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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



A Guide to the Natural History of the Isle of Wight. Edited by 

 Frank Morey, F.L.S. William Wesley & Son. 



The natural history of the Isle of Wight required description, 

 and this book has gone a long way to supply the want. It is 

 the work of a considerable number of contributors, and, though 

 ' The Zoologist ' is outside a notice of the botanical subjects, we 

 will endeavour to deal with the other sections. 



The Editor supplies an interesting introduction, and this is 

 followed by " An Outline of the Geology," by G. W. Colenutt. This 

 is fully described, but we wish the Palseontological element had 

 been even more fully discussed, and some reference to the papers 

 on that subject by Hulke would have been more than interesting. 

 Professor John Milne writes on "Earthquakes," and naturally 

 we may rely on this authority telling us all that it is material to 

 know. Then we have a contribution by Mr. Eonald Poulton on 

 "Discoveries of Palaeolithic Implements." This prehistoric 

 section will bear amplification. We remember a paper by 

 Mr. A. L. Lewis " On the * Longstone ' and other Prehistoric 

 Remains," and also another by the Messrs. Price on " Excava- 

 tions of Tumuli on the Brading Downs " of the Island. Even 

 the Palaeolithic finds have not yet been exhausted, and we recall 

 an evening at the Anthropological Institute in 1871, when Mr. 

 Hodder Westropp exhibited a worked flint said to have been 

 found many years before on Ashey Down, which antedates the 

 finds recorded in 1886-89 as given by Mr. Poulton for priority.* 

 The Mollusca are fully treated by the Editor, the Arachnida by 

 Mr. F. P. Smith, and the Crustacea and Myriapoda are also 

 from the pen of Mr. Morey. The Insecta has fallen into good 

 hands : Mr. Burr is answerable for the Orthoptera, Mr. Lucas for 

 the Neuroptera (including the Odonata), and Mr. Claude Morley 

 has undertaken the Hymenoptera. The Coleoptera naturally 



* Cf. also " On Ventnor Flints," by H. M. Westropp (Journ. Anthrop. 

 Inst. iii. p. 69 (1873). 



