... : is now 50 years old and to celebrate this Jubilee eleven experts have contributed a series of chapters on the different aspects of the Trust's work. These chapters, together with an introduc tion by Dr. G. M. Trevelyan and over 100 superb photographs, have been woven into a Batsford Book. This is a record of Britain's heritage together with a map of England showing where these precious spots ...

... . Mr. Kenneth M. Smith, F.R.S., has written for the practical grower and the student. He tells how the common virus diseases (and they become more common every day) can be recognised, and he gives the control measure when available. Some knowledge of these diseases, how they are spread and how they can be guarded against or checked has now become all important to the farmer, market gardener ...

... , which also contams the resume oi the 1944-45 season, reports a verj large increase in the number ol registrations. For the year ending in June, 1945, registrations were only 10 short of 10,000. The number of litters, too, entered in Vol. 64, is 1,576, an increase of 224 over the preceding year. The stud book is compiled by Sydney H. Dalton dan published by the National Coursing Club at 11, ...

... .- For the mountain lover this book will give great pleasure, for the photographer great interest, and for those who combine these two pastimes the book will be truly fascinating. Mr. Cyril Douglas Milner is both an authority on mountains and on photography and in this book he has gathered illustrations from the best work of men of many nationalities and he explains how the perfect mountain ...

... A report of an inquiry organised by Viscount Astor and B. Seebohm Rowntree This report, as it turns out, is an attack on the National Farmers' Union and a number of other very influential bodies, including the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the Council of Agriculture. The attack is on the policy, not the honesty, of those who think that the basis of agriculture in this country must ...

... (Leaflet No. 117, Ministry of Agriculture, Stormont, Belfast). Very large quan tities of seed potatoes are now being grown in Northern Ireland and an even greater demand is expected when seed can be certified as being free from eelworm. This leaflet has some remarkably good pictures of eelworm cysts on potato roots taken by the Long Ashton Research Station at Bristol. The eelworm pest develops ...

... . inis nuge tract or central Am nca is indeed unknown had it een better known, Mr. Mervyn G. Palmer surely would never have attempted to cross it from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean ,vith only £20 as his whole fortune. As a result of this trip many ani tals, etc., hitherto unknown to sci nee, will be seen bearing Mr. Palmer's name in the British and >ther museums. It was a one-man colect- ...

... , by James Aid ridge (.Macnaei josepn, ss. oa.;. nese many incidents of the war are held together by a mere thread but each story is so vivid and real that it might be carved out of stone. ...