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was the same. The plant of down}' stem and finely etched 
triple leaflets is all in all. A high authority says that butterflies 
are among the most highly developed insects, that they love 
red and white blossoms, and that red flowers are the most 
complex in their organisation. 
I could have caught my Admiral several times over, but 
cheerfully forbore. The specimens at South Kensington supply 
all that is necessary. Gone are some of our rarer species, and 
vanishing are the Heath Fritillary and Purple Emperor. We 
could ill spare the Red Admiral. 
Battersea. Walter Johnson. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
A Book of the Fields and Woods, being the first book of the North Stafiordshire 
Clarion Field Club. Edited by J. P. Steele. Illustrated by T. T. Blaylock, 
W. Craigmile, C. E. Dawson, S. Filmore, S. Hartley and F. Rhead. Leek : 
W. n. Eaton. Price is. 3d. post free. 
There is apparently to be a new departure in Field Clubs. Hitherto they 
have been mainly assemblies of collectors, and art and sentiment have been very 
completely banished from their realm of pure science. If, however, to the 
modern conception of biology, the essential unity of organic life, we add the 
recognition, with Spencer and Ruskin, that every man must be concerned in 
the welfare of his fellow men, that social life is organic life and social evolution 
a part of organic evolution, we work towards an eirenicon of culture along lines 
hitherto divergent. In this reconciliation we expect that Mr. Low'erison, whose 
excellent little book we recently reviewed and to whom this work “ is affection- 
ately inscribed,” has played an important part. Certainly the North Stafford- 
shire Clarion Field Club is to be congratulated on the beautiful little volume 
which they have produced. The twelve whole-page illustrations and sixteen 
tail-pieces are gems of poetical draughtsmanship and woodcutting, and the format 
does infinite credit to a provincial press. Those who have lately been following 
Mr. Druery in realising the effect of the “ point of view” will be interested in 
Mr. Herbert Barrett’s paper on “ The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Small” ; 
and, though another contributor seems unaware that “ foraminifera ” and 
“strata” are plural words and that encrinites exist in as great variety to-day as 
they ever did in the past, it must be remembered that the essays are mainly those 
of beginners, and that credit must be given for promise and intent as well as for 
complete realisation of a high ideal. Of the verse contributions we prefer this 
opening stanza to a poem on “ The Daffodil ” by J. H. Goring : — 
“ Oh stately, starry daffodil, 
M’hose golden trumpet seems to send 
A herald note o’er dale and hill 
Of Spring’s return and Winter’s end.” 
It is a long time since so small a book has given us so great a pleasure. May 
other Field Clubs follow' suit. 
Our Native Birds and how to Protect Them and Attract Them to Our Homes. 
By D. Lange. New York ; The Macmillan Company. Price 4s. 6d. 
We regret the high price and the somewhat misleading title of this useful 
little American work. It contains no list or description of Americaar birds, but 
it does contain a variety of useful information and much eminently level-headed 
advice to citizens of the United States. Some of the most valuable parts of the 
book are extracts from the Report of Mr. W. T. Hornada}’, presented to the 
