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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Great Auk, or Gare-fowl — Symington Grieve. [Thomas C. Jack. 



*Topography and Natural History of Lofthouse and its Neighbourhood. — Geor<;e 

 Roberts.— Vol. 2, 1885. [Author. 



Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherlandshire, by T. E. Buckley and J. A. Harvie 

 Brown, 1884. [The Authors. 



Penzance IS'at. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. Report, 1884-5. [Society. 



Bristol Naturalists' Society — Proceedings, vol. 4, part 3, 1884-5. [Society. 



Bristol Naturalists' Society — Annual Report, etc., 1884-5. [Society. 



South London Microscopical and N. H. Club — 14th Report, 1884-5. [Society. 



Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club — 25th Report, 1884-5. [Society. 



Manx Note Book, edited by A. W. Moore.— July 1885. [Editor. 



Revue Bryologique — 12th Annee. No. 5. [T. Husnot, Editor. 



Grevillea, a quarterly record of Cryptogamic Botany, Sept. 1885. [Editor. 



New York Microscopical Society — ^Journal, June and July, 1885. [Society. 



Midland Naturalist for September 1885. [The Editors. 



The Young Naturalist for September 1885. [J. E. Robson, Editor. 



Tne Naturalist's World for September 1885. [P. Lund, Editor. 



Illustrated Science Monthly for September 1885. [Bogue, Publisher. 



Science Gossip for September 1885. [Chatto and Windus, Publishers. 



Memoirs marked ^ will be noticed in our Annual Bibliography of the Literature of the Physi- 

 cal Features and Natural History of the North of England. 



EXCHANGES. 



Notices of Exchange inserted free of charge to Subscribers. 



Bur-Reeds (see note at p. 341 of the present number). — Botanists are 

 requested to send specimens to Mr. W. H. Beeby, 14, Ridinghouse Street {not 

 * square ']. Langham Place, London, W. 



Wanted to Purchase. — Miall and Carrington's Flora of West Riding 

 of Yorkshire. Newest edition. — B. Hobson, Taplon Elms, Sheffield. 



Duplicates of Dried Plants.— L. C. 7th and 8th Edition : Nos. 7, 9, 

 II, 26, 40, 41, 273, 273^, 274, 275, 305, 325, 350, 372, 374, 564, 568, 572, 574, 

 576, 577, 581. 587, 591, 594, 595, 813, 816, 821, 823, 831, 835, 838, 856, 858, 

 875, 914, 998, 999, 1,007, 1,008, 1,039, 1,040, 1,261, 1,264, 1-265, 1,276, 1,277, 

 1,280, 1,282, 1,285, 1,294, 1,296, 1,297, 1.305, 1,314, 1.325, 1,326, 1,327, 1.330, 

 1.333, Selinu7n carvifolia. — H. Goss, Berrylands, Surbiton Hill, Surrey. 



WOODSIA HYPERBOREA.— A few spare specimens of this very 

 rare fern, obtained in Scotland this summer, on sale. Single fronds, 5s. each ; 

 complete specimens, los. Cash with order. — W. Robinson, West Bank, 

 Scarborough. 



The cheapest dealer in Birds, Skins, Eggs, Butterflies, Moths, Foreign Shells, 

 etc., is John Eggleston, Park Place, Sunderland. Lists free. 



