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suggested their connection with cattle-ways the interest of the scientific world was 
aroused. The additions in this re-issue, including the account of some experi- 
ments which they have conducted, show that the authors have not been idle 
during the last three years. The volume is illustrated by some thirty fine photo- 
graphic blocks, one of which we reproduce by the publishers’ kinil permission, and 
its general “get-up” is such as to fit it for the most critical book-collector. 
The Naturalist for October, with six pages of plates, liesides other illustrations, 
and an assortment of articles of even more varied interest than usual, is simply 
preposterously cheap at 6d. 
British Birds for October contains, inter alia, continuations of Mr. I’ycraft’s 
papers on Nestling Birds and of Mr. Headley’s on Wind and Flight. 
Nature Reader Monthly for October is another wonderful pennyworth of 
interesting and accurate information by Mr. Shoosmith, on nettles, cals and a 
piece of chalk, with twebe excellent illustrations. We like the parallel that dead 
nettles “are often found growing in company with stinging nettles, as though 
seeking their protection, just as in the Middle Ages the common people sought 
protection from their enemies by dwelling as close as possible to a strong castle 
or fortress.” 
Received. — Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Leaflet, No. 183 on Sycamore 
Leaf Blotch (Rhytisma acerinum. Fries), No. 193 on Winter-Rot of Potatoes 
(Nectria solani, Pers.), No. 194 on Coltsfoot (Tussilago Farfara, L.), No. 196 on 
the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906, and No. 200 on Black-Rot of 
Cabbages, Turnips, &c. {^Pseudomonas campestris, E. Smith) ; Bird Notes and 
News, Autumn Number; The Victorian Naturalist and The American Botanist 
for September ; The Irish Naturalist, The Animals' Friend, The Agricultural 
Economist and The Estate Magazine for October. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
561 . Bullock’s Museum. — I remember being taken to see Bullock’s 
Museum about 1822 ; but instead of stuffed tropical wild beasts there were only 
a few live reindeer, and Esquimaux, or Laplanders, with their sledges. The 
deer were in a pen, e.xcept the one or two that were harnessed and driven round 
the smooth and quiet circle. But the chief part of the show was Belzoni’s 
Egyptian curiosities, from which it was called BelzonP s Museum, and the new 
building the Egyptian Hall. I distinctly remember the upright figure of a nude 
mummy, of a vandyke-brown colour and looking as if it had been painted and 
varnished. Of the rest of the Egyptian catacombs, &c., iny recollections, after 
eighty-five years, ate somewhat mixed. 
Winscombe, Somerset. Theodore Compton. 
562 . Orang. — The Orang, which is now at the Zoological Gardens, displays 
his ingenuity in this way. He selects from his bed a long wheat straw with 
a head on it. This, with his right hand, he passes through the network of his 
cage, and dips the head into the tank of water which is on the other side of the 
passage, and about three feet away. He then draws the water-laden straw to his 
left hand, with which he passes it to his lips. This action seems to justify the 
remark of a boy which I overheard ; “ Well, he’s got some brains if he is a 
monkey.” 
Francis Ram. 
563 . Dormouse. — Mr. A. L. Hussey tells us in No. 550 of the doings of a 
pair of dormice in one of his nesting boxes, and says that “only a higher intelligence 
than human can explain how these two little creatures communicated with each 
other, and formed a resolution to make this box their own.” In the face of this, 
as one with only ordinary intelligence, I dare not attempt to “explain,” but 
venture to propound the theory : — 
