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is a circumstance for which we must thank the editor in no small degree. 
Besides the Geological chapter to which we referred above, and which is 
written in an admirably popular and withal accurate style, the following 
sections make up the volume : — “ Bones,” by E. Elwin ; “ Birds’-eggs,” by 
T. Southwell, F.L.S. ; “ Butterflies and Moths,” by Dr. Knaggs ; “ Beetles,” 
by E. C. Bye, F.L.S. ; “ Hymenoptera,” by J. Bridgman ; “ Land and 
Freshwater Shells,” by Balph Tate, F.G.S. ; “ Flowering Plants and Ferns,” 
two chapters, by J. Britten, F.L.S. ; “ Grasses,” by Professor Buckman, 
F.G.S. ; “ Mosses,” by Dr. Braithwaite, F.L.S. ; “Fungi,” by Worthington 
Smith, F.L.S. ; “ Lichens,” by the Bev. James Crombie, F.L.S. ; and “ Sea- 
weeds,” by W. II. Grattan. Anyone who is at all familiar with natural 
history- workers will see at a glance that in most instances — as, for example, 
in those of “Fungi,” “ Lichens,” “ Mosses,” &c. — the names of the authors 
selected are those of the very highest living authorities in their several de- 
partments. In each chapter we find ample instructions as to the implements 
to be employed, and the mode of using them in the capture of the several 
forms. But we are also informed as to the time and place in which the 
particular “ quarry ” is to be best taken ; and, further, there is ample in- 
formation supplied as to the best and most charitable mode of killing live 
animals, and as to the manner in which they shall be mounted after death. 
And now — having said so much in praise of this little book — must come a 
word or two in disparagement. It is to the technicalities which the authors 
employ that we object. Of course in some instances it is impossible to substi- 
tute common names, but in many cases the substitution is perfectly practi- 
cable and oughtto have been adopted, and we trust will be followed in the next 
edition. The only chapter with which we can find no manner of fault in 
this respect is that which opens the work, and is by the editor. But certain 
others — we shall not name them — are as full of technicalities as it is well 
possible to be. Still the'work is the only one of the kind, and it is tout 
ensemble an excellent one. 
FEBMENT ATION. * 
T HIS book will, we doubt not, prove of interest to chemists ; but we fear 
that the practical element is wanting which would have recommended 
it to a large number of readers who are engaged in our large breweries. 
Indeed, we think that the author has been forced to spin out his matter, so 
to speak, in order to make a book upon the subject. We note, too, that he 
is clearly ignorant of the lives of the lower groups of fungi, and we think 
that for this he is to blame ; for assuredly, even though he may have been 
ignorant of the development of common Mucor at the period when he began 
his work, the study of the subject in any treatise on fungology need not have 
taken up very much of his time. It is also to be observed that his figures 
are insufficient, and the microscopic observations are taken altogether 
* “ On Fermentation.” By P. Schiitzenberger, Director at the Chemical 
Laboratory of the Sorbonne. London : Henry S. King & Co. 1876. 
