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NOTE— ORNITHOLOGY. 



Puffinus yelkouanus at Scarborough. — An immature female speci- 

 men of the Levantine Shearwater (Puffinus yelkouanus) was shot at 

 Scarborough on 13th September. It was brought, along- with other birds 

 which had been shot out of a boat in the bay, to Mr. W. J. Clarke, who, 

 recognising - that it differed from our Manx Shearwater, v forwarded it to 

 Mr. Howard Saunders, who confirmed Mr. Clarke's identification. 



The bird, which has come into my possession, is, I think, the fifth 

 recorded for Britain, and the second for Yorkshire— the one previously 

 obtained in the county being, I believe, now in the South Kensington 

 Museum. — R. Fortune, 16, Mount Parade, Harrogate, 13th October 1900. 



BOOK NOTICES. 

 ' Tommy Smith's Animals,' by Edmund Selous (small 8vo. cloth, 

 207 pages, 2s. 6d., Methuen & Co., 1899), is a child's book in which various 

 animals are represented as giving Tommy Smith practical lessons in common 

 humanity. : 



From the firm of Georges Carre et C. Naud, Editeurs,^ Paris, we have 

 received a small book by M. Paul Busquet, on ' Les Etres Vivants 

 Organisation — Evolution,' published in 1899, as an instalment of the 

 Bibliotheque de la Revue Generale des Sciences. This little work deals 

 with biological problems in opposition to the usually received hypotheses of 

 biologists and evolutionists, and is freely illustrated in the text. 



Agricultural Botany | Theoretical and Practical | by | John 

 Percival, M. A. (Cantab, j, F.L.S. | Professor of Botany at the South Eastern 

 Agricultural College, Wye. | London. Duckworth & Co. 1900. 8vo. 

 Price 7s. 6d. nett. 



If one has a fault to find with 'Agricultural Botany,' it is perhaps on 

 account of its south country origin. Are its opinions those of, say, the 

 institution at Aspatria in Cumberland? Otherwise it is a capital book, 

 some of the sections, e.g., 'Physiology of Plants' and 'Weeds,' appealing 

 to others than the farmer, and to bim no doubt the section on ' Farm 

 Seeds ' will be useful if he will take the trouble to be guided by it. Good, 

 too, is Chapter 23, on 'Sports and Variation.' In the ' W~eed ' section we 

 read of Cuscuta, Orobanche minor, and Mistletoe as weeds to be destroyed. 

 No doubt, but this is one of the cases which do not apply to the North of 

 Engiand and very partially, at least, in the Midlands. The advice about 

 the Charlock pest is the same as in the Board of Agriculture Leaflet 63. 

 Prof. Percival says its prevalence is due to over-cropping. In Lancashire 

 and Yorkshire it is usually supposed to be neglect, or growing two ' white' 

 crops on the same ground in succession, i.e., bad farming-. There is a 

 section on the Solanacese, but no mention is made of the equally poisonous 

 Yew. The illustrations are, on the whole, enough. If this book is any 

 guide to the instruction given at the South Eastern College, the students 

 certainly have plenty to do. We notice that a knowledge of microscopical 

 manipulation is taken for granted, but not all readers of the book will 

 possess an instrument, or know how to stain. — S. L. P. 







A Glossary | of | Botanic Terms | with their derivation and 

 accent | by j Benjamin Day don Jackson, j London. Duckworth & Co. 

 1900. 6s. nett. 



Mr. Jackson's 'Glossary' is a book to be treated with respect by 

 a reviewer whose knowledge is not sufficient to enable him to think of 

 a word which he cannot find in the ' Glossary.' Even H. C. Watson's 

 'Incognit' finds a place, and under 'Ringworm' we are told it is due 

 to Trichophyton tonsurans Malmsten. It is one of those books which are 

 not books from the collector's standpoint, but till it is on the botanist's shelf 

 his collection has a vacant place which none other can fill. — S. L. P. 



' Naturalist, 



3 NOV. 1900 



