The NATURALIST. 



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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Notarisia, Comrnentarium Phycologicum, Anno II, No. 8, Ottobre 1887. 



[G. B. de Toni e Davi'd Levi, Redatlori. 



A Vertebrate Fauna of Caithness, Sutherland, and West Cromarty, by J. A. 

 Harvie-Erown and T. E. Buckley. 8vo. , cloth, gilt top, 344 pages, maps, 

 panoramic views, woodcuts, and other illustrations. Edinburgh, 1 887. [Authors. 



The Young Collector's Handbook of Anis, Bees, Dragon-flies, Earwigs, Crickets, 

 and Flies (Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Dipiera), by 

 W. Harcourt Bath. Small Svo., cloth, numerous woodcuts, 108 pages. 

 London, 1887. [Swan Sonnenschein Co., Publishers. 



Journal of Conchology, vol. v. No. 8. Oct. 1887. [J. W. Taylor, Editor, 



Nat. Hist. Journal, vol. xi. No. 98, for Nov. 1887. [Editors, York. 



The Essex Naturalist, No. 10, for October 1887. [The Essex Field Club. 



Naturalists' World, vol. iv. No. 47, November 1S87. [Percy Lund, Editor. 



Journal of New ^'o^k Micro. S'jc, vol. iii. No. 4, October 1887. [The Society. 



The Young Naturalist, Part xcv, for Nov. 1887. [Mr. J. E. Robson. Editor, 



The Midland Naturalist, vol. x. No. 119, for Nov. 1887. [The Editors, Birmingham. 



Science Gossip. No. 275, for Nov. 1887. [Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Publishers. 



Wesley Naturalist, No. 9. November 1887. [The Wesley Scientific Society. 



Liverpool Geological Association. — Annual Report, 1887, 8vo., 16 pages. [Society. 



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