Notices of New Books. 4885 



edited by Frederick Curry, M.A. 'Lettsonian Lectures on Pulmonary 

 Consumption;' by Theophilus Thompson, M.D., F.R.S. 



Notes and Correspondence : — Feet and Wings of Insects ; by Mr. 

 John Tyrrell. The Markings of the Pleurostigmy, &c. ; by Mr. G. 

 Hunt. Definition of Delicate Test Objects ; Anon. Cheap Micro- 

 scopes. Cilia in Diatomacese ; by Mr. J. Hogg. New Mode of Illu- 

 mination ; by Dr. Wright. On the Aperture of Object-glasses; by 

 Mr. J. D. Sollitt. On Washing and Concentrating Diatomaceae ; by 

 Dr. Munro. On Camphylodiscus Clypeus ; by Mr. R. Wigham. 

 Cilia on the surface of Confervae ; by Dr. Kingsley. On an Easy 

 Method of Wiping thin Glass Covers ; by William Hodgson. 

 Metallic Impressions of Microscopic Objects ; by Mr. Wenhara, 

 Note on Dr. Griffiths' paper on Angular Apertures; by the Editors. 



Proceedings of Societies : — Microscopic, Royal. 



Zoophytology. 



( A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles' By Philip 

 Henry Gosse, A.L.S. Part I. London : Van Voorst. 1855. 

 203 pp. 12mo, 335 figures in wood. Price 7s. 6d. 



The author's preface will thoroughly explain the object and 

 scope of this little work. I have great pleasure in giving it entire. 

 Mr. Gosse has certainly followed out his programme most usefully, 

 although perhaps imperfectly, and we gladly accept this little sum- 

 mary of sea-side lore as an unassuming travelling companion that 

 will always be in our pocket when we visit the coasts of our sea-girt 

 isle. "Imperfectly !" Of course we must explain our meaning: 

 Mr. Gosse is not always at home in his subject, and is compelled 

 to seek information from scattered and sometimes rather obscure 

 sources : thus, he tells us " Of the hundreds of thousands of insects 

 known to exist but two live in the sea." The entomological reader 

 will be surprised to hear that these two are Aepus marinus and Micro- 

 lymma brevipenne. These are land, not marine insects, and are only 

 submerged at certain states of the tide, just in the same way as Aepus 

 Robinii, Broscus cephalotes and a host of others, but the truly marine 

 and highly interesting Macroplea Zosterse is entirely omitted. Now 

 those who have read Mr. Gosse's capital account of Zostera marina, 

 the food-plant of Macroplea, will not suppose him unacquainted with 

 the beetle, but may infer that he did not know its name, or, more 

 strange still, was not aware that it was a true insect. Doubtless 

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