. Science-gossip . ng for these quaint rest of the articles in this number are good,and helpful to amateur photographers. Tourist Guide to the Continent. Edited by PercyLindley. 163 pp. Svo. Seventh .nual Edition,illustrated, and with maps. (London: GreatEastern Railway Company, 1896.) Price 6d. A prettily illustrated, useful guide, full of just thekind of first information an intending tourist inEurope requires. Although doubtless issued as anadvertisement for the Great Eastern Railway Com-pany, this guide so little partakes of that characteras to constitute itself well worth its
. Science-gossip . ng for these quaint rest of the articles in this number are good,and helpful to amateur photographers. Tourist Guide to the Continent. Edited by PercyLindley. 163 pp. Svo. Seventh .nual Edition,illustrated, and with maps. (London: GreatEastern Railway Company, 1896.) Price 6d. A prettily illustrated, useful guide, full of just thekind of first information an intending tourist inEurope requires. Although doubtless issued as anadvertisement for the Great Eastern Railway Com-pany, this guide so little partakes of that characteras to constitute itself well worth its price. Insects and Spiders. By J. W. Tutt, pp. Svo, illustrated by xviii. plates. (London :George Gill and Sons, 1S06). Price is. This little book contains fifteen lessons on Ento-mology and Spiders, which are illustrated bycommon or easily attainable examples. The bookis Part ii. of Gills Practical Series of Object LessonBooks, that has been called forth by the newSchool Board code. 134 The meeting of the British Association atLiverpool, just concluded, seems to have been anunqualified success. Some 3,000 people becameticket-holders on the occasion. Liverpool was fortunate in having so importanta personage as the Earl of Derby for its LordZNIayor for the year of the British Associationmeeting. His wealth and position in themselveslend aid to both the City and Association. The subject of the inaugural address by SirJoseph Lister, Bart., , was happily chosenfrom the popular point of view. He discussed thebenefits conferred upon the human race by someapplications of science, and pointed out howsuffering humanity had been alleviated by suchdiscoveries. The greatest among scientific discoveries whichhave aided the medical faculty have been the workof men of science apart from the professions ofsurgery and physic. For instance, the discoverersof anaesthetics, bacteriology and its bearing uponhuman suffering, also, most recently, the Rontgenrays, the
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