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NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



The British Tunicata ; an unfinished Monograph by the late 

 Joshua Alder and the late Albany Hancock. Edited by 

 John Hopkinson ; with lives of the Authors by Canon A. 

 M. Norman and the late Dennis Embleton. Kay Society. 



In ' The Zoologist ' (1905, p. 319) a notice was given of 

 the first volume of this excellent publication. Vol. ii. has 

 now appeared, in which the work is continued in the same 

 thorough manner, and marked by a similar loving care of which 

 we have already attempted an appreciation. It is therefore 

 possible to confine ourselves on this occasion to the notice of a 

 prominent feature in this volume, consisting of biographical 

 notices of both Alder and Hancock. In the previous volume a 

 portrait of Alder appeared, in the second volume one of Han- 

 cock constitutes the frontispiece. " Alder and Hancock were 

 naturalists of a bygone time. With only very moderate advan- 

 tages as regards early education, they progressed greatly in 

 knowledge by private study as years went by. An intense love 

 of nature absorbed them, and they realized that everything else 

 must be sacrificed to allow them to find out nature's secrets. 

 They were not well off; with the little they had they were con- 

 tent; thought of marriage had to be given up, for nature must 

 be their spouse." So long as zoology escapes the limitation of 

 a profession such men will be honoured and encouraged ; their 

 disinterested zeal is the compensation for lack of scientific 

 training. 



The Letters to Gilbert White of Selborne from his intimate friend 



and contemporary the Rev. John Mulso. Edited, with Notes 



and an Introduction, by Kashleigh Holt-White, M.A. 



K. H. Porter. 



Most naturalists will find these letters a somewhat barmecide 



feast. Excepting the fact that anything relating to Gilbert 



White has a literary interest, it is difficult to understand why 



