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carefully selected and are accompanied by an excellent coloured frontispiece to 
each volume. Mr. Medd, as the Honorary Secretary of the Nature-Study 
Kxhibition of 1902, has naturally formed a clear idea in his own mind as to how 
the child’s interest is to be aroused and his enquiries directed ; but he has then 
called to his aid nearly eighty writers, mostly those actively engaged in teaching, 
to draw up the 122 lessons which the volumes contain. Such writers as the late 
Miss Ormerod, Mrs. Visger, Professors Lloyd Morgan, (leddes and Grenville Cole, 
Mr. Beddard, Mr. Hedger Wallace, Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb and Mr. \V . J. 
Lucas secure fresh and adequate treatment of all the varied topics of animate and 
inanimate Nature with which they deal. 
The Selbornc Nature Notebook. With Calendar of the Mouth. George Philip 
and Son. Price is. net. 
This is an ordinary exercise book with its pages alternately ruled and plain, 
and some twenty pages of preliminary matter, comprising short lists of flowers, 
trees, birds and insects for each month, weather notes, hints to teachers, &c. 
-\ccuracy is one of the first lessons in science ; but here, out of thirty-four 
“ typical British ferns ” enumerated, five have their names misspelt, while four 
Lycopodiutc appear as “Typical Mosses,” and we are referred to as “ Selborne 
.Society’s .Monthly Notes, 2d. Siuipkin.” This seems dear at a shilling. 
Philip's Nature-Story Studies. George Philip and Son. Price 6d. 
This is a packet of sixteen charming outline drawings illustrative, it is stated, 
of stories in “ In Nature's Storyland,” by Edith Hirons. The artist’s name is not 
given, and in the absence of the stories it is impossible to say how far these 
studies of fairies have anything to do with Nature ; but they are very pretty. 
Home Counties Rambles: The West Herts Series, First Part, eomprisiug Routes 
to Hatfield, St. Albans, Elstree, &^c. By Alf. Holliday. With 18 
illustrations. R. E. Taylor and Son. Price is. net. 
We have constantly urged Mr. Walker Miles not to confine his useful Field- 
Path Rambles to Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and now he has gratified us by break- 
ing new ground, by deputy, in Hertfordshire. Save in venue this first of the 
Home Counties Rambles is identical in plan with our well-tried friends of the 
south-eastern counties. St. Albans and Hatfield give a somewhat less rural tone 
than usual to the excellent photographic illustrations ; but out critical scalpel 
cannot detect any blemish in these useful little books. 
Horniman Museum. Handbook to the Collection arranged as an Introduction to 
the Study of Animal Life. Price id. 
The London County Council seem to be following the educational policy of 
the Trustees of the British Museum, in providing admirable guide-books at less 
than cost price. Some forty well-printed pages on good paper can hardly be 
produced for a penny. The handbook, for which we imagine Professor Haddon, 
the .Advisory Curator, to be mainly responsible, is professedly based on Mr. G. 
H. Carpenter’s paper in the Report of the Museums Association for 1894. It is 
written in a tongue understanded of the people, but contains explanations of such 
difficult terms as species, genus, variation, albinism, melanism, natural selection, 
commensalism, warning colours, mimicry, degeneration and homology. .A classi- 
fied bibliography of books and papers in the Horniman Library which deal with 
the subject is also given. We should much like to see a guide to the Index 
Museum at Cromwell Road on similar lines. 
The British Weather Chart, 1904. By B. G. Jenkins, F.R.A.S. R. Morgan, 
Upper Norwood. Price 6d. 
This scientific-seeming forecast of temperature, pressure and rainfall, pro- 
fessedly based on a curve representing the combined influence of sun, moon and 
planets upon the atmosphere, is now issued for the eighteenth year in succession. 
Mr. Jenkins’s method seems to give results a year in advance almost as accurate 
as those issued by the Meteorological Office twenty-four hours ahead, though 
that is not saying much. 
Knowledge for May contains an interesting illustrated article by Mrs. Dukinfield 
H. Scott, on “ Animated Photographs of Plants.” The photographs are taken 
by the Kammatograph at a cost of only seven shillings a plate. Mrs. Scott’s 
examples include Sparmannia africana, Abrus precatorius, the “ Weather Plant,” 
