NOTES AND LITERATURE. 
GENERAL BIOLOGY. 
Jenkins and Kellogg on Nature Study. — Under the title of 
Lessons in Nature Study Professors Jenkins and Kellogg of Stanford 
University have issued a volume (Whitaker & Ray, San Francisco) 
which should be of great service to teachers. It contains simple 
directions for the study of natural objects within reach of children. 
Among these are the dandelion, the mosquito, the toadstool, pond 
insects, spiders, crystals, ferns, birds, etc. These lessons are based 
on actual experience in dealing with children. The book is well 
illustrated and fairly printed. Bis, 

ZOOLOGY. 
« Bird Watching " ! is the modest title of a new volume in the 
Haddon Hall Library. There are a dozen chapters, dealing with a 
variety of British birds, and constituting a record of patient * watch- 
ing" of great plover on open, sandy wastes ; wheatears on warren 
lands; great skuas and shags on far northern islands ; winter birds 
at a straw stack, etc. "The account of the actions of these and other 
birds often takes the form of long extracts from the author's note- 
book, but his personality and feeling for style give his observations 
an unusually bright and readable character. Occasionally he pushes 
his fancies to the verge of extravagance, and frequent digressions 
increase the burden of legitimate detail which the reader willingly 
bears. While there is constant evidence of painstaking accuracy of 
statement, the author's interest in the problems connected with the 
evolution of habit and plumage tempt him often into rather fruitless 
speculation. : 
The book must be very welcome to the lovers of British birds and 
will be read with interest not only by American ornithologists but 
' Selous, Edmund. Bird Watching. The Haddon Hall Library. London, 
J. M. Dent & Co., 1901. 8vo, x + 347 pp., 14 illustrations. 
