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NATURE NOTES 
Monday and Tuesday, November 2 and 3, from 11 a.m. to 
9 p.m., admission rs. On Monday evening, at 5 p.m., Mr. 
Oliver G. Pike will lecture on “ Pictures from Birdland,” and on 
Tuesday, at 5 p.m., Mr. R. B. Lodge will lecture on “ Some 
Suburban Birds and Beasts,” and, at a meeting of our Society, 
the Editor will speak on “ The Study of Living Plants,” and 
Mr. Edward A. Martin on “ Open Spaces and Green Fields.” 
The Exhibition is held in the Offices of the Civil Service 
Commission, Burlington Gardens, New Bond Street. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
The Book of the Cat. By Frances Simpson. With 12 coloured plates 
and numerous illustrations in the text. Cassell and Co. Price 1 5s. net. 
That most self-sufficient of our domestic tyrants can have little to 
complain of in this sumptuous monograph which Miss Simpson has duti- 
fully devoted to the glorification of his or her race. Nothing that printing 
or illustration can do has been spared. There is a coloured frontispiece 
by Madame Ronner — facile princeps among delineators of the cat — and 
several uncoloured illustrations also by her : there is a chapter on cat- 
mummies and cats of the past, in which appears Sir John Tenniel’s picture 
of Alice and the Cheshire Cat ; and there are chapters on the anatomy, 
the distribution and the diseases of cats. It is not a treatise on com- 
parative anatomy, as was the late Professor Mivart’s book “ The Cat ” ; 
but it is essentially a fancier’s book. Every breed is figured and described : 
feeding, housing, management and breeding are fully discussed ;fand we 
cannot see that the cat-lover can want more than is given here. The 
volume is undoubtedly a cheap one. 
The Geological Structure of Monzoni and Fassa. By Maria M. Ogilvie 
Gordon, I). Sc., Ph.D. Transa r iions of the Edinburgh Geological 
Society, vol. viii. . Special Part. Price 6s. 
We do not think we can recall any piece of scientific work by a woman 
quite capable of comparison with this summary of Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon’s 
ten years’ labours in the Dolomites of the Southern Tyrol. Her detailed 
mapping of a large and complex region of Permian and Triassic rocks 
with their associated igneous series is here represented by a fine coloured 
map, twelve sections, of which eight are also coloured, and fourteen;beau- 
tiful photographs, whilst the memoir itself, almost entirely stratigraphical, 
runs to 179 pages - The price charged for it is certainly not excessive, 
and we can only hope that it will not suffer in repute by being issued 
by a society less well known than those of London. Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon’s 
interpretation of the area in question is somewhat revolutionary ; but 
she has the evidence in support of her view that no one else has ever 
collected. 
Bird Notes and News, No. 3, October, 1903. 
We are glad to see from this number, which has now reached eight 
pages, that our sister society is working with all its accustomed energy 
in many directions. The Pole-trap Bill, Bird-Protection in Egypt and 
India, Winter Millinery, and Egg-collecting by Schoolboys are among 
the subjects with which this issue deals. 
