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teeth are long and sharp. (6) The tongue is dry and rough. (7) The 
fur is soft, thick and smooth.” Each of these points is expanded. Thus 
it is duly explained that a cat cannot move its jaws sideways for chewing, and 
A C.vr’s Eye at Nigh r. 
A Cat’s Tongue. 
A Cat’s Foot : Claws 
Extended. 
A Cat’s Mouth. 
A Cat’s Eye by Day. 
A Cat’s Foot. 
has no grinding teeth, and that the roughness of the tongue serves to scrape flesh 
off bones. Almost ever\' point also is illustrated, as will be seen by the figures 
referred to in this summary, which we are enabled, by the publishers’ courtesy, to 
reproduce. 
The Na/u 7 -alisi's Diiecloiy, 1500. L. Upcott Gill. Price is. 6d. nett. 
The sixth annual issue of this most useful directory has been slightly curtailed 
by the abandonment of the attempt to enumerate the books of the year, and it 
appears, we are not surprised to see, at a slightly enhanced price. Though, of 
course, containing errors and omissions, the former appear to us singularly few, 
and the book remains an indispensable table-book to the student of natural 
history who wishes to keep in touch with his fellows. 
Society for the Protection of Birds. Nitith Annual Report. 
This highly satisfactory Report for 1899, showing that 22,000 members have 
been registered, and 2,325 have subscribed during the year, so that the Society 
has “a satisfactory balance” in hand, makes us inclined to envy our sister 
organisation, as does also the statement that the local branches now number 144. 
We are, however, in such complete sympathy with the objects of the Society that 
we can as heartily rejoice in its .success as in our own. 
Epsom College Natural History Society. Report for Year esiding Christmas, 1899. 
No. It. L. W. Andrews and Son, Epsom. Price is. 6d. 
This Report, from a school society which has just become affiliated as a 
Junior Branch to the Selborne Society, is an excellent e.xample of what such a 
report should be. The society has astronomical, botanical, entomological, 
geological, photographic and zoological sections, and their report contains a full 
list of the higher plants observed, with dates of first blooms seen in the year, a 
similar list of Lepidoptera, in which we note, as in other districts, the record of 
the abundance of the Humming-bird Hawk-moth, a list of birds with dates, an 
anthropometric report on the boys in the school, and a full series of meteorological 
observations. 
The Humane Review, No. l, April, 1900. London: Ernest Bell, 6, York 
Street, Covent Garden. Price is. net (quarterly). 
We welcome the advent of this very promising quarterly, in which every 
phase of humanitarianism is promised a home. The article which most appeals 
to our special sympathies in this opening number is that by Mr. Hudson on 
“The Hartford W’arbler.” Paper, type and wrapper leave nothing to be desired. 
