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Fkiuay Street, Warnham, Sussex. 
Rural Studits Series. No. g. Pasture and Meadow Analysis. By the Rev. E. 
Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock. 5^ inches x 8;^ inches. 19 pages. Louth; 
J. W. Goulding and Son. Price is., post free. 
This is a lecture, at once scientifically thorough and practically clear, on the 
application of rock-soil analysis to the flora of grasslands. It is, therefore, a 
description of the use of that ecological method of study to which the little book 
by Professor Ilenslow reviewed above is an introduction. 
British Trees {natural figures), and British Tr-ees (natural figures of boles). 
P'rom Photographs taken by P'rancis George Heath. Two Sets of Six Post- 
cards. 3-2 inches x 5.2 inches. Country Press. Price 6d. each set. 
These are excellent reproductions of photographs of isolated specimens of the 
Linden, Elm, Oriental and “ London ” Planes, and “ Black ” and Grey Poplars. 
Most of them appear to have been taken at Kew, so neither Linden nor Elm is 
allowed to exhibit its characteristic “fringe” of shoots round the base of the 
bole. We doubt the wisdom of styling the “ London ” Plane (Plalanus aceri- 
folia) “Western” ; and most probably the “Black” Poplar represented is not 
Pofidus nigra. 
Anatomie de la tile du Lasius niger. By Charles Janet. inches by 9} inches. 
32 pages. With 5 plates. Limoges, Ducourtieux and Gout ; and Retn- 
placement des Muscles vibrateurs du vol par des colonnes d' adipocytes, chez les 
Fourmis, afirts le vol nuptial. By the same authors. 8J inches x 1 1 inches. 
4 pages. With 2 figures. Paris, Comptes rendus. Academic des Sciences. 
These two latest instalments of M. Janet’s life-long study of ants and other 
hymenopterous insects are marked by the marvellously minute anatomical detail 
of his previous publications. His announcement that the fibres of the vibratory 
muscles in the (pteen ant are completely replaced after the nuptial flight by 
adipose tissue, seems to be an extremely important observation in anim.1l 
metabolism. 
Blaikie's Nature- Knowledge Diary. Compiled, with notes on Nature Study, 
by W. Percival Westell. loj inches x 6J inches. 64 pages. Blackie 
and Son. Price 6d. net. 
This ruled note-bcjok contains squared pages for a barometric curve, headed 
“Monthly Weather Chart,” for a year, and some twenty-two double pages of 
seventeen lines each, or about one line per diem for a twelvemonth, divided into 
fifteen vertical columns, headed Date; Barometer; Thermometer; Seaweed; 
Rainfall; Direction and Velocity of Wind; Locality; Soil, &c. ; Ornitho- 
logy (Birds) ; Entomology ( Insects) ; Tree and 1 ledges ; Wild b'lowers ; Farm 
and Crops ; Farmyard ; Garden ; and General Notes and Observations. Four 
blank pages— surely too few— arc provided “ for sketches, di.igrams,” &c., and 
