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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
The Ivish Naturalist (Vol. XX., No. 7) contains a paper on ‘ The 
British Utricularie,’ by Mr. G. C. Druce. 
British Birds (Vol. V., No. 2), contains a memoir on the late Robert 
Service, which is accompanied by a portrait. 
The Animal's Friend (G. Bell & Sons, 2d. monthly) has been sent 
to us. It contains many illustrations, stories relating to Pets, etc. 
Prof. W. W. Watts’ Presidential Address to the Geological Society, on 
“Geology as Geographical Evolution’ is printed in the Society’s Quarterly 
Journal (No. 266). 
Mr. W, N. Cheesman, F.L.S., favours us with a reprint of his ‘ Contribu- 
tion to the Mycologic Flora and the Mycetozoa of the Rocky Mountains,’ 
from the Tyvansactions of the British Mycological Society. 
Part 36 of Hayvmsworth’s Natural History (7d.) deals with marine 
life in its various interesting forms, and contains the best illustrations we 
have yet seen in this publication. The sea~anemones, etc., are particularly 
well represented. 
In The Zoologist (No. 842), Capt. Stanley S. Flower gives an account 
of his visit to various European Zoological Gardens and Natural History 
Museums. There is a favourable notice of’the Brighton Aquarium, and 
the Halifax ‘ Zoo,’ of which latter two illustrations are given. 
In the Geological Magazine (No. 565) Dr. Henry Woodward figures a 
specimen of Evyon richavdsoni from Dumbleton Hill, Gloucestershire. 
Mr. R. C. Burton has also a note on the ‘ Occurrence of Beds of the Yellow 
Sands and Marl in the Magnesian Limestone of Durham.’ 
In Man (Vol. XI1., No. 9), Dr. Duckworth and Mr. L. R. Shore give a 
“Report on Human Crania from Peat deposits in England.’ These are 
from Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. The col- 
lection shews a very great diversity of cranial form. 
Hull Museum Publications (No. 78), being the Thirty-seventh Quarterly 
Record of Additions (40 pp. A. Brown & Sons, one penny), has illustrated 
notes on a bronze dagger from Lincoln, Undescribed Yorkshire Tokens, 
a slavery jug, Chippendale chairs, a fifteenth century sword, old ironwork, 
old Hull whaling ships and steamships, etc. 
Mr. W. C. Simmons has an interesting note on ‘ The Granite Mass of 
Foxdale, Isle of Man ; with some notes of Dendritic Markings in Micro- 
granite Dykes,’ in the Geological Magazine for August. Apparently one of 
the first references to this granite mass was in The Naturalist for 1894. 
In the same magazine Dr. H. Woodward describes a carapace of a crusta- 
cean from the ironstone nodules of Sparth Bottoms, Lancashire, under the 
name of Anthrapalemon grossarti=russellianus var, holti. 
In British Birds for August, an Alpine Ring Ouzel, ‘ seen in the flesh ’ 
in Sussex, is described as a New British Bird. In view of past events, we 
are inclined to agree with the author that this occurrence, ‘ for the first 
time on record in Great Britain, is scarcely surprising.’ In the same 
journal, another writer regrets that a peculiarity in the feathers of the 
Water Rail, which he recently described as a new observation, was pointed 
out by a Rev. Bird in the Norfolk Society’s Transactions, so long ago as 
1895. 
In Knowledge (No. 516), is a profusely illustrated article by Dr, Graden- 
witz dealing with the fine series of gigantic models which Carl Hagenbeck, 
of Hamburgh, has set up in his park. One immense lizard is shown preying 
upon another, while a group of Saurians, resembling caricatures of the 
rhinoceros, are shown disporting themselves in the water; the whole 
effect in all cases being heightened by the natural surroundings in which 
the models are placed. In the same journal Prof, F. Cavers writes on the 
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