THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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A Postal Guide. — ‘The British Postal 
Guide,’ which was promised by the Post- 
master-General in his annual report, has 
just been issued. It contains about 130 
pages of closely-printed matter, and is to 
be sold to the public for sixpence at the 
various post-offices. It contains full in- 
formation about the inland and foreign 
postage on letters, newspapers and books, 
and also respecting money-orders and the 
registration of letters, with the days when 
foreign mails are made up and due; 
valuable suggestions about directing, 
sealing and posting letters, and preferring 
complaints to the chief office ; a list of the 
post-offices and money-order offices in the 
United Kingdom, and of nearly 10,000 
places abroad, with the means of ascer- 
taining the mails by which letters for the 
latter are sent ; the hours for posting and 
delivering letters in the metropolitan dis- 
trict; a list of the letter-receiving houses 
in London and its vicinity, with the 
nearest money-order offices to the villages 
around London ; the various fees to be 
paid for posting letters after time ; and a 
list of provincial towns to and from which 
there is a double daily postal communi- 
cation with the metropolis. To show the 
necessity of properly directing letters, it 
is stated in the ‘Guide’ that letters for 
Belgravia have been sent to Belgrade, 
through want of care in directing them. — 
Civil Service Gazette. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
A Natural Historv of the Animal 
Kingdom. By W. S. Dallas, F.L.S. 
London: Houlston & Stoneman, 65, 
Paternoster Row ; W. S. Orr & Co., 
Amen Corner. 
This octavo volume of 800 pages is, as 
we are informed in the Preface, a reprint 
in a complete form of a portion of the 
second and third volumes of Organic 
Nature, in Orr’s ‘ Circle of the 
Sciences,’ so that those who possess that 
work are already in possession of this 
volume. 
To embrace the entire animal king- 
dom in a moderate sized volume, to pre- 
sent at the same time a clear, intelligible 
and compendious view of the subject, to 
give a “systematic and popular descrip- 
tion of the habits, structure and classiti- 
cation of animals from the lowest to the 
highest forms,” is by no means an easy 
task. 
Unfortunately the space allotted to the 
Insecta in this volume is very limited, 
but eighty pages ; however, in this space 
as much information is given as could 
very well be compressed within it. To 
the birds 230 pages are allotted, and to 
the Mammalia 130, and, after all, these 
are the groups to which the minds of the 
many turn when animals are talked of, 
and on this account we have no doubt 
that the bulk of the purchasers will be 
well satisfied to find that the groups to 
which they attach most interest, though 
placed at the end of the volume, have 
received the lion’s share of the author’s 
attention. 
Those who want a cheap general view 
of the animal kingdom will probably 
find this volume answer their purpose. 
It has a showy exterior, and a frontis- 
piece printed in colours, whereby to 
attract the attention of the multitude, 
that multitude which cannot judge of the 
scientific merits of the volume, and 
needs some direct appeal to the senses. 
A New Flora of the Neighbourhood 
of Reigate. By J. A. Brewer, F.L.S. 
Price 5s. William Pamplin, -15, Frith 
Street, Soho. 
In these days when the study of Ento- 
mological Botany is making such vast 
strides, and is causing the energy of the 
