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allowed to carry on. From a tactical point of view it is perhaps regrettable that 
one of these excellent little essays should be the work of a lady, but then it may 
well be doubted whether any good can be accomplished by such a publication 
where those concerned have shown themselves entirely unamenable to reason. 
The South Eastern Naturalist, being the Transactions of the South Eastern 
Union of Scientific Societies for 1904. Elliot Stock. Price (to non-members) 
2s. 6(1. net. 
This is an excellent record of a most successful Congress, that held at Maid- 
stone last June, the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Union. It runs to over 140 
pages with nine whole-page plates, including views of the fine Norman work at 
Mailing Abbey and St. Leonard’s Tower, four views of the Maidstone Museum, 
of w'hich the nucleus is Chillington Manor House, built in 1562, and pictures of 
the neolithic implements and Keltic pottery recently found near Ilaslemere. 
Besides the Address by the President, Mr. Rudler, the papers include a history of 
Allington Castle by Mr. Faicke, its present occupier, and Mr. W. M. Webb’s 
piper on “ The Teaching of Nature-Study.” We are pleased to see in the Report 
and throughout this volume abundant evidence that the Union is steadily pro- 
gressing in every respect. 
The h ish Naturalist for September : Special Sligo Conference Number. Piice6d. 
There are four naturalists’ field clubs united in the Irish F'ield Club Union, 
those of Dublin, Belfast, Limerick and Cork, and they have a total membership 
of 850 only ; and yet they maintain an excellent monthly magazine which, on this 
occasion of their fourth tiiennial conference, has blossomed out into 50 p.iges and 
17 plates 1 Their meeting last July occupied a week, and, with only one evening’s 
fonnal conference, was devoted to serious collecting; so that we have here, as 
the work of experts, a far more complete conspectus of the natural history and 
nrchteology of the district than those prepared in advance for the meetings of the 
British Association. We notice that 62 members attended, and 18 contributed to 
the reports on the various subdivisions of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. 
A new species of water-mite Eylais bicornuta, Halbert, was discovered, and is 
figured in this number, whilst the Union was fortunate in having the camera of 
Mr. Welch of Belfast, to record other natural phenomena. We notice also that 
on one evening “the scientific proceedings in the Town Hall were suspended 
early in favour of dancing.” 
Hull Museum Publications, No. 20, Quarterly Record of Additions, No. ix. By 
Thomas Sheppard, F.G.S., Curator. Price id. 
The cost of producing this remarkable little museum-guide is, no doubt, 
much reduced by reprinting it from a local paper, though the typography, in con- 
sequence, leaves something to be desired. The “ Museum Notes and News,” 
which occupy ten pages, appear to us to be unnecessarily disjointed and spaced, 
though their subject-matter is good in itself ; but then the pamphlet as a whole 
contains 38 pages and 8 illustrations, and this for a penny. Hull is not London, 
and Mr. Sheppard has not the resources, say, of a llorniman Museum at his 
disposal, but working almost single-handed, he has certainly done much. 
Revue des Auimaux, No. 8, August, Paris. Price 50 centimes. 
We are glad to see this monthly organ of the Ligne pour la Defense des 
Animaux, which has its headquarters at 7, Rue de Laborde. The league numbers 
among its supporters many of the gre.atest names in the literary world of France. 
The review is illustrated and seems much on the lines of our own Animal IVorld. 
Ilaslemere Microscope and Natural Histoiy Society. Report for 1903-1904. 
Besides the ordinary contents of a satisfactory Report, we have in this record 
of a Society which is affiliated to the Selborne Society, a fairly full enumeration of 
the late Keltic pottery found at Ilaslemere last year. It is interesting to note that 
some of this is similar to that from the Early Iron .\ge Lake-dwellings at Glaston- 
bury, jirobably dating, therefore, from about 200 U.c. 
'J'he University of Colorado Studies, Vol. II., No. 2. Price 50 cents. 
As miscellaneous as before, ranging from “ .State Constitutions” to “ Pakeonto- 
logy,” and from Birds to Dili) droquinoxalines, this is undoubtedly a valuable 
collection of researches by the [irofessorial staff of the university, and we are glad 
to see the local natural history, viz., the paleontology, birds and fishes of Boulder 
County, occrrp)ing a ]ironiinent place in i*. 
