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The Scottish Naturalist. 



(^^«;/)-The Great Skua in Foula, by R. M. Barrington, 

 LL.B., F.L.S. 



(September) — A List of Birds observed in Shetland, June, 

 1890, by R. M. Barrington, LL.B., F.L.S. The Great Skua 

 in Foula, and Honey Buzzard in Shetland, both by 

 Harold Raeburn. The Bearded Horse Mussel [Afytilus 

 barbatus) near Aberdeen, The Angular Grab [Gonoplax 

 angulaia) at Cullen, Banffshire, and The Circular Crab 

 (Atelecyclus heterodori) on the Aberdeen Coast, all three by 

 J. Taylor, (Paisley). 



KEVIEWS. 

 THE LONDON CATALOGUE OF BEITISH PLANTS. 



"Eighth Edition, with Corrections." 

 Edited by Frederick J. Hanbury, F.L.S. 

 We have been favoured with a copy of this very useful Catalogue in its most 

 recent form, lately issued. The following quotation from the preface will show 

 the nature of the changes made in it. 



" The original issue of the Eighth Edition of the London Catalogue having 

 become exhausted and a reprint rendered necessary, some obvious misprints 

 have been corrected and omissions supplied." 



" No attempt, however, has been made to bring the Catalogue up to date. 

 To have done this would have constituted the present issue a new edition, for 

 which the materials are as yet in a far too imperfect condition. Several 

 critical genera are undergoing thorough revision, and difficult questions of 

 nomenclature still remain unsettled." 



We cannot question the wisdom of the course adopted in the present condi- 

 tion of nomenclature of the species and varieties of the British Flora ; but we 

 trust that before long time has elapsed a new edition will actually be in print, 

 embodying fully the generally accepted results of the labours so ungrudgingly 

 undertaken of late years by not a few British botanists, among whom the 

 editor of the London Catalogue occupies an honourable place. 



LAEVA COLLECTING AND BKEEDING-.— By the Rev. J. Seymour 

 St. John, B.A. (London, 1890.) 



This little book will be of assistance to British lepidopterists, and scarce less 

 so to such botanists as desire to know something with regard to the butterflies 

 and moths that feed on British plants, both wild and cultivated. It aims 

 simply at being a complete compilation from all reliable sources of information 

 available to the author ; and consists of two parts : — I, A list of larvae ar- 

 ranged and named after " The Entomologist's Synonymic List of British Lepi- 

 doptera," the food plants being enumerated under each larva, and 2, A list 

 of food plants arranged and named after the London Catalogue, with a list 

 under each of the larvae that feed on it. A somewhat close scrutiny shows 

 that the lists have been well and carefully compiled, and that they are to be 

 relied on as well up to date. 



