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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Coleoptera of the British Islands.— By Rev. W. W. Fowler. M.A., F.L..S.— 



Vol. i, Adephaga-Hydrophilidae, 1887. [Lovell Reeve & Co., publishers. 

 Revue Bryologique. — 14^ Annee, 1887, ^'o- 2. [Mons. T. Husnot, Redacteur. 

 The Midland Naturalist, No. iii, for March 1887. [The Editors, Birmingham. 

 The Young Naturalist, Part Ixxxvii, for March 1887. [Mr. J. E. Robson. Editor. 

 Science Gossip. No. 267, for March 1887. [Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Publishers. 

 Natural Hi.story Journal, March 1887. [Mr. J. Edmund Clark. Editor. 



The Naturalists' World, vol. 4, No. 39, for March 1887. [Mr. Percy Lund, Editor. 

 Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on- 



Tyne.— Vol. viii, part 2, 1886. [The Tyneside Field Club. 



Scientific News for General Readers. — Vol. i. No. i, March 1887. [The Publishers. 

 R. Spruce on Lejeunia holtii, a new hepatic from Killarney. — 8vo reprint, 18 pp. 



and plate. [The Author. 



Entomological Society. — Proceedings for 1885 and 1886. [Mr. G. T. Porritt. 

 Manchester Geological Society. — Transactions, vol. xviii, parts I to 20 ; and vol. 



xix, parts I to 4, 8vo, 1884-1887. [The Society. 



Hertfordshire Natural History Society. — Transactions, vol. iv, part 4 (January 



1887). [The Society. 



Essex Field Club. — Transactions, vol. iv, part 2, December 1886. [The Club. 

 The Essex Naturalist. — January, February, March 1887. [Essex Field Club, 



The Wesley Naturalist, No. I, ^larch 1887. [Wesley Scientific Society. 



Grevillea.— No. 75, March 1887. [Dr. M. C. Cooke, Editor. 



Leeds Geological Association.— Transactions, part 2, for 1885-86. [The Association. 

 S. A. Adamson on Recent Discoveries of Carboniferous Vegetation in Yorkshire. 



— 8vo. reprint, 1887, 8 PP- [The Author. 



Psyche, a Journal of Entomology. — \o\. iv, Nos. 135-137, July-September 1885. 



[Cambridge Entom. Club, U. S. 

 Book Chat, vol. ii, Nos. 1 and 2, January and February 1887. [The Publishers. 

 The Economic Naturalist, vol. i. No. 3. [Mr. S. L. Mosley, Editor. 



Notarisia, Commentarium Phycologicum. — Anno ii, No. 5, Gennaio 1887. 



[G. B. de Toni e David Levi, Redattori. 

 The Zoologist. — Nos. 121 to 123, Jan., Feb., March 1887. [Mr. J. E. Harting, Editor. 



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