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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES, etc. 



The Zoologist for Octob.^r contains some short notes on Yorkshire 

 birds and insects. 



Dr. E. J. Russell writes on ' Chalking : a useful Improvement for Clays 

 Overlying the Chalk ' in The Journal of the Board of Agriculture for October. 



Dr. J. A. Clubb writes on ' The Educative Value in Public Museums 

 of Introductory Cases to Animal Groups ' in The Museums Journal for 

 November. 



The Animal World for November contains the following short 

 papers : — ' Newts,' by Edward Step ; ' Sea- Birds : The Poetry of Flight,' 

 by F. G. Aflalo ; and 'Animals that break themselves up,' by C. F. 

 Newall. 



In The Entomologist for November, ]\Ir. J. \V. H. Harrison writes 

 ' Concerning Certain Cynipid Galls in Durham, Northumberland and 

 North Yorkshire,' and Mr. W. G. Clutten records Erebia blandina and 

 Larentia flavicinctata at Grassington. 



A Punch joke : — -Private Brown, (inspecting mud on tyre) : ' You 

 must have had a wonderfully interesting ride. I see you've been in the 

 Lower Silurian, Old Red Sandstone, Crystallite and INIetamorphic dis- 

 tricts." We presume that ' Crystallite ' is the joke ? 



Wild Life for September contains papers on 'The Peregrine Falcon,' 

 by Rev. D. A. Scott; 'The Storm Petrel and Manx Shearwater,' bv 

 A. Whitaker and T. M. Fowler ; ' Some New Facts about the Nightjar,' 

 by A. M. C. NichoU ; ' Sexual Selection in Birds,' by Edmund Selous. 



We ha,ve received the Annual Report of the Scottish Marine Biological 

 Station for igi^f. It is well written, well printed and well illustrated. 

 It contains 50 pages and is an excellent record of a good year's work at 

 Millport. It would be still more interesting if all the illustrations were 

 described, common objects though some of them are. 



In The Journal of Conchology for October, Mr. B. R. Lucas states 

 that "a good mixture to prevent the objectionable fungoid growth in 

 improperly cleaned land-shells consists of linseed oil, 10 per cent. ; benzol, 

 go per cent., and 2 grammes of thymol crystals. The proportion 01 

 linseed oil can be reduced for small spinous shells, and increased to give 

 lustre to big shells. 



Mr. G. C. Crick has made a critical study of the specimen from Settle, 

 described as Goniatites vesiculifer by Dr. Hind, in the Proceedings of the 

 Yorkshire Geological Society. His paper is printed in Vol. XII., part i, 

 of the Proceedings of the Malacological Society. He concludes that the 

 English fossil is certainly very near to, and probably identical with, 

 De Koenick's species. 



The Proceedings of the Coventry Natural History and Scientific Society 

 for the year ending March, 1916 (30 pages), contains a useful illustrated 

 summary of the field meetings and lectures during the year. It is edited 

 by Mr. H. J. Wheldon, and is sold at the very low price of 6d. A year 

 earlier, the first part of this Society's publication appeared, containing a 

 record of its work from the Society's inauguration in 1909, to 1915. 



We have received //;<// MuseumPuhlications No. 106 (Quarterly Record 

 of Additions, No. LIT), by T. Sheppard, M.Sc, 24 pp., illustrated, price 

 one penny (Hull : A. Brown & Sons, Ltd.). The items include ; — Sixteenth 

 Century Powder Horn ; Rare Type of Tinder Box ; Musketry Fuse 

 Holder ; Iron Nutcrackers ; Rare Type of Powder Tester ; Two Hitherto 

 unknown Seventeenth Century Tokens of Halifax ; Antarctic Photographs 

 for the Pickering Museum ; French and German War Trophies ; Recent 

 additions to Collections ; Staffordshire Pottery ; The Little Walshingam 

 Font ; The Old Hull Whaler ' Truelove' ; The Yacht ' Queen of Eng- 

 land ' ; Turner's Pictures of Hull in the Wilberforce Museum. The last 

 item is written bv Mr. H. E. Wroot. 



