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NATURE NOTES 
the English branch of the League for the Protection of Swiss 
Scenery and Natural Beauty, a body numbering over 4,500 
members. The article alludes more particularly to the proposed 
Matterhorn railway and that between Goschenen and Andermatt ; 
and only our limited space prevents our quoting from it at 
length. 
The Royal Photographic Society and Colour-Photo- 
graphy. — The fifty-second annual exhibition of this Society, 
which is being held at the New Gallery until the 26th inst., 
presents many points of interest to naturalists. Mr. Douglas 
English exhibits the life-history of a British Mud Wasp 
{Odynerus spinipes) and a colour photograph of the Musk Beetle 
(Aromia moschatcs) ; Mr. A. J. Kirby sends a fine picture of Polar 
Bears ; Mr. F. Martin-Duncan, a good portrait of a Kangaroo; 
and Messrs. G. A. Booth and Alfred Taylor some excellent 
studies of Herons. Mr. Oliver Pike has portraits of six British 
Owls ; Mr. Daniel Finlayson, some interesting illustrations of 
seed-dispersal ; Mr. J. Howden-Wilkie, some admirable cloud- 
studies ; and Miss L. E. Walter, studies of Swiss glaciers. In 
the Pictorial Section are many excellent pictures of snow, 
chiefly by German artists ; but interest chiefly centres round 
the pictures illustrating Messrs. Lumiere’s latest “ antochrome ” 
plates, by which a coloured transparent positive is obtained by 
one exposure. These plates are apparently not glass, and they 
are coated with starch grains dyed blue-violet, green and red- 
orange, and so blended as to appear of a neutral grey. This 
forms a light-filter and produces a coloured picture granulated, 
but with granulations more microscopic than those of a Missen- 
bach block. This is, undoubtedly, the greatest step in advance 
that has yet been made in the domain of colour-photography. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Memorials of Limtaus : a Collection of Portraits, Manuscripts, Specimens and 
Books exhihited to commemorate the Bicentenary of his Birth. Hiitish 
Museum (Natural History). Special Guides No. 3. 8i inches x 5.J inches. 
Pp. 16. Price 3d. 
\Ye have previously called attention to the valuable educational work carried 
out by the Trustees of the British Museum in the publication of trustworthy 
popular guides to the collections under their care, at prices which must represent 
little more than the bare cost of paper and printing. This Guide, however, 
represents more than most of its predecessors, for it is the catalogue of a 
collection specially got together to bring home to the general public something 
of the life and work of the great naturalist, the bicentenary of whose birth the 
scientific world has this year been celebrating. Such a collection could not 
well have been got together outside of London ; and this little pamphlet of 
“Memorials” is, if anything, too modest in the way in which it deals with 
its subject. It contains a biography of Linnaus confined to a single page, 
and another page devoted to the history of his collections, the remainder being 
