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her enlhusiasm for Shakespere’s Warwickshire, suggest that the authoress is an 
American, and there is occasionally a slightly excessive flippancy in her style, nor 
is much information to be gathered from her pages. The illustrations too, 
beautiful as they are, seem somewhat aimless. The writer is, however, by no 
means lacking in enthusiasm for English scenery and has dipped far and wide 
into the modern literature of her subject. The printing is excellent, so that the 
book as a whole forms a pleasing gilt-book for any Nature lover. 
A Cctirse in Invertebrate Zoology. By Professor H. S. Pratt, Boston, U.S.A., 
and London. Ginn and Co. Price 6s. 
There are but 210 pages in this text-book, twenty of which are occupied by a 
very terse glossary and the index, and fourteen by an appendix on classification, 
so that only 176 remain for the guide to the dissection of the thirty-four types 
chosen. These are most judiciously selected, fourteen being taken from the 
Arthropoda and four each from the Mollusca and the Protozoa. We miss the 
graphic description of naked-eye characters in “ Huxley and Martin,” and the 
actual description of the dissections is necessarily very brief, whilst as there are 
no illustrations, an accompanying atlas like Prof. Howes’s is a desideratum, 
though the student is meant to draw everything himself. 
One and All Gardening, 1902. Edited by E. O. Greening. Agricultural and 
Horticultural Association. Price 2d. 
This is the seventh annual issue of this wonderful production — 200 pages and 
more than as many illustrations for twopence I All horticultural tastes are 
catered for : roses, peas, potatoes, orchids, and water plants, pergolas, garden 
seats, hints to exhibitors and for the owners of small gardens, all find a place ; 
and, as Mr. Greening means his hardy annual to be a perennial in interest, there 
is no repetition from previous numbers. Of course, the whole thing is an 
advertisement, but in this case it is difficult to say which is the more valuable, 
the seeds and other wares of the Association or the advertisement itself. 
Other Worlds; Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability. By Garrett P. 
Serviss. Ilirschfeld Bros. Price 6s. net. 
Though not written with the graphic pen of a Proctor, this is a trustworthy 
account of our present knowledge of the planets, which, as the writer says, has 
much enlarged since the date of the works of Proctor and Flammarion. It is 
well illustrated with, among other views, a chart, after Schiaparelli, of the 
wonderful surface of Mars, and with six charts of the zodiacal constellations. 
Received : From the Agent-General for Western Australia, four large-scale 
maps of the Coolgardie district ; The Victorian Natmalist and The American 
Botanist for April; The Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society for 
1901 ; Science Gossip, The Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, The Naturalists' 
Journal, The Humanitarian, The Animals’ Friend, Our Animal Friends, and 
The Animal World for May. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Hedgehogs and Eggs. — I have noticed several letters recently re hedge- 
hogs eating eggs and the entrails of hens whilst sitting, which I do not doubt for 
a moment, as I know they are very fond of flesh food of almost any kind. In 
“History of Selborne,” I believe it is recorded where one was known to have 
fed on the udder of a living sheep, the same having been caught by its wool in 
some briars and so held fast. I have a pet one in my possession which, although 
very fond of meat, never molests the hens or eats their eggs, for during last summer 
his run lay straight across a large fowl pen containing generally as many as twenty 
chickens and sitting hens, and he invariably went to sleep in a corner of the hen 
house under the boarded floor over which hens where most of the time sitting. I 
have always been led to understand how fond they were of apples: well, I have 
constantly kept api:les in part of his run and examined them regularly, but could 
never find any trace of them having been bitten by him. I am looking for him 
