86 The Field Naturalist's Quarterly Feb. 



Praeger ; Insect Oddities, by E. A. Butler ; Two Fashionable Furs, 

 by R. Lydekker ; Ornithological Notes, by Harry F. Witherby ; and 

 Microscopy and Astronomy, as above mentioned. 



The Avicultural Magazine always has some article of interest in 

 it, and the January issue is unusually good. Birds in Towns, by J. 

 Sergeant ; A Modern Noah, by Rev. C. Farrar ; and Mr Bonhote's 

 paper on Bahama Birds, will be read with pleasure and profit. The 

 coloured illustration of the same issue is the Yellow-Eyed Babbler, well 

 done as usual in this paper. 



The Naturalist, the North of England monthly journal, has now 

 come under the editorship of Mr T. Sheppard, F.G.S., and Mr T. W. 

 Woodhead, F.L.S. In their hands it will doubtless maintain its reputa- 

 tion. The January number has an article by W. G. Smith on Botanical 

 Survey for Local Naturalists' Societies, which contains sound advice for 

 such bodies ; while Mr George Massee contributes a paper on The 

 Modern Method of Studying Agarics. Many interesting items are 

 recorded in the Field Notes column of this journal. 



The Annals of Scottish Natural History, for January, has 

 some further notes by Mr Eagle Clarke on Some Interesting Birds at 

 Scottish Light-Stations ; the continuation of Mr Harvie-Brown's Avifauna 

 of the Outer Hebrides ; records of Insect Fauna of the Clova Moun- 

 tains (J. C. Willis and I. H. Burkill) ; and Prof. Trail's continued list 

 of Scottish Rubi. Mr Wm. Evans writes on the Sooty Shearwater in 

 the Firth of Forth, and there are a number of interesting Zoological 

 Notes as usual. 



The Naturalists' Journal is now issued under the title of 

 Nature-Study. This is a decidedly clever move on the part of those 

 responsible, as it expresses a sign of the times. The last issue deals 

 particularly with the objects and plan of the journal. 



Field Clubs and Societies. 



Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club. — The annual winter meeting for 

 the election of president and officers for the ensuing year was held in 

 the Woolhope Club-room on December 17th. Mr H. Southall, of The 

 Graig, Ross, was elected president for 1903. Four vice-presidents 

 elected were : Rev. Sir George Cornewall ; Rev. C. H. Binstead, of 

 Breinton ; Colonel J. A. Bradney, of Talycoed Court, Monmouth ; and 

 Mr G. W. Marshall, of Sarnesfield Court, Weobley. There was no 

 change in the constitution of the committee or other officers of the 

 club. Dr Gerald Leighton, who has recently left the neighbourhood, 

 was elected an honorary member of the club. The names of four 



