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others, we seem to see the love of imparting information somewhat too strongly 
evinced. It is most important that all teachers should recognise the heuristic 
principle, though it may have been exaggerated. Seven pages devoted to crypto- 
gams might just as well have been omitted ; and we cannot help thinking that in 
Chapter XIX. too many genera are enumerated. The summary of the botanical 
regions of South Africa which, with an index-map, concludes the book, is an 
excellent feature. 
The Country Press Pictorial Postcards : Leaves of British Trees and Shrubs 
(two sets of six each) ; British Trees (two sets). The Country Press. 
Price 6d. per set. 
These postcards are printed in monochrome from the Nature-prints and photo- 
graphs illustrating works by Mr. F. G. Heath. The two packets illustrating 
leaves comprise one hundred and twenty-five figures representing thirty-nine 
species ; and, though they only show the coarser veins and lack the autumn tints 
so well reproduced in Mr. Heath’s original work, they are of distinctly educational 
value. The cards in the other two packets each represent one tree, or its bole, 
viz., beech, chestnut, horse-chestnut, maple, oak and walnut, and first-rate 
examples have been chosen. 
Manuring. By E. O. Greening. Agricultural and Horticultural Association. 
Price id. 
This is the sixth of the One & All Garden Books and fully explains the 
principles and practice of manuring with the wealth of pictorial illustration 
characteristic of the series. 
The Museum Gazette. Conducted by Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.C.S., F.R.S., 
LL.D. Nos. I — 3, May — July. John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, Ltd. Price 
6d. monthly. 
We welcome the appearance of our new contemporary. The first number 
appeared as “The Haslemere Museum Gazette ; a Journal of Objective Educa- 
tion,” w'ithout any editor’s name ; but any one acquainted with “ The Home 
University” would have recognised the controlling mind of Ur. Hutchinson, 
whilst readers of “Nature Study” would have detected the work of Mr. 
Swanton. The second and third numbers bear the title “ The Museum Gazette 
and Journal of Field-Study. Conducted by Jonathan Hutchinson F.R.C.S., 
F.R.S., LL.D., assisted by E. W. Sw'anton and many others.” As might be 
anticipated, the contents are delightfully varied. The adaptation of structure 
to function, the outdoor natural history of the season, and the organisation of 
educational museums are alike prominent, while the importance of history, 
literature and art is never overlooked. The July number and the forthcoming 
issue for August are chiefly devoted to seaside natural history, and the fact that 
the former contains no less than seven plates on special plate-paper shows that 
at sixpence a month The Museum Gazette is cheap indeed. 
East Kent Scientific and Natural History Society : Report and Transactions for 
the Year ending September 30, 1905. 
Together with reports of a few papers on such general topics as Bacteria, 
Planetary Evolution and Polarised Light, this annual report of an old-established 
Society contains valuable local matter, such as papers on the initial cause of the 
Dover Valley and on the intermittent streams of East Kent, and, in addition to 
full meteorological records, an illustrated account of a new wild hybrid between 
Ophrys muscifera and O. aranifera. Those who remember him will be glad to 
have the portrait of the late George Dowker which forms the frontispiece to the 
Report. 
Proceedings of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society , 
1905-6. Price 2s. 6d. 
If “ Notes on the Entomology of the Hawaiian Islands,” or an account of the 
American Eurymus Eurythene , are somewhat out of place in the “ Proceedings ” 
of a South London Society, this complaint does not apply to the learned papers 
by Mr. Tutt and Mr. Adkin on “British Plume Moths,” and on the Lengthened 
Pupal stage respectively, nor, we think, to purely general papers such as Mr. 
Scourfield’s capital account of Mendelism. The illustrated account of the Chart 
field meeting and the plate of the varieties of Aplecla nebulosa contribute to make 
this a most valuable volume. 
