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species in Eng^land, and under Agriolimax IcEvis is a photograph 

 of a favourite locality for the species, which we are able to 

 reproduce. Other illustrations are g-iven, including several 

 anatomical drawings. There are also maps showing the dis- 

 tribution of the different species, and a beautiful coloured plate, 

 illustrating the varieties of Li?nax ciiiereo-niger, a species dealt 

 with in the previous instalment of this work. It is now over 

 three years since the first volume was finished, and since that 

 time only three parts, containing about 150 pages in all, have 

 been published. We should like to see a little more progress 

 made, though it must be admitted each part represents an 

 enormous amount of labour. 



The fifteenth report of the [Missouri Botanical Garden, 1904, contains a 

 well-illustrated paper on ' An Ecolog-ical Comparison of some Typical 

 Swamp Areas," by S. M. Coulter. 



'A Descriptive Handbook to the Bed of Economic Plants in Lister Park, 

 Bradford,' compiled by the Advisory Connnittee, has been issued. About 

 seventy plants are described in detail, the particulars being- of a useful 

 character and likely to be of service to the interested visitor. ' The plants 

 are grown, not because they possess special beauty, but that visitors to the 

 Garden may have the opportunity of stud}-ing- in their living- state, plants- 

 with the names and products of which thev iire familiar, from their use in 

 medicine, food, or commerce.' 



Messrs. Cassell & Co. have issued a ' Popular Edition " of ' The Field 

 Naturalist's Handbook,' by the late Rev. J. G. Wood and Rev. T. Wood, at 

 the low price of one shilling-. This is arrang-ed according to months, and 

 contains particulars of the dates of appearance of butterflies, moths, and 

 wild plants, with a few notes on birds' eggs. The 'Ins^-cts' and 'Plants' 

 are arranged in order, with ' Popular names,' ' scientific names,' ' localities,' 

 etc. The nomenclature is not always of the most recent, suggesting as one 

 ^^riter has already done, that ^ A scientific name' should be the heading- of 

 one column. 'The Field Naturalist's Handbook' contains over 160 pages, 

 and is a wonderful shillingsworth. It will be very useful to teachers 

 interested in Nature Study. 



' Sir William Henry Flower, K.C.B., etc., a Personal ^Memoir," by C. J. 

 Cornish, has iusi bec-n published bv Messrs. Macmillan & Co. In this well- 

 wrilten and inicrosting book much is said of tlie personal side of the lite of 

 the late Sir W. H. Flower — his early education, his military career, his 

 svtcial lite. Whilst this is not without value, the average reader will look to 

 ih.e MenuMi- lor sonu' accounl of Flower — as museum director, naturalist, 

 and author. In tliis lie will not be altogether Llisappointed. though this side 

 (^f I'Mower's lite appears to take a secor;dar^■ place in the \'olume. Flower's 

 \oungcsi son, Mr. \'. .\. Flower, has written the first two chapters to the 

 work, and Latlv Flower contributes the concbuding- chapter. ' His Last 

 Years,' which is beautifully written. There are three appendices, that con- 

 sisting" of a 'List of Published Writings' being of especial value, and 

 constitutes a better record of Flower's ci^nt i-ibution to science than does the 

 ?\Iemoir. There is an index which consists pi-incipally of personal names. 



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