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clature which had been once more reviewed and revised, the President 

 concluded by referring to the losses by death during the year of several 

 Fellows of the Society and other Entomologists, special mention being 

 made of Mr. E. T. Atkinson, Mr. J. S. Baly, Mons. l'Abbe de Marseul, 

 Mr. Owen Wilson, Mons. Lucien Buquet, Mons. Eugene Desmarest, Prof. 

 Heinrich Frey, Dr. R. C. R. Jordan, Mr. W. S. Dallas, Dr. L. W. Schaufuss, 

 Dr. Hermann Dewitz, Mons. Louis Reiche, and Herr Peter Maassen. 

 A vote of thanks to the President for his services during the year and for 

 his address was proposed by Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., seconded by Mr. 

 M'Lachlan, F.R.S., and carried. Mr. M'Lachlan then proposed a vote of 

 thanks to the other Officers of the Society, which was seconded by Mr. S. 

 Stevens, and carried. Lord Walsingham, Mr. Goes, and Mr. Grut replied. 

 — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



The River-side Naturalist : Notes on the various forms of Life 

 met with either in, on, or by the Water, or in its immediate 

 vicinity. By Edward Hamilton, M.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 Illustrated with numerous Woodcuts. London : Sampson 

 Low, Marston & Co. 1890. 8vo, pp. 400. 



The author of this book, an accomplished angler, has been 

 so struck at the want of knowledge concerning common objects 

 of the country, displayed by friends who have accompanied him 

 in his " river-side rambles," that he has attempted to note down, 

 for their benefit and for that of others, some of the many in- 

 teresting observations which he has made by the river in the 

 course of his own experience. The result is a very pleasant 

 volume. 



As may be gathered from the title, he deals with a great 

 variety of subjects. Mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusca, 

 Crustacea, insects, and plants, are all dealt with, and the fishes 

 naturally receive a large share of attention. There is perhaps 

 not much in the text that will be new to naturalists of any 

 experience ; but then the book is intended obviously for the 

 inexperienced, and is designed to show how wonderfully in- 

 teresting a river-side ramble may become if the " contemplative 

 man " who wields the fly-rod will but use his eyes, his ears, and 

 his powers of observation and reflection. 



