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brief ; but we note with interest the introduction of most suggestive references to 
embryological facts, such as the identity of the external ear hole and Eustachian 
lube with a gill-cleft, and such physiological characters as the alert look which 
accompanies the presence of ears in mammals, and the correlation of the absence 
in this group of striking coloration with the predominance of the senses of smell 
and hearing over sight. The accounts of the various species, in which the pro- 
portion between mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibia and fishes is nicely adjusted, 
are full of interesting notes on habits, anatomy, adaptations and popular legend. 
Kea Parrot. 
(From the same work.) 
so that we do not doubt that the volume will stimulate many a reader to further 
enquiry. The table of contents on p. vii. is, as it stands, most misleading, as in 
the case of five chapters the title of the first paragraph only appears, suggesting 
that forty pages are devoted to the polar bear, as many to the deerlet or chevro- 
tain, and thirty to the painted snipe, whilst as a matter of fact the account of each 
species averages a little over two pages. We are indebted to Messrs. Constable 
for the loan of the three blocks illustrating this notice. 
Verses chiefly about Nature. By G. E. M. Elliott Stock. 
We can hardly accept the title of this little volume, which comes to us daintily 
wrapped in gold-lettered imitation vellum. The verses are mainly religious, nor 
do the few — there are but twenty-five short pieces in all — that deal with “Nature’s 
aspects” reveal any originality of treatment, real knowledge, or exceptional 
felicity of expression. 
Methods in Microscopical Research : Vegetable Histology. By Abraham Flatters, 
F.R.M.S., Lecturer and Demonstrator in Microscopy, Municipal School 
of Technology, Manchester. Sherratt and Flughes. Price 21s. net. 
This work, by one of our most skilled mounters of microscopic objects, awaits 
the receipt of two hundred subscribers before publication. It is to be a crown 
quarto with twenty-three coloured plates, comprising eighty-five hand-painted 
photo-micrographs. In addition to a full exposition of methods of preparing 
objects, it will deal in detail with the histology of each of the parts of a flowering 
plant. Judging from the excellence of the specimen plate we have received — 
four sections of the stem of Pimts — and the technical repute of the author, we 
should think the requisite subscribers will soon be forthcoming. 
