THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 147.] SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1859. [Price Id. 
LOCAL FLORAS AND FAUNAS. 
We have lately received two works of 
this class; one relating to that inte- 
resting region, the Island of Arran ; 
the other to the vicinity of Hudders- 
field. Dr. Bryce, who has devoted con- 
siderable time to the production of the 
volume on Arran, has made the founda- 
tion of the work Geological. The first 
sixty pages may he considered as pre- 
fatory matter, as they refer to Clydes- 
dale and Bute. 
The Geology of Arran commences at 
p. 61, and, interspersed with descrip- 
tions of scenery, is continued to p. 155. 
The Flora of Arran follows the Ge- 
ology, and occupies seventeen pages. 
To the Marine Zoology thirty-five 
pages are devoted, and two to the 
Entomology of the Island. Owing to 
the excessive brevity of the notices of 
insects, we must refrain from criticising 
the entomological portion of the work. 
As plants grow on the soil, and as 
insects feed on plants, it is evident 
that first Geology, then Botany, and 
then Entomology, is the proper order 
in which these three kindred studies 
should be treated, and the entomologist 
would feel that were either the botani- 
cal or geological section of the volume 
omitted, something would be wanting 
to enable him to elaborate theoretically 
the insect inhabitants of the locality. 
We feel convinced that, with the addi- 
tion of some fuller information on the 
climate, had the list of plants been 
complete, an entomologist might have 
taken up this volume, and have worked 
out a list of the insects which should 
occur in the Island, and the list so 
constructed would have been as correct 
as nine-tenths of the lists compiled for 
insertion in similar local publications. 
But unfortunately the list of plants com- 
prises only the rarer plants of Arran, 
and therefore the omission of any spe- 
cies in the list gives us no informa- 
tion, — it may be excessively abundant 
or entirely wanting. 
Most of the common plants of Arran 
— the plants of the field, the roadside 
and the marsh — are common to it and 
the Western Lowlands of Scotland, but 
several of the Highland plants occur 
on the higher granite mountains, which 
occupy so conspicuous a position in 
the Northern part of the Island. 
Again, there are a few plants found 
in Arran almost peculiar to the Western 
Coast and to the Hebridean chain of 
Islands. 
But, to quote the words of the 
author, “the most curious feature in 
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