REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
The Natural History of Aquatic Insects. By Professor L. C. Miall, F.R,S< 
With illustrations by A. R. Hammond, F.L.S. Reprint. Macmillan 
and Co. Price 3s. 6d. 
If there are any of our readers who have not yet made the acquaintance 
of this classic, worthy follower that it is of the works of Reaumur, Swam- 
merdam, or De Geer which it commemorates, they have now an opportunity 
of doing so at a reduced price. Almost every tyro in Nature-study must 
have noticed whirligig beetles, water-scorpions, and water-boatmen, to say 
nothing of gnats, dragon-flies and may-flies ; but here he will find their 
life-histories set forth and fully illustrated. There is a fascinating account 
of the confusion of the drone-fly with the honey-bee which led to the 
ancient belief in the production of bees from putrid carcasses, and anglers 
might do worse than study in these pages the originals of some of their 
“ flies.” 
The Nature Student’s Note Book. By the Rev. Canon Steward and Miss 
Alice E. Mitchell. Constable and Co. Price 2s. net. 
This is a well-conceived and well-executed little book intended for 
training-college students. It contains brief monthly lists of animals and 
plants to be observed, with notes on weather and folk-lore and garden and 
field operations, a summary of the Wild Birds Protection Acts, a fist of 
books of reference, and detailed tables of the classification of mammals, 
birds, insects and flowering plants. The first part is interleaved, and the 
only faults we have to find with the work are that the tables are printed in 
dangerously small type and that the interleaving will hardly suffice for 
more than one season’s observations. A quarter of a century ago the 
students of the Royal Agricultural College had similar note-books, but 
they were, we believe, produced in a cheaper form so as to be renewable 
yearly. 
The Parents’ Review for February contains the second of the Fesole 
Club Papers by W. G. Colhngwood, entitled “ The Boughs of the 
Branstock.” This is an admirable Ruskinian drawing-lesson, teaching 
the student how to look at a tree. 
Haileybury Natural Science Society. Report for 1902. 
This is a brief statement of good sound all-round work. We appreciate 
the candour of the statement, under “ Ornithology,” that “ there was a 
great deal of egg-collecting, occasionally leading to some observations of 
birds,” and that “ some of the best collectors are merciful to the birds, 
though this is not an invariable characteristic.” 
Hampstead Heath Protection Society. Sixth Annual Report. 
This report shows that the Society has most effectively held a watching 
brief on behalf of Hampstead Heath since 1897. Such local interest is 
essential for the protection of public property. 
Received: — Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the American Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; Journal of the New York Botanical 
Garden for January; The American Botanist for December, 1902, and 
January, 1903 ; The Butterflies and Moths of Europe, by W. F. Kirby, 
Parts 20 and 21 ; Board of Agriculture Leaflets, Nos. 61, 74, 75, 76, 77 and 
78, on Sheep-scab, Feeding-stuffs, Root-knot Disease in Cucumbers and 
Tomatoes, Cucumber and Melon Leaf-blotch, Finger-and-Toe in Turmps 
and Liver Disease in Poultry respectively ; The Irish Naturalist, Nature- 
Studv, Humanitarian, Our Animal Friends, The Animals’ Friend, Animal 
World, and A gricultural Economist for February. 
