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lengthy instructions, but has rather sought to give a condensed 
statement of the results of an extended experience. 
The book comprises instructions for collecting and skinning 
birds, making skins, mounting birds and making stands; also 
similar directions for collecting, skinning or preparing for the 
museum mammals as well as reptiles, batrachians and fishes. 
The wood-cuts, though rude, are sufficiently well adapted for 
“their purpose, and the book will be an indispensable guide to 
amateurs and useful even to experienced taxidermists, 
SAUNDER’s INsEcts Injurious TO Frurts.'—This is a well pre- 
pared and very useful compilation from the works of our eco- 
nomic entomologists, coupled with the results of the experience 
and observation of twenty years. The work is thoroughly well 
done, both as regards its simple, clear style, its freedom from 
technicalities, its abundant and well printed illustrations (but few 
being poor, though most of them are familiar) and the judicious 
directions for removing the pests. To the fruit-grower it will be 
4 great boon. The book is so well calculated to meet his every- 
day wants, that the demand for it will be and should be ever in- 
creasing. In other words the book is destined to be the standard 
authority on this all-important branch of applied entomology. 
Although the wood-cuts and source of information are acknow- 
ledged in the preface with every disposition to give full credit to 
the original authorities, yet we should prefer to see an occasional 
reference in the body of the work to the author from whom de- 
tailed statements are taken. The average fruit-raiser will not 
Care, perhaps, to be troubled with such reference, still it is giving 
farther credit to an author who has worked laboriously upon the 
life-history and ravages of some insect, and lends additional au- 
thority to the author’s statements. This is not said by way of 
criticism, for our genial friend, the author, has done himself very 
great credit in this work, and rendered excellent service to agri- 
culture as well as to beginners in entomology. 
Mason’s Minute Structure oF THE CENTRAL Nervous Sys- 
TEM OF CERTAIN REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS?—This important 
work of Dr. J. J. Mason upon the minute structure of the central 
nervous system contains a magnificent series of plates, taken by 
ne artotype process from negatives made by the author, illustra- 
tive of numerous reptiles and of the following batrachians: Rana 
Pipiens, R. halecina, Menopoma allegheniense, Diemyctylus torosus, 
_ and Siren lacertina, Twelve sections of the spinal cord of Rana, 
five of that of Menopoma and two of that of Siren are given. 
Substantia reticularis, a network of connective tissue peculiar to 
Injurious to Fruits. By WILLIAM SAUNDERS. Illustrated with 440 wood- 
œs Philadelphia, 1883, J. B. Lippincott & Co. 12mo, pp. 436. $3. 
a * Minute Structure of the Central Nervous System of certain Reptiles and Ba- 
~ Sechians of America. Series A. By Dr. J. J. MASON. Newport, 1879-82. 
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