Abstract
THIS book, containing no less than 143 illustrations from photographs of animals and plants, written by experts in their several lines, is a remarkable production. Inevitably there must be compression, and the various chapters contain little more than brief descriptions and the more recognizable identification marks and habits of Britain's wild life. This, too, is necessarily unequal. While Miss Pitt tells us something about every one of our mammals, and Mr. Boulenger about our reptiles and amphibians, Mr. Seton Gordon cannot in thirty pages mention every British bird, or Mr. Bushby every one of several thousand insects.
Nature in Britain:
an Illustrated Survey. Introduced by Henry Williamson. With Contributions by R. St. Barbe Baker, E. G. Boulenger, L. C. Bushby, R. and E. Gathorne-Hardy, Seton Gordon and Frances Pitt. (The Pilgrims' Library, Vol. 3.) Pp. v + 250 + 97 plates. (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1936.) 5s. net.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
[Short Notices]. Nature 139, 455 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139455b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139455b0