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carried out as a-kind of relaxation and change whilst studying 
other groups. I feel sure that steady work on the coast, 
particularly in the denes which cut through the Magnesian 
Limestone and in the country west of Wolsingham and Lan- 
chester, will reveal the occurrence of many rare and novel 
forms. This work I intend to carry out as opportunity offers 
and hope thus materially to extend this preliminary statement 
of the Durham Rose Flora. 


7 Ons 
British Birds for November contains an excellent portrait of the late 
Rk. M. Barrington. 
Notes on ‘ New and Little-known British Aphides,’ by F. V. Theobald, 
occur in The Entomologist for November. 
The Ivish Naturalist for November is nearly entirely occupied by a 
memoir on the late Richard Manliffe Barrington. 
The Quarterly Notes of the Belfast Museum, No. 30, being publication 
No. 51 (13 pages), are devoted to ‘ An Introduction to the Study of Birds’ 
Eges’ (illustrated). 
The Scottish Naturalist for November contains ‘Some Observations 
and Deductions regarding the Habits and Biology of the Common Wasp,’ 
by Dr. James Ritchie. 
In The Entomologist for October Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker points out 
that Mr. Rowland Brown says that he (Mr. Bethune-Baker) retains Thecla 
@sculi as a local form of z/icis, whereas he informs us that he has not seen 
a specimen of @sculi. Mr. Rowland Brown says that he was evidently 
mistaken, 
In The Lancashive and Cheshive Naturalist, No. 90, Mr. J. A. Wheldon 
figures and describes ‘A New British Lichen from the Isle of Man,’ and 
gives it the name of Acroccrdia monensts sp. nov. He also describes and 
figures what ‘should probably be cited as Bidens ceynuus Linn. var. d?s- 
cotdeus Cand. f. minima Williams.’ 
In Knowledge for October, Mr. A. R. Horwood writes on ‘ The Flower 
Table and its Educational Value.’ It appears that the Leicester Museum 
now has wild flower exhibitions arranged scientifically. Brighton is said 
to be one of the first museums in England to exhibit wild flowers, pre- 
sumably Leicester is one of the last. 
In The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for October, a specimen of 
Rhantus exoletus Forst, var. nigriventris nos, taken at Askham Bog in 1895, 
is recorded as new to the British list; Meligethes byevis Sturm, is recorded 
for Durham; Carabus arvensis in the West Riding, Emmelesia minorata, 
from Grassington, new to Yorkshire, etc. 
In British Birds for October is an article on ‘ “‘ Wait and See ’’ Photo- 
graphy’ by E. L. Turner. This variety is accomplished by sitting inside 
atentallday. The paper is illustrated by many interesting photographs. 
Eric B. Dunlop writes ‘On Incubation.’ There is also an illustration of 
the Eastern Black-eared Wheatear seen on the Cleveland Hills, York- 
shire, on June 6th, 1915. 
In The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine Mr. Norman H. Joy points 
out that a species which he has described as Gabrius primigenius Joy, 
was previously named G. velox by Sharp. ‘ G. primigenius Joy, is there- 
fore a synonym of G. velow.’ There has also been a mistake with regard 
to an illustration. We may be mistaken, but it certainly seems to us, in 
view of these frequent ‘corrections,’ that some of our entomological 
friends are much too Sharp in describing new species, and the result can 
only be that one’s Joy will be turned to Sorrow ! 

1916 Jan, 1. 
