The NATURALIST. 



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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Manx Book, No. 12, for October 1887. [Mr. A. W. Moore, Editor. 



The Zoologist, No. 132, for December 18S7. [Mr. J. E. Harting, Editor. 



The Garner, No. 27, for December 18S7. [Mr. A. Ramsay, Editor. 



Revue Br)-ologique, 14^' Annee, 1887, No. 6. [Mons. T. Husnot, Redacteur. 



Flower-Land : an Introduction to Botany for Children, and for the use of Parents 



an.d Teachers. By Robert Fisher. M.A. (Vicar of Sewerby, Hull). Small 8vo. 



62 pagCb. [John Hey wood, publisher, Manchester. 



Hertfordshire Nat. Hist. Society. — Trans., Vol. iv., Part 7, Nov. 1^87. [Society. 

 Grevillea, No. 78, for December 18S7. [Dr. M. C. Cooke, Editor. 



Manchester Geological Society. — Trans. , Parts xi & xii of Vol. xix. [Society. 

 [. G. Goodchild on Ice Work in Edenside and some of the adjoining parts of 



NorthAVestern England. 8vo. Reprint, 57 pages. 1887. [Author. 

 J. H. Gurney on the Misdeeds of the Common House-Sparrow. 1887. 8vo., 9 pp. 



[Author. 



Nat. Hist. Journal, vol. xi. No. 99, for December 1887. [Editors, Vork. 



The Essex Naturalist, No. 11, for November 1887. [The Essex Field Club, 



Naturalists' World, vol. iv, No. 48, December 1887. [Percy Lund, Editor. 



Journal of New Vork Micro. Soc, vol. iii, No. 4, October 1887. [The Society. 

 The Voung Naturalist, Part xcvi, for Dec. 1887. [Mr. J. E. Robson, Editor. 

 The Midland Naturalist, vol. x. No. 120, for Dec. 18S7. [The Editors, Birmingham. 

 Science Gossip. No. 275. for Nov. 1887. []\Iessrs. Chatto & Windus, Publishers. 

 Wesley Naturalist, No. 10, December 1S87. [The Wesley Scientific Society. 



EXCHANGE. 



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