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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



' Four Centuries of Legislation on Birds ' is tire title of a paper by 

 Mr. W. G. Clarke in the June Antiquary. 



In ' Notes on Thysanoptera {Tttbull/ei'a) new to the British Fauna ' 

 {Entom. Monthly Ma!^. for June), Mr. R. S. Bagnall describes Tricho- 

 thrips semiccBCus from Greatham, near Hartlepool. 



The Country Side's year-old child, Country Queries and Notes, has been 

 re-christened Science Gossip. The title may be the title of Science Gossip, 

 but the voice is the voice of Country Queries and Notes. 



Mr. Bernard Hobson writes an interesting and well illustrated article 

 ' With the International Congress in Mexico,' in the number of The 

 Journaj of the Manchester Geographical Society recently to hand. 



We learn from the Mitseitms Journal that Mr. Frederick Stubbs, of 

 Oldham, has been appointed to the restricted post of Curator in the Stepney 

 Borough Museum. He is to work under the direction of the Borough 

 Librarian, and be subordinate to that official. 



A child in a Lancashire school was asked what was meant by ' the 

 quick and the dead.' The answer was ' the quick is those who can get 

 out of the way of a motor car, and the dead is those that doesn't ! ' — York- 

 shire Ramblers' Club Journal. 



Mr. Percival Westell has turned spring poet, and in The Selborne Maga- 

 zine for April writes a poem, the first line of which is quite original : — 

 ' Hark ! to the joyous lark ! ' Probably his next poem will be ' Hark to 

 the Cuckoo ! ' 



The ' phrases ' of a Nightingale are given in a contemporary. One is 

 ' Scsososososososososo, czirhaying,' and another ' Sesesesesesesesesesesese, 

 coar o sze-oi.' The last one we heard giving forth ' phrases ' like that 

 ended up with ' rats ' ! 



In the New Phytologist for April, Mr. B. M. Griffiths describes two new 

 members of the Volvocaeeae (Pyraniiinonas delicatulus sp. n. and C/ilamy- 

 domonas sp. n (?) from near Kidderminster, and Mr. A. W. Bartlett writes 

 on ' An Abnormal gynoeceum in Stachys sylvatica Linn.' 



In the Quekett Club Journal for April, Messrs. E. Heron- Allen and 

 A. Earland have an important paper ' On a new species of TechniteUa 

 [T. thompsoni] from the North Sea, witir some observations upon selective 

 power as exercised by certain species of arenaceous foraminifera.' 



A writer in the February Zoologist records that a Great Bustard 

 was shot at Cloughton, near Scarborough, last Christmas, by Mr. Bennett, 

 who ' took it home, and had it cooked instead of Turkey for Christmas 

 dinner.' In the ' Zoologist ' for March, Mr. W. H. St. Ouintin points out 

 that the ' Great Bustard ' turns out to be a female Silver Pheasant. 



From the cover of The Country Side for May 8th we learn that ' It would 

 be an insult to the intelligence of our readers ' to fill pages ' with disserta- 

 tions upon such subjects as " How Plants Grow "' or " The Development 

 of the Frog." ' On opening the paper the first article is found to be 

 entitled ' How Birds Fly ' ! In the same issue of this journal, which 

 professes to advocate the protection of birds, etc., is an advertisement : — 

 ' Will any reader who can procure a clutch of fresh Nightingale eggs 

 communicate," etc. 



We notice the following modest statement in an article on Mendelism 

 in a contemporary. ' I have not read any of the work of the scientists 

 mentioned [Bateson, Punnet, Hurst] . . . but Mendelism seems to me 

 to be only an elaborate and precise enunciation of principles which I 

 have myself laid down in articles published at intervals during the last 

 twenty years. ... I see nothing in Mendelism which I have not been 

 saying for many years.' We need not say who the writer is ; only one man 

 would write it. And oddly enough iiis work does not receive the credit 

 he thinks it should by any of the " scientists ' quoted. In fact they do 

 not mention his name. 



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