Science Gossip . Aeschnagrandis. Ovipositing. (Bjitish Dragoiijlies.) also full instructions with regard to terminology andidentification. The main body of the work is occu-pied by careful description of genera and subject-matter is arranged on uniform plan underthe headings of {a) synonymy, (*) original descriptionin nomenclators own language, (<) size, (a) male imago, (e) female imago, (f) immature colour, (g)variation, (h) nymph, (i) date, (/;) habits, and (/) dis-tribution. Chapter VIII. is occupied by suggestionsfor breeding thenymph, and thefollowing or lastchapter withuse
Science Gossip . Aeschnagrandis. Ovipositing. (Bjitish Dragoiijlies.) also full instructions with regard to terminology andidentification. The main body of the work is occu-pied by careful description of genera and subject-matter is arranged on uniform plan underthe headings of {a) synonymy, (*) original descriptionin nomenclators own language, (<) size, (a) male imago, (e) female imago, (f) immature colour, (g)variation, (h) nymph, (i) date, (/;) habits, and (/) dis-tribution. Chapter VIII. is occupied by suggestionsfor breeding thenymph, and thefollowing or lastchapter withuseful instruc-tions for thecapture of dra-gonflies and pre-paration for thecabinet. Al-though a some-what costlybook, no reallyearnest entomo-logist can affordto be withoutthe new workon BritishDragonflies byMr. Lucas. Bypermission ofMr. Upcott Gillwe reproducetwo of thesmaller METHOD OF SETTING DRAGONFLY. {British Drag07ifties.) The Natural History of Selborne. By GilbertWhite, edited with notes by Grant Allen, xi. + 528pp., loin, x 7in., with 180 illustrations by EdmundH. New, and two portraits. (London and New York :John Lane, 1900.) net. We have already had the pleasure of noticing someof the earlier parts of this work, in which form it ap-peared (Science-Gossip, New Series, ante p. 21),and, now that it is completed in book-form, we areglad to find the high standard of production pro-jected by the publisher has been fully a whole, this edition of Whites Selborne can-not fail to gladden the hearts of book collectors andthe more cultured bibliophiles, always in search ofthe beautiful in book form. Printed with old styletype on rough edged paper, and illustrated in quaint style of drawing, this ponderous volumeis indeed a handsome addition to a library. Aseditor, the late Grant Allen has largely confined him-self to certain popul
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