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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Natural History Journal, February 1887. [Mr. J. Edmund Clark, Editor. 



The Young Naturalist, Part Ixxxvi, for February 1887. [Mr. J. E. Robson. Editor. 

 Science Gossip. No. 266, for February 1887. [Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Publishers. 

 The Naturalists' World, vol. 4, No. 38, for February 1S87. [Mr. Percy Lund, Editor. 

 The Midland Naturalist, No. no, for February 18S7. [The Editors, Birmingham. 

 Edinburgh Royal Physical Society. — Proceedings, Sessions 1878-79 to 1885-86. 



7 Parts. - [The Society. 



Strasburger's Hand-book of Practical Botany. — Edited from the German by 



W. Hillhouse.— 8vo., 1887. [.Messrs. Swan, Sonnenschein & Co. 



R. Taylor Manson. — Zig-zag Ramblings by a Naturalist. — 8vo, Darlington, 1884, 



159 pages. [The Author. 



Acad, of Nat. Sci. of Philadelphia. — Procs.,part ii, April — Sept. 1886. [The Acad. 

 Berwickshire Naturalist Club. — Proceedings for 1886, vol. xi, No. i (in two parts), 



8vo, 320 pages. [The Club. 



Sph^rularia in America. — Geo. Dimmock. — 8vo, 3-page reprint. 1886. [The Author. 

 Free Carminic Acid for colouring microscopical preparations. — Geo. Dimmock. — 



8vo, 4-page reprint, 1884. [The Author. 



Abnormal Food of Cats. — By Geo. Dimmock. — 8vo, 2-page reprint, 1884. 



[The Author. 



Belostomidae and some other Fish-destroying Bugs. — 8vo, 8-page reprint, 1886. 



[ The Author. 



The Journal of Conchology.— Jan. 1887.— No. 5, vol. v. [Mr. J. W. Taylor, Ed. 

 Mineralogical Magazine. — Vol. vii. No. 33, for Dec. 1886. [The Min. Society. 



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