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REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
To Selborne for a Holiday. By E. B. N. Guildford. Woodbridge Press. Price 
IS. net. 
Though modest in tone and appearance, this dainty little brochure amply 
fulfils the promise of its title. In 35 pages it tells simply and sympathetically of 
the home of Gilbert White, and how to reach it. The Church, the Wakes, the 
Plestor, and the Hanger are briefly described in turn and a few words are added 
on the environs. No doubt, by the way, need have been expressed as to White’s 
having planted the three lindens opposite the Wakes ; whilst the modern name of 
the “ VVishing Stone ” has misled the author, as it has many of his predecessors as 
to the antiquity of this “ obelisk,” as the naturalist might have called it. The 
book is beautifully printed on good paper with wide margins and rough edges 
and a neat wrapper, whilst eight excellent process reproductions of exceptionally 
good photographs, printed on “ Art ” paper, render it a cheap as well as a 
serviceable pocket guide for the pilgrim to the shrine. 
Animals I have Known. By Arthur H. Beavan. T. Fisher Unwin. Price 5s. 
By “animals” the author means “mammals,” and more than half his 
volume is devoted to our British species, wild and domestic, the rest dealing 
with Australasian and South American forms. Though there is rather too 
much hunting, trapping, and killing in the book, and its size permits but a 
few brief notes on each species passed in review, there is a good deal of 
interesting information, obtained by personal observation, scattered through its 
pages. The illustrations, of which there are forty, are not of a very high order ; 
but, no doubt, the volume will form an attractive present for boys. 
Wasps, Social and Solitary. By George W. Peckham and Elizabeth G. Peckham. 
With an Introduction by John Burroughs. Archibald Constable and Co. 
Price 5s. net. 
In a most interesting review of this volume in the Daily Chronicle for 
June 30, our President points out that the main result of the laborious researches 
of the authors is to check and supplement the memorable work of M. Fabre, 
especially as regards instincts, so as to demonstrate the existence in these 
characters of a large amount of individual variation. Those of us who have 
read the popular works on this subject by M. Fabre and Lord Avebury, or have 
heard Mr. Enock lecture on this topic, cannot fail to enjoy this attractive record 
of most painstaking work. 
Observations sitr les GuHpes. By Charles Janet. Paris: C. Naud. 1903. 
The eighty pages of this memoir, supplementing the author’s work issued in 
1894-5, are full of detailed research, dealing with the hornet and .seven other 
species of wasp, with special reference to their nests and combs. The gradual 
transformation of circular into hexagonal cells here described must interest all 
students of the “ Origin of Species.” 
Obser 7 >ations stir les Fotirmis. By Charles Janet. Limoges: Ducourtieux and 
Gout. 1904. 
Dealing mainly, but not exclusively, with Myrmica rubra, this is a most 
important contribution to our knowledge of the details of the anatomy, physio- 
logy and life-history of ants. The first part treats mainly of the sense-organs and 
stigmata, the second of such topics as the formation of new colonies, the 
duration of the various metamorphoses, the nuptial flight, the feeding of ants 
when under observation, and the presence of nematoiies in their nests. The 
work is a continuation of many previous contributions to our knowledge of 
insects from the same pen, and is illustrated by seven excellent plates. 
Description du Matiriel d'une petite installation scienlifique. ire Partie. By 
Charles Janet. Limoges: Ducourtieux and Gout. 1903. 
This ))amphlet of 36 pp., with seven plates, is a detailed description of the 
methods adopted by the author in exhibiting a college collection of fossil inverte- 
brates at Beauvais, giving full measurements and other particulars of cabinets, 
drawers, cases, trays, labels, &c. , which should be of considerable interest to 
museum curators. 
