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Reviews and Book Notices. 



record, and must have occupied a great deal of time in com- 

 pilation. The mode of reference, however, is cumbrous. Thus 

 ' Baker, J. B.' signifies Mr. J. G. Baker's paper in the 'Journal 

 of Botany,' and twenty pages have to be searched — sometimes 

 without result, as we have found. ' The Naturalist ' is perhaps 

 the greatest sufferer by this stilted and cumbersome method of 

 reference ; and only enthusiastic students will benefit greatly by 

 the author's extensive bibliographical notes. 



In the future the botanists of Derbyshire may profitably 

 relax their vigilance with regard to new and rare species, and 

 we hope they will find time to study the vegetation of the area 

 on the lines of H. C. Watson, J. G. Baker, F. A. Lees, W. B. 

 Crump, and others, so that in time it w^ill be possible to frame a 

 more 'complete account of the botany of the county.' 



S. & M. 



SCIENCE IN HULL IN 1903. 



The Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club are once 

 more to be felicitated and complimented on their scientific work 

 and the promptitude and completeness with which it is brouglit 

 before the public eye, and the volume now before us includes 

 numerous papers and notes of much value. 



The longest paper is one which can hardly be regarded as 

 scientific at all. It is one by Mr. Thos. Blashill, F.R.I.B.A., 

 modestly entitled ' Evidences relating to East Hull,' a mass of 

 detailed information on the historical topography of that part 

 of the town. 



The most important paper in the volume is, in our opinion, 

 the scholarly contribution in which Mr. T. Fetch, under the 

 title of 'The Marine Fauna of the Humber District and the 

 Holderness Coast,' sums up what is known of marine zoology 

 in the district and enumerates the species which have been 

 found to occur. It were much to be wished in this connection 

 that naturalists in Yorkshire would take up with vigour and 

 enthusiasm the study of the living organisms of their coast- 

 Hne, and render the work of the Marine Biology Committee of 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union more of a reality than ever it 

 lias been, and that Mr. Fetch's paper may prove an eff"ectual 

 sliniuhis thereto is a consummation devoutly to be hoped for. 



*Tian,s<'ictions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club for the 

 year 1903, \'ol. III., No. 1 , 1 20 pp., with 11 plates and numerous illustrations 

 in the text. Trice ;,s. od. net. Hull, A. Brown & Sons. _ 



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