. Science-gossip . me that of J. B. Hodgkinson, late of these men vrere excellent practical entomolo-gists, repute had extended to all partsof the world where English entomology is Hodgkinson died in February last. ! was sixty-seven, and ]\Ir. Hodgkinsonseventy-four 3-ears old. The illustrated supplement of the Paris PetitJournal, newspaper is beheved to have thelargest circulation in the world, has latterh- givenmuch attention to popular natural history. Thishas taken the form of full-page coloured illustra-ticns of good and bad fungi, otherv
. Science-gossip . me that of J. B. Hodgkinson, late of these men vrere excellent practical entomolo-gists, repute had extended to all partsof the world where English entomology is Hodgkinson died in February last. ! was sixty-seven, and ]\Ir. Hodgkinsonseventy-four 3-ears old. The illustrated supplement of the Paris PetitJournal, newspaper is beheved to have thelargest circulation in the world, has latterh- givenmuch attention to popular natural history. Thishas taken the form of full-page coloured illustra-ticns of good and bad fungi, othervdse poisonousand edible ; Birds useful to man, is an importantseries of portraits of native birds to bepreser%-ed in France; Venomous and HarmlessReptiles of France is another series, and atpresent the poisonous plants of Western Europeare being illustrated. Such a series would domuch good in Britain if produced at the sameprice, xiz., one halfpennv per number, and aseffectivelv coloured. SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 313. CONTRIBUTED BY FLORA WINSTOXE. La Naturaleza (Madrid, Nos. i to 7, vol. viii.,from January Sth to March Sth, 1897.) January 8thcontains an article on the new Equatorial Telescope,made in Berlin, for the Observatory of Grunewald,with illustration. The report of the Congress onthe Anthropology of Criminality is concluded,giving papers on this subject, of Herr van Hamel,Dimitri Drill and Professor Lombroso. Vidal y Careta continues his notes onthe Races of Men who have successively inhabitedCuba, and there is a further article on TheStudy of the Movements and Revolutions ofPlanets, by Don Manuel G. Vidal.—The numberfor January iSth has a series of lengthy notes onThe Cultivation of Vines, by Don RicardoBecerro de Bengoa, the Director of the magazine;Dr. F. Vidal y Careta and Don M. G. Vidalcontinue their articles above mentioned. FebruarySth contains an article on The Perils ofAcetylene, by an anonymous writer, also thecontinuation of The Problem of Long
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