LETTER TO THE EDITOR. 
Gowbarrow Fall and Aira Force. 
Dear Sir, — -The National Trust have raised £1 2,000 for the 
purchase of Gowbarrow Fall and Aira Force. Since the money 
was raised the Trust have been able to arrange with the owner of 
the property for possession of a field of 22 acres west of Aira 
Beck, and to enable them to obtain full power over the whole 
Aira Vale, they are anxious to secure a magnificent meadow of 
32 acres, which slopes from the Fall down to the shore of 
Uilswater. They have the option to purchase this at ^864, of 
which £200 has been promised, and I have had a conditional 
offer of ^Tioo if I can raise five other gifts of like amount, or of 
^50 if I can raise eleven others of £50. I am naturally anxious to 
see the crown thus set upon our labours, but I know not how to 
get the offer before the public unless you can help me. 
Yours truly, 
Crosthwaite, Keswick. H. D. Rawnslky. 
1 am confident that any one who visits Gowbarrow will see 
that the addition of the 32-acre meadow will enhance the value 
of the whole purchase. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
The British Woodlice. By Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S., and Charles Sillem. 
With 25 Plates and 59 Figures in the Text. Duckworth and Co. Price 6s. net. 
The Society gains a reflected lustre from the issue of so thorough and so 
useful a piece of work as this monograph by our Honorary Secretary and another. 
We have previously made brief reference to it as it appeared in instalments in 
the Essex Naturalist ; but doubtless in an independent volume form it will 
appeal to a wider public. To some people the terrestrial Isofoda, or Woodlice, 
may not appear a very interesting group ; but it is the monographing of these 
less attractive groups that is of the greatest service to the advancement of science. 
A brief but well illustrated Introduction describes the systematic position, 
geological history, anatomy, embryology, and habits of woodlice, while their 
local names and the methods of collecting and preserving them are also dealt 
with. The four families, with the twelve genera and twenty-five British species 
as yet known are then described, with their synonymy and distribution, both 
British, or rather Britannic, and foreign, and a full bibliography and index are 
added. Mr. Charles Sillem’s twenty-five plates, representing all the species 
and drawn from life, are excellent, and have been beautifully reproduced by 
F. W. Reader. The actual length of each species in millimetres is stated on 
the plates ; but we do not think this should do away with the system of adding 
an engraved line showing the true length by the side of the magnified image. 
Printers and publishers have contributed to the attractiveness of the volume, 
and it should have the effect of extending the study of this group of animals 
and so adding to our meagre knowledge of their distribution. 
From Paloeolith to Motor Car ', or Heacham Tales. By Harry Lowerison, 
A. J. Whiten. Price 3s. 6d. net. 
We always expect something fresh and original from Mr. Lowerison, and here 
we certainly have what we expect. It is an excellent notion to impress the 
general sequence of social and national history by a chronological series of tales 
