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THIS is a bright and amusing account of a number of natural structures and problems. The economy of aphides, shrikes, earwigs, wasps, gnats, spiders and Hessian flies, of the Alpine Soldanella, clover, gorse, and water-weeds in winter is described in lively words and illustrated by figures, which are often both attractive and novel. The drawings of the earwig and Hessian fly are well worth the attention of professed naturalists; those of the gnat contain some small errors. Mr. Grant Allen has banished nearly every one of the technical terms which impede unlearned readers. In this he has done well, though we think that a technical name here and there in a footnote might have guided some few readers to fuller information.
Flashlights on Nature.
By Grant Allen. With 150 illustrations by Frederick Enock. Pp. viii + 312. (London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1899.)
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M., L. Flashlights on Nature. Nature 59, 268 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059268a0
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