(1) The Natural History of the Farm: A Guide to the Practical Study of the Sources of Our Living in Wild Nature (2) Investigation into the Disease of Sheep called “Scrapie” (Traberkrankheit; La Tremblante): With Especial Reference to its Association with Sarcosporidiosis (3) Die Typen der Bodenbildung, ihre Klassifikation und geographische Verbreitung

Abstract

(1) PROF. NEEDHAM'S “Natural History of the Farm” is one of those books that could only be written in America, where individuality of outlook is allowed, not only to a professor of limnology, but to all who are engaged in doing anything with agricultural students. For it is recognised that the methods must not become stereotyped and that every teacher should have his own way of doing things. This book is a combination of natural history and nature-study, with much fluent writing about the joy of communing with nature and the things that really count in life; the chapters are ushered in with quotations from Robert Burns, Ecclesiastes, Whittier, Micah, etc., and along with the fluent writing is set a practical exercise. Anyone who knows the American student, with his (and especially her) capacity for taking things seriously, will realise that a book of this kind will get its chance, and that the intention of the author will be duly respected. His aim is not so much to teach as to arouse such interest in country life that men and women shall remain in the country and not migrate to the town. We have the same problem ourselves, and may yet have to deal with it in the same manner.

(1) The Natural History of the Farm: A Guide to the Practical Study of the Sources of Our Living in Wild Nature.

By Prof. J. G. Needham. Pp. 348. (Ithaca: The Comstock Publishing Co., 1913.) Price 1.50 dollars.

(2) Investigation into the Disease of Sheep called Scrapie (Traberkrankheit; La Tremblante): With Especial Reference to its Association with Sarcosporidiosis.

By Dr. J. P. M'Gowan. With an Appendix on a Case of Johne's Disease in the Sheep. (Edinburgh and East of Scot land College of Agriculture.) Pp. ix + 116. (Edinburgh: Wm. Blackwood and Sons, 1914.)

(3) Die Typen der Bodenbildung, ihre Klassifikation und geographische Verbreitung.

By Prof. K. Glinka. Pp. iv + 365. (Berlin: G. Borntraeger, 1914.) Price 16 marks.