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excite and _— on cane which these are sure se pr a te 
There hav e be een some excellent ae in the magazines ; 
ally, eves: as it ought to be; for this, an —e matters of 
rier variety. Nothing can be better Slipted * enone the 
powers of observation in “the young. 
Sir John Lubbock’s lecture before the British Association last 
of articles in Natur phage ; and now these articles are collected 
to form this handy volume,—one of the ture Series, to which 
the author had Sea contrib uted his more elaborate and thor- 
ough essay on “The Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects.” As 
the author remarks, he “had made no serious study of Botany,” 
at which we do not wonder. As it is. few indeed can be expected 
to give their powers, with the success he has commanded, to so 
many engrossing subjects, financial, ethnological, zoological and 
other. But as an n entomologis ist, “the intimate relations which exist 
brought to 
from which I myself gona derived so = we happiness” a we 
may add science no little pn al urally suggested that a 
wider use might be made of them; and ‘this attr, active, — rather 
hastily prepared volume is the rest It. Not much in way of 
n 
sau are the most important and satisfact ctory. ‘They give an 
most flowers are adapted to Ube seous foritlbed ee the visits of in- 
sects, and through which these visits are secured, while others are 
in their way as well served by the winds. And there is an espe- 
cially Sntadatabh account of the modifications of the mouth-parts 
and legs of bees and butterflies, for their profit in their visits to 
flowers, while diy profit them. This is condensed from Herman 
ares and the illustrations are his 
the remaining chapters the: net of the principal British 
Saris are taken up seri im, and the fertilization of a good num- 
ber of them explained and illustrated, —sufficiently so in many 
cases, . mers in the earlier orders; but, the whole, if 80 wide 
a systematic meckinass were okadee taken, it were bet- 
ter “a cake it out more fu ee The little sath from Bentham’s 
Handbook, not havin pared in view of this subject, are 
here of small use. eyes are lsogpuaiiontad by larger and clear 
