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NATURE STUDY. 
Institute Notes. 
It fell to the lot of Section B, Entomology, and Section D, Or¬ 
nithology, to hold the last meeting of the passing century in the 
Institute rooms. With the beginning of the season’s work last 
autumn, these sections decided to unite, for a few months, in 
the study of vertebrate zoology, as a fitting preparation for the 
special work of the coming spring in the bird and insect world. 
The meetings have been well attended and a high degree of 
iuinrest has been manifested. The course of study began with 
a general view of the vertebrate type, after which a long leap 
was taken and the class Mammalia was studied with special 
reference to dentition and cranial development. This done, it 
was proposed to return to comparatively near the beginning 
and again work forward , so the last night of the Nineteenth 
Century found the sections in Entomology and Ornithology 
assembled for the study of the Fishes. 
New Books. 
Mushrooms, Edible and Poisonous, by George Francis Atkin¬ 
son, professor of botany in Cornell University, is the latest con¬ 
tribution to books on mushrooms. It describes more than two 
hundred species and is profusely illustrated. The arrangement 
of the text is scientific and keys enable one to find the different 
genera without difficulty. It is a valuable aid to the study of 
fungi. (Andrus & Church, Ithaca, N. Y.) 
Wilderness Ways, by William J. Long, is the second series of 
sketches of birds and beasts of which Ways of Wood Folks was 
the first. It is one of those refreshing books that one does not 
lay down till it is finished. The tales of wild life in the New 
Brunswick woods are different from most similar accounts and 
therein lies their attractiveness. (Ginn & Co., Boston.) 
