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vation, no matter how unimportant or minute it may appear. He gave 

 instances where valuable observations, made by ardent Held naturalists of 

 the working-man type, were lost to science, through not being recorded. He 

 thought by careful attention to every little detail in recording matter or 

 observation, much might be added and saved for reference in the future. 

 Preceding Dr. Garstang, Mr, J. W. Taylor addressed the members 

 of the Leeds Conchological Club on the physiology, morphology and dis- 

 tribution of Hygvomia fusca and H. granulata. Further suggestons and 

 remarks from Mr. Arnold T. Watson, F.L.S., of Sheffield, Rev. F. H. Woods, 

 B.D., Driffield, Mr. S. Lister Petty, Ulverstone, Mr. T, Sheppard, F.G.S., 

 Hull, and Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., Leeds, with a vote of thanks 

 to the two lecturers, brought a very profitable and enjoyable meeting to 

 an end. — F. B. 



REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union Transactions, 1907.* 



It is said that all things come to those who wait. The members of the 

 Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union have waited patiently for the Transactions, 

 1907, and have, at last, received them. One feels afraid to write 

 what one thinks about the present part. As in the previous issues, 

 a very mportant feature is the excellent lists of County Flora and Fauna, 

 Miss S C. Stow contributes a list of ' Lincolnshire Galled-plants ' ; Mr. 

 G, W, INlason a list of Lincolnshire Moths (Spinges and Bombyces) under 

 the title ' The Lepidoptera of Lincolnshire, Part i,' It is somewhat diffi- 

 cult to understand this title when we remember that in the Transactions 

 for 1906, Mr, Mason contributed a list of ' Lincolnshire Butterflies,' Have 

 butterflies ceased to be considered Lepidoptera in Lincolnshire, or is it 

 intended to publish a new list as a subsequent part ? Some of the records 

 in Mr. Mason's list are of great interest, particularly the Oleander Hawk 

 Moth, taken at South Somercoates, and the Reed Tussock Moth, taken by 

 Mr. F, Arnold Lees, near Market Rasen in 1878. The Rev. Thornley and 

 Dr. W. Wallace contribute a remarkably good list of ' Lincolnshire Coleop- 

 tera ' (Geodephaga), and there are other papers (including the President's 

 address on ' The Pygmy Flint Age in Lines.') and notes. 



It is a very great pity that such valuable contributions as some of them 

 are, should not have been published with much greater care. To be as 

 mild as possible I do not hesitate to say that this issue of the Transactions 

 is not creditable to anyone ; errors and misprints are by no means 

 uncommon, in fact, the latter are very abundant ; no rule seems to have 

 been recognised in the use of italics, and capital letters are used where 

 small letters should be, and small letters where capitals should be. In one 

 paragraph oi i-^h lines on page 208, some eighteen corrections are required ; 

 page 207 is not much better, I certainly did not know before that a 

 Rhynchonella was a Lamellibranch, which is the only inference to be drawn 

 from the sentence — ' Rhynchonella and other Lamellibranchs are 

 abundant.' On page 209 is a plant name certainly new to me, and, I 

 believe, new to science, to wit — Alchemillavl ugaris ' ; several other 

 misprints appear on this page. On page 212 ' Cockier aria ' stands for 

 Cochlearia, and ' Lyeopus ' for Lycopus, and on the next page Lychnis 

 flos-cucvili set out as ' Lychnis Floscuciili ' ; but what is most conspicuous 

 on this page is the use of more than one and the same fount of type for the 

 grand array of initials. By the way, is not the adopted system of recording 

 very superficial ? I believe that frequently the recorder sits in the brake 

 with surface-soil map on the knee, and notes down the various plants grow- 

 ing on the roadside, the conveyance often travelling seven miles an hour. 



The pointing in many cases is very unsatisfactory, and makes some of 

 the passages look sheer nonsense. Three examples may be given (two 

 over pointed, and the other without points) : — 



* Louth, pp. 219-271, 



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