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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
The Lesser Shrew is thought to be much more common in Yorkshire 
than usually recorded.—Zoologist, No. 841. 
Records of the Pied Flycatcher in Warwickshire and Northampton- 
shire appear in The Zoologist (No. 840). 
The Journal of the Board of Agriculture for July contains an illustrated 
note on Blister Canker (Nummularia discreta) of apple tree. 
Mr. E. G. Bayford writes on ‘ Electric Light as an attraction for beetles 
and other insects,’ in The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for July. 
No. 1 of Vol. V. of British Birds is chiefly occupied by a report ‘ On 
the Distribution of the Nightingale during the Breeding Season in Great 
Britain,’ 
Mr. F. H. Butler has‘a paper on ‘ The Natural History of Kaolinite,’ 
in The Mineralogical Magazine, No. 73. In this he describes a specimen 
of fine-grained Kinder Scout Grit from Bamford Edge, Derbyshire. 
We learn from ‘ Pegasus,’ a Bradford High School Journal, that when 
a class of girls was asked ‘What do the monsoons do with their moisture 
when they come to the Western Ghats ? ’ one opined—‘ drop it and run.’ 
Mr. W. Hill’s Presidential Address to the Geologists’ Association ap- 
pears in the Society’s Proceedings, Vol. XXII., part 2. It is entitled ‘ Flint 
and Chert,’ and appeals particularly to geologists in the north of England. 
It contains illustrations of Chert from Reeth, etc. 
Mr. T. A. Chapman, writing in The Entomologist’s Record (Vol. XXIII., 
No. 4), opines that the sooner we adopt the word ‘ Lepidopterology,’ the 
better. Presumably we shall soon have ‘ Coleopterology,’ “ Neuroptero- 
logy,’ ‘ Dipterology,’ ‘ Hymenoptera-Aculeataology,’ etc. 
In British Birds for July, it is recorded that a female Wood Wren, 
caught by Mr. J. D. Pallerson at Goatiland in 1910, while sitting in her 
nest with six young ones, and ringed by him, was again caught upon her 
nest this year, within eighty yards of last year’s site, and re-marked. 
After doubting the record of the Spotted Sandpiper in Yorkshire (see 
The Naturalist, Feb. 1911, pp. 100-101, and Hull Museum Publication 
No. 77, pp. 3-4), the editor of British Birds now admits that ‘ there can 
be no reasonable doubt that the bird was in fact shot at or near Hebdeu 
Bridge about 1899.’ 
In The Annals of Scottish Natuval History (No. 78), Mr. W. Eagle 
Clarke records Blyth’s Reed-Warbler at Fair Isle, an addition to the 
British Avifauna; and the occurrence of Temminck’s Grasshopper- 
Warbler in Orkney. This species has only been recorded for Western 
Europe twice previously, viz., at North Cotes, Lincolnshire, in November 
1909, and at Heligoland, in October of the same year. 
Mr. H. Ling. Roth’s paper, read at Halifax recently, ‘On the Use and 
Display of Anthropological collections in Museums,’ appears in The 
Museums Journal (Vol. X., No. 10). Mr. W. B. Crump’s paper on ‘A 
New Method of Illustrating British Vegetation in Museums,’ appears as 
the following issue of the same journal, as does also Mr. H. P. Kendall's 
paper on ‘ The Collection of Local Views for Museums.’ 
Writing to The Entomologist (No. 577) in reference to the small prices 
realized for the named varieties of lepidoptera formerly owned by the 
late J. W. Tutt, Mr. G. T. Porritt points out the obvious reason. With 
the exception of perhaps half-a-dozen interested British lepidopterists, 
no one uses many of the varietal names, nor cares anything about them. 
In some cases a varietal name is necessary, ‘ but that a slight shade of 
colour, an extra spot, or the widening or contracting of a band, should 
entail the special naming of forms differing so slightly from the type is 
absurd. The craze for such name-making has caused a good deal of 
ridicule.’ 
Naturalist, 
