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BOOK NOTICES. 



Our friend Mr. S. Lister Petty has an interesting - series of articles 

 running- in the ' North Lonsdale Magazine,' the subject being 'The Guide- 

 Book Writers ' of the Lake District. The first article is on William 

 Green. 1760 — 1823, and appeared in the December number of the magazine ; 

 followed in the February issue by a second on Jonathan Otley. These 

 Lake Guide-books and their writers are of interest to us, inasmuch as the 

 local fauna and flora finds record to a greater or less extent with them all, 

 and Otlev was particularly scientific and accurate in his methods, and, as 

 Mr. Petty writes, his botany is thoroughly to be trusted and his localities 

 are always properly stated. 



We have received a parcel of bilingual reprints — Magyar and German — 

 dealing with ornithological topics. A reprint from ' Aquila ' for 1899 deals 

 with bird-protection, under the title 'A madarak vedelme,' by Chernel 

 Istvan-tol, and includes a number of illustrations of nesting-boxes and 

 adapted trees, and of various forms of traps. To this reprint is annexed 

 an account of the bird called ' Edelreiher ' by the Germans. Another 

 reprint from the same journal by the same writer is in discussion of a paper 

 bv Dr. Julius von Madarasz. Another reprint is of a paper by Stephan 

 Medreczky on colour-varieties of song-birds at large and in captivity (Az 

 eneklo madarak szinvaltozasa a szabad termeszetben es a fogsagban. irta 

 Medreczky Istvani. The last of these reprints we have to notice is an 

 account of an Ornithological Congress held at Sarajevo in September last 

 year ( Az Ornithologusok Gyiilese Sarajevoban 1899 evi Szeptember 25-29-en). 



From Messrs. Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd. we have received 

 1 The Illustrated Annual of Microscopy,' a quarto volume in boards of 

 148 pages, with a coloured frontispiece representing ' Pond Life ' at Leyton- 

 stone. The articles are numerous and freely illustrated. Those which 

 concern our sphere include one on 'A Hyaline Daphnia,' by D. J. Scourfield, 

 with a good coloured plate. An article by Wilfred Mark Webb on ' Some 

 Mollusca and the Microscope ' bears testimony to the excellence of the 

 work done by Mr. William Moss, of Ashton-under-Lyne. Then follows an 

 article bv Mr. Chas. D. Soar on 'British Fresh-water Mites — Arrenurus' — 

 with a plate of outlines and a list of 21 British species of that genus, for 

 a knowledge of many species of which we are deeply indebted to Mr. C. F. 

 George, of Kirton-in-Lindsey. The remainder of the papers fall outside 

 our purview, being mostly concerned with the technique of microscopy, 

 relieved bv one on the light side of the science, which includes a photograph 

 of c Ye Mikroskopiker's Arms, ' to which Daphnia pule x and Sida crystallina 

 act as heraldic supporters. m ^ 9 



We have before us, by the courtesy of the secretary, Prof. W. W. Watts, 

 the Tenth Report of the Committee of the British Association on 

 Photographs of Geological Interest, as presented to the Association 

 at Dover last year. Our Northern counties again figure largely, the 

 present report including four from Durham, three from Lancashire, fourteen 

 from Northumberland, and no less than fifty from Yorkshire. The photo- 

 graphers of these are Mr. F. C. Garrett, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mr. S. 

 W. Cuttriss, of Leeds. Mr. Godfrey Bingley, of Leeds, Mr. E. J. Garwood, 

 of London, and Mr. F. N. Eaton, of Liverpool, who have all done good 

 veoman service in this most important application of photography to useful 

 purpose. We note, however, a serious omission on the part of the 

 Secretarv, no doubt by inadvertence, in that he fails to mention the 

 indebtedness of his Committee to the Geological Photographs Committee 

 of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, which was in all essential respects the 

 pioneer in this line of research, and under whose auspices the greater 

 portion of the 413 photographs tabulated as having been furnished for 

 Yorkshire have been taken. All the same, Mr. Watts is to be heartily 

 congratulated on the great success of his Committee's labours. 



Naturalist, 



