66 News from the Magazines. 
are illustrated from various parts of the country, and abroad. 
There are over 300 illustrations to the volume. Mr. Parkyn 
will find more information in reference to Yorkshire Chariot 
Burials in The Yorkshire Archeological Journal, part 76, 1907. 
‘ PREHISTORIC LONDON, ITs MOUNDS AND CIRCLES,’ is a 
somewhat remarkable book by E. O. Gorpon.* It is dedicated 
to Sir Melville and Lady Beachcroft, ‘ The latter the lineal 
descendant of Beli Mawr, King of All Britain and Wales, B.c. 
132.’ The author begins by telling us that “Ammeu Pob 
Anwybod,’ i.e., ‘ Everything Unknown is Doubted,’ which 
seems reasonable enough. Presumably Lady Beachcroft’s 
pedigree 7s known. As a frontispiece is a plan showing some 
hills around London viz. (a) Llandin (llan=sacred, din= 
eminence), this being Parliament Hill; (6) Penton (Pen= 
head, ton=sacred mound); (c) Bryn Gwyn (Bryn=hill, 
Gwyn=white or holy), where the Tower of London now is, 
and (d) Tothill (Tot=a sacred mound), Westminster. All 
this is probably new to most Londoners. The name London 
itself is the ‘ Llandin ’—welsh for High Place of Worship, or, 
if we wish to have an alternative derivation, we can have Llyn= 
the welsh for Lake. The author then takes us to the Isle of 
Man and shews us the Tynwald Hill; to Stonehenge and Sil- 
bury Hill, to Glastonbury, and, as we expected he would, to 
Wales, and we are told about the Gorsedd, the Eisteddfod, 
the Maen Logan, etc. And he ends up with ‘ Duw a Digon’ 
(God and Enough), to which we say Amen ! 

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In the Scottish Naturalist for January is an article by Miss L. H. Huie, 
on ‘ The Habits and Life History of Hylemyia grisea Fall; an Anthomyiid 
Fly new to the Scottish Fauna.’ 
We learn from Bird Notes and News that ‘ from the Spurn Lighthouse 
come records of the perches having been used this autumn by, among other 
other species, Larks, Wheatears, Blackbirds, Starlings, Chaffinches, Nor- 
wegian Crows, and a Merlin.’ 
Dr. F. Cavers writes on ‘ The Inter-Relationship of Protista and Primi- 
tive Fungi,’ in the December New Phytologist. This is one of the so- 
called ‘ double numbers,’ but as it contains only forty-eight pages and one 
plate, the price of 4s. seems quite sufficient. 
The Lancashive and Cheshive Naturalist for December contains papers 
on ‘Marram Grass and Dune Formation on the Lancashire Coast,’ by 
W. G. Travis; ‘ Derbyshire False-Scorpions,’ by R. Standen; ‘Gall 
Midges and Gall Mites at Grange-over-Sands,’ by. R. S. Bagnall, 
In The Zoologist for December, a letter dated March 25th, 1692-3, is 
quoted, as under: ‘ Thare is a great whale com a shore in lincornshire of 
a prodidous bigth so that a man of six feet hiy may stand uprite in his 
mouth & it is sold for a thousan pound.’ It is considered to have been 
either a Sperm or a Right Whale. 

* London: Elliott Stock, x. + 212 pages, Ios. 6d. net. 


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