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unbiased and competent scientific jurymen could be found who 

 would unanimously agree on a verdict at all. The question is 

 still an open one, but Lamarck has been unduly depreciated, and 

 will certainly come again to his proper recognition. 



A scientific appreciation of the biological writings of Samuel 

 Butler is somewhat of a snare. That versatile and clever writer 

 almost put himself out of court by the extreme candour of his 

 criticism and the freedom of his assertions, but nevertheless his 

 books are still very much alive, and Dr. Hartog has given a 

 very fair and judicial introduction to them. 



Notes on some Common and Rare BritisJi Birds. By J. E. H. 

 Kelso, M.D., &c. J. & J. Bennett, Ltd. 



It almost seemed that there was neither room nor demand 

 for another book on British Birds, but Dr. Kelso, in this 

 handy sized volume of a little over four hundred pages, with its 

 one hundred and thirty illustrations from photographs, has 

 proved the contrary. It can be perused with pleasure from 

 start to finish, because it has the bionomical charm ; he has 

 given his own observations, which are many and somewhat 

 largely original, while he has read his contemporaries and culled 

 much from them (names and refereDces being given). Very 

 much of the material is derived from experience on Hayling 

 Island. We shall not say again that nothing more can be 

 added to the literature of our British Birds. 



