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Natural History Journal, December 1886. [Mr. J. Edmund Clark, Editor. 



The Young Naturalist for December 1886. [Mr. J. E. Robson, Editor. 



Science Gossip for December 1886. [The Publishers. 



The Midland Naturalist for December 1886. [The Editors. 



British Stalk-eyed Crustacea and Spiders — By F. A. A. Skuse (Young Collector 

 Series), 8vo, 1887, 128 pages. [Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 



On the Origin of Agriculture — By H. Ling Roth, 8vo reprint, 36 pages. [Author. 

 Grevillea, a quarterly record of Cryptogamic Botany, No. 74, December 1886. 



[Dr. M. C. Cooke, Editor. 



Belfast Nat. Field Club — Annual Reports and Proceedings, 1873-4, 1874-5, 1875-6, 

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Cumberland and AVestmoreland Association — Transactions, No. xi, 1885-86. 



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Further additions to the Rev. T. A. Marshall's Catalogue of British Ichneumonidae 

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The Distribution of the Lepidoptera in the British Isles.— 



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Dragon Flies. — Wanted to correspond with Entomologists collecting these 

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