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Councils have between them 600 school gardens and 8,300 pupils receiving 
garden lessons. 
Soils : their Nature and Management. By Primrose McComiell. Illustrated. 
X 5 in. Pp. 104. Cassell and Co. Price is. net. 
This is the work of a man who in his own person refutes the common fallacy 
of the opposition of theory and practice, he being at the same time a man of 
scientific training and a practical farmer on a large scale. The result is a 
thoroughly accurate and thoroughly practical handbook. It deals with the origin 
of the soil, with some mention of earth-worms and soil-bacteria, with the chemis- 
try, geology and physics of the soil, the influence of the physical geography of 
the farm, and finally with the improvement and tillage of the soil. Every intel- 
ligent farmer should read this little book, and every rural schoolmaster should 
master its contents to make his teaching of real value to his scholars. 
Hull Museum Publications, Nos. 45-52. By Thomas Sheppard. x 5J in. 
September, 1907, to May, 1908. A. Brown and Son. Price id. each. 
Is there any other museum curator who does as much single-handed to make 
known the treasures under his care as Mr. Sheppard? Here, by the cheap 
expedient of striking off reprints from a local paper, or from various journals 
which welcome his contributions, he gives us, in penny numbers, accounts of 
coaching times at Hull, of an old church library, of newly-acquired coins, of 
mementoes of Wilberforce, of British, Roman and Anglo-Saxon remains, of a 
British Chariot Burial at Hunmanby, of the Patrington Sun-dial, of the old 
whaling fleets, of mediaeval encaustic tiles, of fossil fish from the Chalk, and of 
Bronze-Age celts. All are alike thorough and scholarly. Mr. Sheppard has 
also sent us a reprint from the Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field 
Naturalists' Club, “ In Memoriam John Roberts Boyle,” in which a painful task 
is handled with exquisite delicacy. 
Proceedings of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society, 
1907-8. With 5 plates. Price 2s. 6d. net. 
Both the Annual Address by the President, Mr. R. Adkin, and one of the 
papers included in this volume entitled “ Our Authorities,” by Mr. H. J. Turner, 
are of a historical character, the latter dealing mainly with the eighteenth cen- 
tury and the former with the work of local societies, and recent attempts to com- 
bine their efforts in Unions. Several purely entomological papers are also 
included in the volume. 
Epsom College Natural History Society. Report for 1907. Andrew and Son. 
Price IS. 6d. 
This affiliated society continues to do good work. We note with pleasure the 
re-discovery of Herminium Monorchis, and hope that the newly-established 
botanical garden will benefit both the society and the school. 
Haileyhury Natural Science Society. Report for 1907. 
This modest Report shows that the excellent Museum suffers increasingly 
from congestion. The Society hardly seems to number as large a proportion of 
the school as it should. 
Kelway's A/anual of Horticulture. Fifty-sixth Edition. lof x 8J in. Pp. 
370. 
This sumptuous and comprehensive trade catalogue, with copious illustrations, 
including coloured plates by Mr. A. P. W. Hayward, continues to proclaim the 
great Langport horticultural establishment. 
Received: The Fern Bulletin for July 1907 and April 1908; The American 
Botanist for February; Bird-Lore for March-June ; The fournal of the Board 
of Agriculture for April ; The ILictorian Naturalist for April and May ; Know- 
ledge, The Humanitarian, The Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, British Birds, 
The Animals' Friend, The Estate Alagazine and The Agricultural Economist 
for May, June and July. 
