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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



The Camera in the Field. F. C. Snell. T. Fisher Unwin. 5s. 



In this book the author's object is to give instruction to the beginner in 

 natural history photog-raphy. He also describes and figures such subjects 

 as can be secured by the ordinary worker. He does not consider the needs 

 of the privileged person who indulg-es in the practice of scaling precipices 

 and dangling over cliffs in his desire to snap-shot the breeding-places of 

 rare birds. Mr. Snell first describes the camera and the dark room, and 



Caterpillars of the Early Thorn Moth (four). 



gives very useful hints for the successful photographing of birds and their 

 nests, reptiles, mammals, insects, and plants. He also figures and describes 

 his various devices for successful work, numerous examples of which are 

 given (and sometimes repeated) in the volume. One of these we are 

 permitted to reproduce. It is a most useful work on the lines pointed out. 

 The only part of the book we do not like is the cover. 



The Cultivation of the Common Hare. A Lecture bv the Rev. 

 E. A. Woodruffe Peacock, F.L.S., F.Q.S., etc. 



In this pamphlet the author points out that there are three varieties of 

 the English Hare, the fur being thicker or thinner according- as they 

 belong to the northern, central, or southern parts of the country, so that 

 their coat may suit the varieties of climate. 



The Mountain or ' Blue' Hare, of the Scottish Highlands, is a distinct 

 species of totally different habits, and not known to interbreed with its 

 southern connections. It takes to holes among the rocks almost like 

 a Rabbit, whereas the English Hare never goes to g-round except in very 

 rare cases, where it is very hard pressed by its pursuers, when it may seek 



*' Rural Studies Series,' No. 7. J. W. Goulding, Louth, is. 

 iQoj-September i. 



