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Macmillan's American edition of 1895. Many competent editors 

 have been engaged in the production of these editions, and as 

 most of them have provided their own editorial notes without 

 reproducing those of their predecessors, it would not be un- 

 welcome to have yet another edition containing all the annotations 

 which have been made from time to time. 



The bibliography contributed by Mr. Martin is a most de- 

 sirable and useful compilation, and will be of great service to 

 librarians and all interested in Selbornian literature. The 

 volume also contains a biography and much information con- 

 cerning the village, church, and parsonage, which with all the 

 attributes of obscurity have become through the delightful 

 writings of a naturalist one of our well-known and not unvisited 

 literary Meccas. 



Bceveren (Castor fiber) i Norge, dens Udbredelse og Levemaade 

 (1896). AfK. Collett. Bergen: Griegs Bogtrykkeri. 1897. 



This brochure on the Beaver in Norway is written by Prof. 

 Collett, of Christiania, and is " Separataftryk af Bergens 

 Museums Aarbog, 1897." Scandinavian scientific literature not 

 infrequently appears in the English language, and in the publica- 

 tion under notice Prof. Collett has not trusted to a general 

 knowledge of Norwegian, in which it is written, but has appended 

 an excellent English summary of its contents. 



" The Beaver still belongs to the fauna of Norway, and will, 

 in all probability, be retained amongst it well into the next 

 century, provided only the small amount of care is taken in 

 protecting it as hitherto." Even at the close of the seventeenth 

 century the Beaver had begun to decrease in numbers, though up 

 to the middle of the eighteenth century they were " probably 

 still distributed through most of the woodland valleys, from the 

 southernmost parts of the country, to the farthest confines 

 of Finmarken," and a great number of names, to be met with 

 almost everywhere throughout the land, still bear the designation 

 of the Beaver (Bjor-, Bjur-, Bover-, &c.)* 



* In France we have similar survivals, bearing witness to its wide distri- 

 bution in that country, as Bievre, Beuvron, Beuvray, &c. In this country, 

 Beverley, Bevere (near Worcester), and Nant Fran^on (the glen of the 

 beavers), in North Wales, are cases in point. 



