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 NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



The Anatomy, Physiology, Morphology, and Development of the 

 Blow Fly (Calliphora erythrocephala) : a Study in the Com- 

 parative Anatomy and Morphology of Insects ; with illustra- 

 tions from original draivings by the Author. By B. Thomp- 

 son Lowne. 2 vols. 8vo. London : B. H. Porter. 1890-95. 

 This work is the result of a series of investigations com- 

 menced by Prof. Lowne in 1868, and continued with brief inter- 

 ruptions to the present time. The two volumes, which have been 

 appearing in parts since 1890, are now completed, and contain 

 776 pages, illustrated with more than 500 original drawings, and 

 full references to 376 memoirs, which, with three or four excep- 

 tions, have been carefully studied by the author. There is a 

 copious index containing more than 3000 references, and as the 

 comparative anatomy of the various parts is given, the work will 

 be found a most useful aid to the study of the anatomy of insects 

 generally, on which subject we know of no book of similar extent. 

 The preparation of such a large number of illustrations as it 

 contains has naturally made it somewhat costly (the published 

 price being three guineas net), but the possessor of a copy will 

 have at command a veritable multum in parvo, the cream of a 

 small library on insect anatomy, elucidated and supplemented by 

 the author's remarks, the outcome of years of laborious research. 



A Year of Sport and Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, 

 Coursing, Falconry, and Fishing ; with Chapters on Birds 

 of Prey, the Nidification of Birds, and the Habits of British 

 Wild Birds and Animals. Edited by Oswald Crawfurd. 

 With numerous illustrations. 4to, pp. i-xii, 1-331. Lon- 

 don : Chapman & Hall. 1895. 

 Under this title Mr. Oswald Crawfurd, the late editor of 

 1 Black and White,' has brought together in most attractive form 

 a series of articles which were contributed by different writers to 

 that journal under the heading " Field Sports and Field Studies." 

 Seasonal phases of sport and natural history for every month of 

 the year are presented in no less than forty-five chapters, all of 

 which are appropriately illustrated, though in some cases the 

 drawing is not always accurate, The sketch of a Short-eared Owl 



