Bats

THIS book is full of information of value to those specializing in the study of bats; but it is written for the general reader. It seems scarcely possible that anyone except a bat-specialist would want to know so many details about bats, and the innumerable names of different species can mean almost nothing to those who have not made a special study of the group. The biologist with special interest in the Chiroptera will find this a really valuable book written by an enthusiast, but will probably skip the unnecessarily large part devoted to popular superstitions about the order. The same amount of space could more profitably have been devoted to classification, which is scarcely touched upon. Many of the photographs are good. A large and useful bibliography is given.BatsGlover MorrillAllenBy. Pp. x + 368 + 31 plates. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1939.) 17s. net.