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maximus, the mollusc he described being in reality Avion ater. It 

 would be an excellent thing if all would-be biologists or anatomists 

 were compelled first to go through a year or two's training in the 

 collection of natural history specimens in the field and their specific 

 determination in the closet, with the object not only of enlarging 

 their mental horizon, but also of impressing on their mind the 

 fundamental value of strict scientific accuracy and precision. 



We have, in conclusion, to mention the excellence of the many 

 clear illustrations by Mr. Hammond, which are placed where required 

 in the text, instead of being relegated to the obscurity of plates, and 

 to congratulate the author on the excellence and interest of his work. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Some of our readers will be interested to note that — beginning with last 

 November— the Manchester Museum is available for public inspection on Sundays. 



Some interesting observations on the teratology of Parnassia palnstris have 

 been made in the neighborhood of Scarborough by Mr. I. H. Burkill, who- 

 describes them in the 'Journal of Botany ' for January of this year. 



Our valued contributor, the Rev. E. Adrian WoodrufTe- Peacock, of Cadney 

 near Brigg, has recently been elected to the Fellowship of both the Linnean and 

 the (ieological Societies. 



The ninth volume of the * Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool 

 Biological Society '' shows that the Society is in as flourishing a state, and doing 

 as good work as ever, in the investigation of the marine life of the Irish Sea. In 

 addition to revisions of former lists, notes on individual species, and an account 

 of the investigations made in 1894 °& the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory,, 

 there is a report by Mr. Edwd. T. Browne, B.A., on the Medusa 1 of the district. 

 Some of the plates appear to be an advance upon those of former reports. 



From Mr. John E. Robson, of Hartlepool, we have received for notice ■ The | 

 Pterophorina of Britain ! — | a | Monograph | By I J. W. Tutt, Esq., F.E.S., 

 j . . 1 — j Reprinted from "The British Naturalist." | — | To be had from | 

 John E. Robson, Hartlepool.' In this book, which runs to 161 pages in length, 

 we get a full, detailed, and interesting account of what is known of the * Plume 

 Moths,' in which nothing is overlooked or neglected. Typographically, however, 

 the work is not ideally perfect, and it has two inexcusable faults, that the book is- 

 not dated, and that it does not show the original pagination. 



The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press have sent us * A Text-Book of 

 Zoogeography' by Mr. F. E. Beddard, M.A., which constitutes one of their 

 admirable series of Cambridge Natural Science Manuals, The subject of 

 Zoological Geography is herein handled with much ability by Mr. Beddard, who 

 adopts Mr. Sdater's system of zoological regions, and with the aid of a few very 

 simple maps, and some simple typographical methods of graphic representation, 

 explains the leading phenomena of distribution. We note that Mr. Beddard, as 

 l>ecomes the learned monographer of the Oligochcets, draws many of his illustra- 

 tions from that group, as well as from the higher and better-known groups. 



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