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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES, etc. 
The Zoologist for October contains some short notes on Yorkshire 
birds and insects. 
Dr. E. J. Russell writes on ‘ Chalking : a useful Improvement for Clays 
Overlying the Chalk’ in The Journal of the Board of Agriculture for October. 
Dr. J. A. Clubb writes on ‘ The Educative Value in Public Museums 
of Introductory Cases to Animal Groups’ in The Museums Journal for 
November. : 
The Animal World for November contains the following short 
papers :—‘ Newts,’ by Edward Step; ‘Sea-Birds: The Poetry of Flight,’ 
by F. G, Aflalo; and ‘Animals that break themselves up,’ by C. F. 
Newall. 
In The Entomologist for November, Mr. J. W. H. Harrison writes 
‘Concerning Certain Cynipid Galls in Durham, Northumberland and 
North Yorkshire,’ and Mr. W. G. Clutten records Evebia blandina and 
Laventia flavicinctata at Grassington. 
A Punch joke :—Private Brown, (inspecting mud on tyre): ‘ You 
must have had a wonderfully interesting ride. I see you’ve been in the 
Lower Silurian, Old Red Sandstone, Crystallite and Metamorphic dis- 
tricts.”’ We presume that ‘ Crystallite ’ is the joke ? 
Wild Life for September contains papers on ‘ The Peregrine Falcon,’ 
by Rev. D. A. Scott; ‘The Storm Petrel and Manx Shearwater,’ by 
A, Whitaker and T. M. Fowler; ‘Some New Facts about the Nightjar,’ 
by A. M. C. Nicholl; ‘Sexual Selection in Birds,’ by Edmund Selous. 
We have received the Annual Report of the Scottish Marine Biological 
Station for 1915. It is well written, well printed and well illustrated. 
It contains 50 pages and is an excellent record of a good year’s work at 
Millport. It would be still more interesting if all the illustrations were 
described, common objects though some of them are. 
In The Journal of Conchology for October, Mr. B. R. Lucas states 
that a good mixture to prevent the objectionable fungoid growth in 
improperly cleaned land-shells consists of linseed oil, 10 per cent. ; benzol, 
go per cent., and 2 grammes of thymol crystals. The proportion o1 
linseed oil can be reduced for small spinous shells, and increased to give 
lustre to big shells. 
Mr. G. C. Crick has made a critical study of the specimen from Settle, 
described as Gontatites vesiculifer by Dr. Hind, in the Proceedings of the 
Yorkshire Geological Society. His paper is printed in Vol. XII., part 1, 
of the Proceedings of the Malacological Society. He concludes that the 
English fossil is certainly very near to, and probably identical with, 
De Koenick’s species. 
The Proceedings of the Coventry Natural History and Scientific Society 
for the year ending March, 1916 (30 pages), contains a useful illustrated 
summary of the field meetings and lectures during the year. It is edited 
by Mr. H. J. Wheldon, and is sold at the very low price of 6d. A year 
earlier, the first part of this Society’s publication appeared, containing a 
record of its work from the Society’s inauguration in 1go09g, to 1915. 
We have received Hull Museum Publications No. 106 (Quarterly Record 
of Additions, No. LII.), by T. Sheppard, M.Sc., 24 pp., illustrated, price 
one penny (Hull: A. Brown & Sons, Ltd.). The items include :—Sixteenth 
Century Powder Horn; Rare Type of Tinder Box; Musketry Fuse 
Holder ; Iron Nutcrackers ; Rare Type of Powder Tester ; Two Hitherto 
unknown Seventeenth Century Tokens of Halifax ; Antarctic Photographs 
for the Pickering Museum ; French and German War Trophies; Recent 
additions to Collections ; Staffordshire Pottery; The Little Walshingam 
Font; The Old Hull Whaler ‘ Truelove’; The Yacht ‘ Queen of Eng- 
land’; Turner’s Pictures of Hull in the Wilberforce Museum, The last 
item is written by Mr. H. E. Wroot. 


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