NATURE NOTES 
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during the remainder of the night, shining with a pale yellow lustre amongst the 
stars of Gemini. He will be near the moon on the night following October 9. 
Saturn is favourably visible in the evening hours in Aquarius. At the middle 
of October this planet will be due south, altitude 28°, soon after 9 p.m. He 
will be near the moon on October 27. 
W. F. I). 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Field-Path Rambles : Round Croydon : New Edition, price 6d. net. ; Round 
West Mailing and over the Kentish Hills, price is. net. ; Seaford and Lewes 
series, part 1, price is. net. ; and New Ramble Routes in Kent and Surrey, 
price 6d. net. By Walker Miles. R. E. Taylor and Son. 
Our attitude towards this excellent series is always that of Oliver Twist in the 
workhouse ; we want more. We rejoice to see that a new edition of the Croydon 
volume has been called for, and that the railway companies are so far awakened 
to the importance of the rambler as to afford him facilities for returning from a 
station other than that to which he books. The West Mailing volume contains 
a welcome departure in the form of a brief prefatory description of the place, 
and the baldness of the itinerary is relieved by some reference to the quintain 
at Offham and to St. Leonard’s Tower, while there are no less than seven illustra- 
tions of the Abbey. The two other volumes just issued comprise new ground 
or new routes over a familiar area ; but what has Essex done that it should be 
neglected, and are there no field-paths in the valley of the Chess, among the 
Chilterns, or round Aylesbury ? We want more. 
Think l By Alwyn K. Noys. Elliot Stock. Price is. 6d. net. 
This silly booklet is admirably printed and bound. It seems intended to be a 
protest against vivisection, and a suggestion of a future state for all animals as 
compensation for the endurance of pain in this life. Containing some twenty 
small pages of disjointed monologue, it is dear at the price. 
British Grassses ; 23 interesting species popularly and botanically named. 12 
cards. The Country Press. Price is. 
Until more species have been illustrated in the same way, of which the enter- 
prising publishers hold out hopes, we are not sure that these little drawings and 
none too distinct dissections will suffice to enable the tyro to name common 
species which he comes across. They are, however, well printed, habitats and 
dates of flowering are given, and, mirabile dictu, the scientific names are correctly 
spelt. 
A List of the Fungi of the New Forest. By J. F. Rayner. H. M. Gilbert and 
Son. Southampton. Price is. net. 
This carefully compiled list, drawn up for the New Forest Natural History 
Society and the Bournemouth Society of Natural Science, as a result of numerous 
forays during the last twenty years, enumerates some 570 species from the 92,000 
acres of the New Forest, as against over 600 species recorded from the 5,5000 
acres of Epping Forest. As the conditions of the Hampshire woodland are more 
varied than those of Essex, this must, we think, be merely the result of a search 
still demanding greater intensity. Localities are given for the less common 
species: some Mycetozoa, but only two Uredines, are included ; and there are 
illustrations of Geaster hygrometricus, Mulinus caninus, Crepidolus epibryus and 
Sparassis crispa. It is proposed to issue a supplementary list every December. 
Cannot workers be found to complete a cryptogamic companion to the late Mr. 
Townsend’s Flora of Hampshire? Meanwhile, this a valuable contribution to 
that end. 
Check List of the Vertebrates of Ontario. Department of Education, Toronto. 
No price stated. 
The later pages of this pamphlet, those enumerating the mammals of the 
province, are headed “Check List of the Animals of Ontario,” and, though it 
is true that “ Batrachians, Reptiles, Mammals,” appears in large type on the 
