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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
The Journal of the Board of Agriculture for April contains a report 
on ‘ Medicinal Plants in England.’ 
Byitish Birds for May contains records of a white tailed eagle and 
rough legged buzzards in Lincolnshire. 
The Entomologist’s Record for April contains a paper on ‘ British 
Races of Butterflies,’ by Dr. R. Verity. 
The Zoologist for May includes some notes on Yorkshire Birds, in- 
cluding the Stonechat, Redshank, Swift, Woodcock, etc. 
In The Scottish Natuvalist for May, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck writes 
on ‘ Easterness: the vice county and its Molluscan Fauna.’ 
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries for April contains a well-illustrated 
article on Roman remains at Saltersford, near Grantham, by Henry 
Preston. 
Among the Leaflets recently published by the Board of Agriculture and 
Fisheries, we notice No. 57, which deals with the use of Sulphate of 
Ammoniaas Manure; No. 58, White Mustard, and 80, the use of artificial 
Manures. 
Mr. F. A. Lucas’s brief report on ‘ British Neuroptera in 1915,’ which 
includes a few Yorkshire and Lancashire records, appears in The En- 
tomologist for May. A further instalment of Mr. Claude Morley’s ‘ Notes 
on Braconidz’ includes Northern records. 
The Micrologist, Vol. III., part 2, contains articles on a method 
for grinding rock, bone, teeth, etc., by Charles Cottam; The Polyzoa, by 
H. E. Hurrell; and the Fairy Shrimp. There are several excellent illus- 
trations. The Publication is sold by Messrs. Flatters, Milbourne & Mc- 
Kechnie, Ltd., price Is. 6d. 
The Eighth Annual Report issued by the National Museum of Wales, 
contains the following interesting items:— ‘to specimens £2393, to 
Library £709, purchases from the Pyke Thompson Fund £333,’ and numer- 
ous similar items which show that our friends in Wales are not stinting 
their National Museum, which is not built yet. 
In The Zoologist for April we notice there are papers on ‘ Birds seen 
during the Dardanelles’ Campaign,’ by Captain A. W. Boyd; ‘ The 
Mammals of Flanders,’ by Captain P. Gosse, and ‘A Diary of Ornitho- 
logical Observation made in Iceland during June and July, 1912,’ by 
Edmund Selous; as well as a number of bird notes for the Bradford 
district. 
Among the contents of the Journal of the Dervbyshive Archeological 
and Natural History Society, Vol. XXXVIII., we notice ‘ Plant Galls of 
Thorp and District,’ by H. J. Burkill: ‘ Roman Buxton,’ by E. Tristram ; 
‘ Wirksworth China,’ by T. S. Tudor; ‘Chellaston Alabaster,’ by Rev. 
R. L. Farmer; ‘ Zoological Notes,’ by W. Shipton; and ‘ Lepidoptera,’ 
by H. C. Hayward. 
Among the contents of The Lancashive and Cheshive Naturalist for 
March we notice a paper ‘On the Pupation of the Fox Moth,’ by George 
Bolam ; ‘ Belinurus lunatus from Sparth, Rochdale,’ by Mr. W. A. Parker ; 
‘Arthropods observed in 1915. IIIl.—Hymenoptera,’ by A. Randall 
Jackson. The April number contains a ‘ Report on False Scorpions and 
Woodlice,’ by R. Standen. 
The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, Vol. XXXI., 
Parts 1-4, I915, dated March 1916, and received on April 2oth, is a 
remarkably good number and well illustrated. Besides numerous articles 
on Nigeria, Venezuela, Japan, Ceylon, etc., Major H. G. Lyons’ presidential 
address to Section E (Geography), at the British Association meeting, 
is printed, as well as the president’s address to the Manchester Society, 
by Mr. H. Nuttall, M.P. 
Naturalist, 
