The United Kingdom 57 
Ireland.—'' South Dublin District," by Dr G. H. 
Pethybridge and Mr R. LI. Praeger, Proceedings of 
the Royal Irish Academy^ IQOS- 
The work now in progress includes 
the following surveys: the Peak Dis- 
trict, by C. E. Moss; Cambridgeshire, 
by C. E. Moss; Hampshire and North- 
west Yorkshire, by W. M. Rankin ; 
North-east Yorkshire, by W. G. Smith ; 
West Kent, by A. G. Tansley; the 
Chiltern Hills, by A. G. Tansley ; 
North Dublin District, by G. H. 
Pethybridge and R. Lloyd Praeger ; 
and Glendalough District, Co. Wick- 
low, by R. LI. Praeger. 
I cannot but remark that these 
carefully executed and fully coloured 
vegetation maps of various parts of 
the British Isles, showing the distribu- 
tion of different types of vegetation 
over the country, and accompanied by 
descriptive memoirs, represent a stan- 
dard of voluntary work which has not 
