affection for the hills of his native Cumberland. 
Naturalist, 
