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that they have little ba'^is for grouping all these forms together, and the strongest 
indication of relationship that they can produce is the great similarity in the free 
swimming latvw. The illustrations are excellent (see figures 8, 9, 10). , 
George Beittham (English Men of Science Series). By B. Daydon Jackson. 
5 inches x 7^ inches, 292 pages, frontispiece. J. M. Dent and Co. 
Price 2s. 6d. net. 
Sir William Flower (English Men of Science Series). By K. Lydekker. 5 
inches x 7J inches, 190 pages, frontispiece. J. M. Dent and Co. Price 
2s. 6d. net. 
The Life of Pasteur. By Rene Vallery-Radot. Translated from the French by 
Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. 6 inches x 9J inches, 484 pages. Archibald 
Constable and Co. Popular Edition. Price 7s. 6d. net. 
Figure 10. — Photograph of Egrets. 
(From “ A Text-Book in General Zoology,” by the courtesy of Messrs. Ginn and Co.) 
In these books we have the life stories of three scientific men of the first 
rank. A zoologist and anthropologist in Sir William Flower, to whose efforts 
we owe the modern museum ; a botanist in George Bentham, whose name is 
familiar to every student of the British flora, and in Louis Pasteur, a pioneer 
of the newest science — bacteriology — whose work for the direct benefit of 
humanity in connection with the prevention of hydrophobia will be remem- 
bered long after that dread disease becomes unknown. We hope that our 
readers will gain as much pleasure from these books as we have done. 
Botany Rambles. By Ella Thompson. 7^ inches x 5 inches. Horace Marshall 
and Son. Three Parts. Price : Spring, 7d. ; Summer and Autumn, is. each. 
We are pleased to see that these useful little books have now run into a 
second edition. 
Historic Links. Topographical Aids to the Reading of History. By D. I.. 
Maguire, LL.A. 5 inches x inches, 308 pages, 16 illustrations. Swan, 
Sonnenschein and Co. 
The sub-title of this book will give an idea of its intention, and to show that 
it will appeal strongly to our readers it is only necessary to say that Roman 
