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was done by Bell and Cooke, in their excellent little works. This could 

 have easily been done without losing- any of the interesting- facts and 

 details which make each of these volumes a pleasant one to read. 



The true British Lizards are but three in number, but two others occur 

 in the Channel Islands, which are included in the scheme of vice-counties 

 used by British workers, and so the volinne includes descriptions of all five. 



The g-eneral topics treated of in the Lizard volume are the specific 

 characters given by Mr. Boulenger with some important diag-nostic figures 

 — the fragility of the tail theoretically discussed — the colour-variation of 

 Lizards, and their limbs. 



One interesting^ local item is the presence of the true Sand Lizard on 

 the Southport and probably also the Cheshire sandhills, a remarkable 

 feature in its distribution. R. 







The thirteentli 'Annual Report of the Society for the Protection of 

 Birds ' has been received, and contains a year's record of good work. 

 As an appendix is the address delivered by the Rev. Canon Rawnsley at 

 the Bird and Arbor Day Festival, held at Warcop, Westmorland, in 

 December. 



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The Proceeding's of the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club for 1903 have 

 just been published. They are principally occupied by an interesting- 

 ' Botanical Resume (including a description of the Field Meetings of 1903) ' 

 by Miss E. M. Wood. A photograph of the late J. J. Fitzpatrick forms the 

 frontispiece. 







We have received the ' Report of the Select Committee on Ventilation, 

 appointed by the House of Commons (Blue Book. 1903).' is. (London : 

 Hickson, Ward & Co.) In this the ' Plenum ' system is condemned, and the 

 natural or ' automatic ' (Boyle's) system recommended. Sir Michael Foster, 

 F. R.S., a past president of the Yorkshii-e Naturalists' Union, is the Chair- 

 man of the Committee. 



'One and All Gardening- for 1904' (92, Long- Acre, London, W.C.) will 

 certainly do much to further popularise the healthy occupation of g-ardening-. 

 It contains 200 pages, is well illustrated, and is sold iov twopence ! Amongst 

 the many articles the following^ may be mentioned : — ' Board School 

 Children's Flowers,' 'Floral Evolution,' 'Some Plants of Shakespeare,' 

 'A Common "Murder" Plant,' etc. The volume reflects the greatest 

 credit upon the Editor, Mr. E. Owen Greening. 



A four-paged circular, entitled ' The Thirty-third Annual Report of the 

 Sheffield Naturalists' Club for 1903' is to hand. It contains a list of officers 

 and members, a balance sheet, and the report of the Council, in which the 

 work of the various sections of the Club during- the year is reviewed. 

 There is a substantial balance in hand, part of which we should like to see 

 spent, say, in publishing- the list of the ' Carboniferous limestone fossil 

 fauna occurring^ at Castleton,' or the results of the other work the Club is 

 doing. 







The ' Twenty-seventh Annual Report and Proceedings of the Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Entomolog-ical Society, 1903,' have just reached us. Besides 

 lists of officers, etc., the Proceedings contain the texts of one or two 

 papers read at the society's meeting-s. One of these, presumably by Mr. 

 W. Webster, entitled ' Some Notes on Entomolog-ical Antiquities and Folk- 

 Lore of Insects and other Creeping- Things,' is of a most valuable character 

 and more than worth the price of the volume (one shilling-). An entertaining- 

 address by the same writer, 'The Entomologist before the Law,' is also 

 printed. A reprint of a paper by Mr. F. N. Pierce from ' The Entomolog^ist ' 

 is bound up with this publication. 



1904 April I, 



