Page:The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 2 (1898).djvu/551

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genera and species? Here a whole fauna is treated in the same manner. It is a purely technical work, embracing classification, differential enumeration, and nomenclature, and many a young English zoologist may find himself helped over several stiles by the possession of this small and not expensive book. The illustrations are very clear, while the course followed throughout reminds us of the method of a well-thumbed volume of our early days—Stephen's 'Manual of British Beetles.'

We sometimes meet with antedated books, but this bears the date of 1899.