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NEW BOOKS. 
Insects, Ticks, Mites and Venomous Animals of Medical and 
Veterinary Importance, Part I, Medical. By W. S. 
Patton and A. M. Evans. X+786 pp., 40 pis., 373 figs., 
8vo. Croydon, H. R. Grubb. 
This large, well illustrated and finely printed volume in- 
cludes a discussion of insects and other Arthropods in their 
relations to disease in man. The text is arranged in the 
form of lectures and laboratory exercises as presented to 
students in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The 
general arrangement of material is strictly adapted to this 
especial teaching purpose and a considerable amount of 
space is given up to laboratory directions and the descrip- 
tions of demonstration material. Nevertheless, there is a 
large amount of information which will be of great value to 
entomologists as well as to medical men, since as a whole 
the book forms a balanced compendium of medical entomol- 
ogy. The authors state that it is intended to supplant Patton 
and Gragg's Medical Entomology, published in 1904. C. T. B. 
Ants, Bees and Wasps. Sir John Lubbock. Edited and An- 
notated by J. G. Myers, XIX -{- 377 pp., Kegan Paul, 
Trench, Trubner & Co., London. E. P. Dutton & Co., 
New York, 10/6. 
This latest edition of Sir John Lubbock's widely known 
classic is enlarged by a long series of annotations by Dr. 
Myers. These extend over more than 100 pages and serve to 
augment, qualify or refute, in the light of more recent 
knowledge, parts of the original presentation which ap- 
peared nearly fifty years ago. C. T. B. 
