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as giving in small compass the leading views of Sachs' Text- 

 book. 



We are informed that Professor M'Nab had, during the last 

 seven years of his life, been actively occupied with the work of 

 preparing a large text-book of Botany. To this work he was able 

 to bring a very wide knowledge of botanical literature, as well as 

 much practical acquaintance with the methods of research. 



He died very suddenly on 3rd December, 1889, aged 45. He 

 leaves a widow and five children, for whom, by causes beyond his 

 control, no adequate provision could be made by him. A com- 

 mittee has been formed with the view of raising a fund for the 

 purpose of at once testifying to the regard in which his scientific 

 attainments were held by his colleagues and other friends, and of 

 assisting his family to maintain themselves by their own exertions. 

 Sympathisers with this object are requested to forward their con- 

 tributions to Greenwood Pim, M.A., F.L.S., Hon. Sec. of the fund, 

 at Easton Lodge, Monkstown, Dublin. 



EEVIEWS. 



A VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES. By J. A. 



Harvie Brown, and T. E. Buckley. (Edinburgh, 1888.) 

 In April 1888 we took occasion to review, in this Journal, the Vertebrate 

 Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness, and West Ross, by the same authors, to 

 which this is a companion volume ; and though, unavoidably, somewhat late, 

 we cannot let the issue of the second work of what we hope may prove to be 

 a series pass without some expression of our pleasure at so valuable an 

 addition to the zoological literature of Scotland. 



No one could have been found better qualified than the authors to produce 

 such a work, since their acquaintance with the islands is probably equalled by 

 few naturalists, if by any ; and they have brought to the task the results of years 

 of unflagging interest in all that could further its successful accomplishment. 

 Like the earlier volume, this book is all that could be desired in the typo- 

 graphy, and in the illustrations of the grand and wild cliff scenery of the 

 islands, as also in the maps. The frontispiece by Mr. Millais requires to be 

 minutely studied before the beauty and faithfulness of its representations of 

 wild animal life can be duly appreciated. 



To some, at least, the woodcuts (taken from the only known likenesses) of 

 Professor William Macgillivray, (the well-known writer on British Orni- 

 thology, and of numerous less known, but scarcely less meritorious, works in 

 several other departments of Natural Science), and of his eldest son, John, 

 who died in the discharge of scientific duties, will enhance the value of the 



