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c The Natural History Review? No. XII., dated October, 1850. 

 Price Ss. 6d. London : Williams and Norgate. 



Concomitant with the increase in price of this work there seems 

 decrease in interest: all the "original communications" have ap- 

 peared in the Dublin newspapers, and some of them, we think, had better 

 not have been transferred to a scientific journal. One of the reviews 

 must, however, be noticed as very excellent : it is of Mr. Walker's 

 ' Insecta Britannica, Diptera,' and is signed " H. L." This review 

 extends to thirty pages, and displays an erudition which is very rarely 

 equalled : it is, in all respects, a valuable contribution to science. 

 Where the reviewer finds an opportunity of praising he praises heartily 

 and without reserve ; where he sees errors or omissions he points them 

 out with the greatest good feeling and fairness. 



The contents of this number are as under : — 



Reviews. — 'Popular Geography of Plants;' by E. M. C. ; edited 

 by Charles Daubeny. ' Popular History of British Lichens ;' by W. 

 Lauder Lindsay. ' Insecta Britannica, Diptera;' by Francis Walker. 

 ' Manual of British Butterflies and Moths ;' by H. T. Stainton. * Ferns 

 of Great Britain ;' by J. E. Sowerby. 'The Fern Allies;' a Supple- 

 ment to the preceding. 'British Poisonous Plants;' by Charles 

 Johnson. 



Original Communications. — Experiments on the effect of periodi- 

 cally abstracting Eggs from the Nests of Birds, and Notes on the 

 Change of Colour in Birds and on Edge-moulting ; by R. J. Mont- 

 gomery, Esq. [a paper concluded only]. Remarks on Moths which 

 cause Destruction in Granaries; by James Haughton, Esq., Jun. 

 On the Analysis of Spodumene and Killinite ; by the Rev. S. Haugh- 

 ton, F.T.C.D. On Botrychium Lunaria, its most remarkable varieties; 

 by J. R. Kinahan, Esq., M.B. On the Occurrence of Gonepteryx 

 Rhamni and Thecla Betulse in Kerry ; by W. Andrews, Esq. Dates 

 and Localities of some rare British Bees ; extract of a Letter from 

 J. C. Dale, Esq., A.M., F.L.S. On a Disease attacking the Minnow 

 (Leuciscus phoxinusj ; by E. Percival Wright, Esq., A.B. On the 

 Occurrence of Sciaena umbrina in Cork Harbour ; by R. Ball, Esq., 

 LL.D. First Supplement to the Catalogue of Coleoptera found in 

 the Neighbourhood of Dublin; by the Rev. A. R. Hogan, A.B. 

 Notice of two Irish Dipterous Insects; by A. H. Haliday, A.M. On 

 the Occurrence and Distribution of Anthrocera Minos in the West of 



