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wing are amongst the most numerous and the best. One suggestion we would 
make — an appeal, in fact, from Europe to America — in view of a subse(|uent 
edition, and that is, that the scientific names of animals and plants should be 
added. This is no question of mere pedantry : it is absolutely necessary, if we 
on this side of the Atlantic are to (ully comprehend our friends’ meaning. In 
the light of some letters which have reache<l us, apropos of the recent murder 
of a warden, we think that it cannot be too widely known that the killing of 
the White Herons— the source of the so-called “aigrettes” or “ospreys” — 
is forbidden by law in the United States. These species and others allied to 
them, however, breed also in Central and .South America, where they are not 
protected. Mr. Job, like everyone who has been on the spot or obtained 
information as to the facts of this “ plume ” traflic at first hand, uses strong and 
decided language as to its infamy. “This is,” he says, “one of the moral 
questions — to be classed with the opium traffic and the slave trade — to which 
there is but one side.” 
Extinct Animals. By Professor E. Ray Lankester. With 218 illustrations. 
Archibald Constable and Co. Price 7s. 6d. net. 
The lectures adapted to a juvenile audience, delivered for many years past at 
the Royal Institution by the most able e.xponents of science, have long ago 
demonstrated that popular science, science, that is, made intelligible to all, is by 
no means necessarily inaccurate, as used to be supposed. Professor I.ankester, 
the Director of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, affords 
us in this work an admirable illustration of this fact. He has utilised the 
unrivalled opportunities of his position to give his young hearers the very latest 
results of palteontological research, not only drawing upon his own many-sided 
zoological labours, on the Feather Star-fish, the King-Crab, the Old Red Sand- 
stone Fishes, and the Okapi of the Congo forests, but also describing the results 
of Dr. Andrews’ digging in the Egyptian Fayum and Professor Amalitzky’s dis- 
interring of Pariasanrus from the Triassic cliffs of the Northern Dvina. His facts 
are more marvellous than most fairy tales ; but the value of the lectures as given, 
and of the book as a most attractive introduction to geology, consists rather in the 
way in which he inculcates imperceptibly the method of scientific reasoning. 
Five invaluable illustrations tell afresh the instructive story of the so-called 
Serapeum at Puzzuoli, just as the three, which, by the courtesy of the publishers, 
we are able to reproduce, teach the meaning of analogy and homology in com- 
parative anatomy. The volume has as a frontispiece an excellent portrait of the 
author ; and, considering its wealth of illustration, is, in our opinion, a remark- 
ably cheap one. 
The Uses of British Plants, Traced from Antiquity to the Present Day, together 
■with the Derivation of their Names. By the Rev. Prof. G. Henslow. With 
288 illustrations. Lovell, Reeve and Co. Price 4s. fid. net. 
Our esteemed Vice-President has given us in this volume a veritable multum 
in parvo. Etymologies of the Latin and English names, taken from the two best 
sources, the late i\lr. Randal Alcock and Dr. Prior, are followed by summary 
accounts of uses ancient and modern, real or imaginary, culled from Theophrastus, 
Pliny, the Herbnls and other sources; and illustrations, selected, we think, from 
those prepared by Messrs. Filch and Worthington .Smith for Bentham’s Flora, 
are also given. The arrangement is systematic ; but there is a tolerably full 
index of names, so that the little handbook of less than 200 pages should prove 
a useful companion to the merely descriptive floras and an interesting book of 
reference to the student of economic botany. 
I go a-Walking. Compiled from “British Birds and Their Haunts,” and other 
Works, by the Rev. C. A. Johns. Illustrations from photographs by 
Charles Reid, Wishaw. Part L, Through the Country Lanes. With thirty 
illustrations. Part II., Through the Meadows. With twenty-four illustra- 
tions. T. N. Foulis. Price fid. each part, net. 
We congratulate Mr. Reid and his publisher on a happy title for a good idea. 
The work is planned for two volumes, each containing three sixpenny parts. 
