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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



An interesting address by the president is given " On Floral Constancy and 

 Mutability/' There is also a third appendix to the " Flora of Liverpool/' by 

 Mr. Robert Brown ; and a most useful list of " Books useful in the study of 

 Natural History," with prices and publishers names. Altogether it is a most 

 interesting and useful pamphlet. 



The Naturalists' Monthly, 



We have been favoured with an advance copy of this new candidate for 

 public favour, which is edited by Dr. J. W. Williams, an old contributor to 

 our own pages. It is difficult to speak of the scope of a magazine from a 

 single number, but there is certainly a wide enough range in the subjects of 

 the various articles that appear in No. 1. of this Journal. "The Pathology 

 of the Celandine/' in which some of the fungi affecting it are described ; " The 

 Evolution of the Fishing Hook, from the Flint Hook of Pre-historic Man to 

 the Salmon Hook of the Present Day," a most interesting and suggestive 

 paper ; " A Study in my Garden/' of which the present instalment is prin- 

 cipally devoted to the Aphides; "Binary Suns," an account of double or 

 or other multiple star systems; "Charles Robert Darwin, a Biography," are 

 all articles as suitable for the general reader as the specialist, and may be 

 taken as a sample of the varied contents. Other articles are more for the 

 specialist, the Mollusca appearing to have a preference. Our ubiquitous 

 friend, W. Harcourt Bath, contributes a number of short paragraphs on 

 a variety of subjects. Altogether it is as good a sixpenny worth as we 

 seen for some time. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Vanessa Polychlorus in South Knapdale, Argyllshire. — I have 

 pleasure in recording the capture of a specimen of the Large Tortoiseshell 

 butterfly ( Vanessa polychlorus ), which I secured near Castle Sweyn, South 

 Knapdale, Argyllshire, on July 20th. Along with some friends I had paid 

 a visit to Old Kilmory graveyard, a very ancient burial place on the 

 Sound of Jura, and was returning to visit Castle Sweyn, when I observed 

 the specimen fliting about the garden, attached to a deserted house in a very 

 lonely spot. I quickly netted it, but though I looked carefully for any other 

 specimens that might happen to be in the locality, I was not fortunate in 

 seeing any others. There were plenty of V. urticce flitting about, but th 

 larger species was quite recognisable from these. Although I knew th 

 species to be uncommon in Scotland, I had no idea that it had never bee 

 recorded in Newman's and Stainton's comprehensive works, which 1 found t 



