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REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Weather Lore : a collection of Proverbs , Sayings and Rules concer)iing the 
Weather , compiled and arranged by Richard Inwards, F.R.A.S., Past 
President of the Royal Meteorological Society. Third edition, revised and 
augmented. Elliot Stock. Demy 8vo, pp. xii. and 233. Price 7s. 6d. 
It is not surprising that Mr. Inwards’ compilation has reached a third edition. 
It is a thoroughly business-like piece of work, some 3,000 extracts sensibly 
classified and well indexed, and the whole presented in a well printed and 
strongly bound volume at a moderate price. It affords us a perfect mine of 
interesting, if somewhat disjointed reading. Mere, for example, are some of the 
extracts relating to October : — 
“ Dry your barley in October, 
Or you’ll always be sober. 
“ Because if this is not done there will be no malt. — Swainson. 
“ Wind. — A good October and a good blast, 
To blow the hog acorn and mast. 
“ Fine. — There are always nineteen (some say twenty-one) fine days in 
October. — K ent. 
"■Rain. — Much rain in October, much wind in December. 
“ Fogs. — For every fog in October a snow in the winter, heavy or light 
according as the fog is heavy or light. 
“ Leaves. — If in the fall of the leaves in October many of them wither on the 
boughs and hang there, it betokens a frosty winter and much snow. 
“ October and November. — October and November cold indicate that the 
following January and February will be mild and dry. — C. L. PRINCE. 
“ October and Winter. — When birds and badgers are fat in October, expect a 
cold winter. — United States.” 
It should at once be stated that the author does not himself endorse the many 
and often contradictory saws that he has collected. Every naturalist must recog- 
nise how many of the varying phenomena of the organic world are dependent 
upon meteorological conditions, and every devout follower of Gilbert White will 
take an interest in the weather. For some reasons we should have preferred 
more precise references than those given by Mr. Inwards, and in one or two places 
he might have given rather more information, e.g., by adding the French Revolu- 
tionary names of the months to Sydney Smith’s satire on p. 7 and giving the 
passage — it amounts only to some five-and-lwenty lines — from “ A Midsummer 
Night’s Dream,” referred to on p. 9, which, by the way, is in Scene 1 and not, 
as stated, in Scene 2. The scientific names should have been added to the useful 
lists of plants with their dates of flowering and hours of opening given on pp. 52 
and 53, and several mis-spellings occur in those which are given, e.g., “ Chino- 
doxa” for “ Lhionodoxa ” (p. 52), “ Trajopogon ” for “ Tragopogon" (p. 189), 
and “ bankinia ” for “ bauhinia ” (p. 191). The book is illustrated with a folding 
frontispiece of the ten chief types of cloud, from photographs by Colonel H. M. 
Saunders, giving their altitude in feet, kilometres and miles and as compared to 
the chief mountains. 
Flora of the County Donegal, or list of the /lowering plants and ferns with their 
localities and distribution. By Henry Chichester Hart, M.A., F.L.S., 
M.R.I.A. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker; London: David Nutt. 
8vo, pp. xxiv. and 392. Price 7s. 6d. 
We congratulate Mr. Hart on the completion of what has obviously been to 
him a labour of love extending over many years. County floras are rare in 
Ireland and, judging from Mr. Hart’s account of his own almost single-handed 
labours, botanists would seem to be still rarer in Co. Donegal ; so that, but for 
the author’s zeal, we could hardly have expected such a work as the present. 
With its subject matter we are not able to deal from personal knowledge. The 
author records 737 species as native to the county, adopting the curious anti- 
quated custom of including, not only ferns and their allies, but also the Characea.-. 
The records themselves occupy only 188 pages, and there is nothing to complain 
