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celts found. This axe was given to me by Miss Norman. 

 It is much oxidised, and apparently devoid of ornamentation. 

 The cutting edge is also slightly damaged. The axe is 2 J inches 

 long, inches wide at the socket, and if inches at the cutting 

 edge, and weighs 4 ozs. 



The specimens referred to the previous notes are now in 

 the Municipal Museum at Hull. 



Part IX. of The Birds of the British Isles, by Charles Stonham 



(Grant Richards, 7/6), has been pubUshed, and deals with Harriers, Buz- 

 zards, Eagles, Falcons, etc. There are sixteen plates from drawings by 

 Lihan M. Medland. 



Qowans' Nature Books, Nos. 17 and 19 (Gowans & Gray, Glasgow, 

 6d. net each), have been received, and are well up to the standard of these 

 well-known series of pictures of wild life. 



The former contains sixty excellent photographs of British Mammals, 

 by IMessrs. Oxley Grabham, T. A. Metcalfe, S. H. Smith, and C. Kirk. 

 INIr. Grabham supplies the descriptive letterpress. The latter is the third 

 series of ' Wild Birds at Home,' the photographs being by Mr. C. Kirk, and 

 the notes by G. Girdvv-ood, 



Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley, selected 

 by Henrietta A. Huxley. MacMillan & Co. 200 pp. 



In this handy little volume Mrs. Huxley has gathered together three 

 hundred and eighty-five pithy extracts from the well-known works of her 

 late husband. Huxley's power of graphic description was marvellous, 

 and in the present book we have a fine collection of gems from his 

 writings. Useful indexes are given, and the book is as pleasant a travelling 

 companion as could be wished for. 



A Census Catalogue of British Mosses, edited by Wm. Ingham. 



York : Coultas & Yolans, 1907, 1/6. 63 pp. 



About two years ago the British Moss Exchange Club invited the 

 assistance of bryologists in the preparation of a Moss Census. The response 

 was a hearty one, a strong Committee was formed to carry out the work, 

 and 'the result is the publication of this useful catalogue. Prof. Barker 

 acted as editor, and brought the work to an advanced state when on his 

 illness and death it was continued and completed by Mr. Ingham. The 

 arrangement adopted is that of Dixon's Handbook, 2nd edition, and while 

 this will not satisfy some, it will on the whole prove most useful. A supple- 

 ment at the end, hov/ever, gives Warnstorf's arrangement of the Sphagna, 

 with an attempt to reconcile it with that of Dixon's Handbook. In the 

 explanatory notes, Mr. Dixon points out the incompleteness of the records, 

 and we agree with him that such a catalogue is the best means of enabling^ 

 bryologists to fill up the gaps with least loss of time, and pave the way for 

 a more thorough census in the future. The catalogue contains a list of 

 Watsonian counties and vice-counties, and Lloyd-Praeger's forty divisions 

 of Ireland, also particulars of the divisions of the larger counties. Opposite 

 each species are given the numbers of those counties for which it is recorded. 

 Eight pages are occupied with lists of sources of records both published 

 and manuscript, also the Herbaria consulted. These will enable workers 

 to decide at once what sources of information have not been utilised. 

 The catalogue is clearly and well printed, and except for an error in date 

 (1892 for 1902 on page 12) and an occasional want of uniformity in the use 

 of the hyphen, the work shows great care in its preparation, and reflects 

 much credit on all concerned in its publication. 



Naturalist, 



