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BOOK NOTICES. 



excellent list for their district, which — so far as we are concerneid 

 — includes much of Southern Derbyshire ; and on the other hand 

 to the almost total neglect of Nottinghamshire and Northumber- 

 land. We trust future years may see a revival of entomological 

 ■activity in these counties, and more especially — if we may be 

 permitted to say so — in the case of Nottinghamshire, for which we 

 beheve that a county catalogue of Lepidoptera is still a great 

 desideratum. 



BOOK NOTICES. 

 The Cat : its Natural History ; Domestic Varieties ; 



Management and Treatment (with Illustrations). By Philip M. 



Rule. With an essay on Feline Instinct, by Bernard Perez. 



London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887. 176 pages 



in small 8vo., with plates. 

 The title sufficiently explains the general scope of this little book, 

 which — as the dedication to Mr. John Colam makes manifest — is 

 devoted to the humanitarian and popular, and not to the scientific 

 aspect of the subject. >oo< 



Lectures delivered before the Sunday Lecture Society, 



Newcastle-on-Tyne. London : Walter Scott, 1887. Small 8vo. 

 This Httle volume includes seven lectures by some of our ablest 

 men. They are as follows : The Natural History of Instinct, by 



G. J. Romanes, F.R.S. ; Animal Life on the Ocean Surface, by Prof. 



H. N. Moseley, M.A., F.R.S. ; The Eye and its Work, by Litton 

 Forbes, M.D.; The Movements of Plants, by Ernest A. Parkyn,M.A.; 

 The Relations between Natural Science and Literature, by Prof. H. 

 Nettleship, M.A. ; Facts and Fictions in Zoology, by Dr. Andrew 

 Wilson, F.R.S.E. ; and The Animals that make Limestone, by Dr. P. 

 Herbert Carpenter, F.R.S. — each lecture being separately paged. 



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The Young Collector's Handbook of Ants, Bees, Dragon- 

 flies, Earwigs, Crickets, and Flies (Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, 

 Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera). By W. Harcourt Bath. 

 London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1888. Small 8vo., 108 

 pages, with numerous woodcuts. 

 The woodcuts in this little book are well calculated to give a 

 preliminary idea of the leading types of the insects belonging to the 

 groups specified, and — may we venture to hope — to excite an interest 

 in them and a desire to know more about them than Mr. Bath's little 

 volume (from its limited capacity as compared with the vast numerical 

 extent of the orders on which it treats) can supply. Should even one 

 -earnest student of the future date his first impulse from this work, it 

 will not have been published in vain. Naturalist, 



