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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



In The Irish Naturalist Vol. 24, No. 10, Mr. C. B. Moffat writes on 

 ' Losses to a Local Flora,' and Mr. J. P. Burkitt has a ' Note on the 

 Long-eared Owl.' 



The December number of British Birds contains particulars of the re- 

 covery of marked birds, and a record of Leach's and Storm Petrels in 

 North Lancashire and Westmorland. 



Nature for November 22nd contains an abstract of Prof. W. G. Fearn- 

 side's Howard Lectures delivered before the Royal Society of Arts on 

 ' The Shortage of the Supply of Non- Phosphoric Iron Ore.' 



In The Entomologist, No. 653, Mr. W. G. Sheldon writes on ' Pevonea 

 cnstana : Its life-history. Habits of the Imago, Distribution of the various 

 named forms, and some speculations on the present trend of its variation ' ; 

 Mr. Claude Morley ' On the Proctotrypid Genus Gonatopus Ljunch ' ; 

 and Daphnis nerii is recorded for Derbyshire. 



Vol. III., No. 3 of The Vasculum contains a paper on ' The Order Pro- 

 tura,' by Mr. R. S. Bagnall ; ' The Erosion of Rocks,' by Dr. J. A. Smythe, 

 and ' Notes on the Winter of 19 16-7 in the Alston District,' by Mr. George 

 Bolam. Dr. J. W. H. Harrison writes on ' The Genera Orchis and Gym- 

 nadenia in Durham,' and there are the usual shorter notes. 



A recent number of British Birds contains ' Evidence for the Breeding 

 of the Green Sandpiper in Westmorland in 19 17.' To this the Editor 

 adds the following note : — ' Had one of the young birds been taken and 

 its skin preserved in some public museum lasting and incontrovertible 

 proof would have been afforded, and it seems to us a great pity that 

 the opportunity of obtaining such a proof was missed.' 



In The Entomologist's Magazine No. 641, Mr. R. S. Bagnall describes 

 ' Aylax rogenhoferi (Wachtl), A Cynipid (Hymenoptera) new to the 

 British Fauna,' from Durham. In the same number Mr. W. J. Fordham 

 records the black form of ' Silpha subrotundata Steph. in the Isle of Man ' ; 

 and Mr. R. Wilding notes 'Arena octavii Fauv. on the Lancashire 

 Coast.' Mr. Fordham also records 'Aylax taraxaci Ashm. in Derbyshire,' 

 and Mr. E. G. Bayford has a note on ' CannibaUsm in phytophagous 

 larvai when in confinement.' 



Wild Life for October contains illustrated articles on ' The Nesting of 

 the Landrail, with some Notes on the species' Distribution,' by Ralph 

 Chislett ; ' Some Notes on the Badger,' by Ion C. B. Jamieson ; ' The 

 Woodlark in North Devon,' by Owen Wynne ; ' Economic Ornithology, *' 

 by William Berry, as well as interesting records under the head of Corres- 

 pondence. There is also an obituary notice of the late 2nd Lieut. E. L. 

 \Vood, who was a native of Grimsby. 



The New Phytologist, Vol. XVI., Nos. 8 and 9, contains the following 

 items : — Ob.servations on the Influence of Aeration of the Nutrient 

 Solution in Water Culture Experiments, with some remarks on the Water 

 Culture Method, by W. Stiles and I. Jorgensen ; The Origin and Develop- 

 ment of the Compositne, by J. Small; The Endotrophic Mycorhiza of 

 Ericacea^, by J. Dufrenoy ; Note on Targionia hypophylla, by S. R 

 Kashyap ; ' Fossil Plants ' (Review), by D. H. S. ; On Some Criticisms 

 of the Osazone Method of Detecting Sugars in Plant Tissues, by S. 

 Mangham 



In Man for November, Mr. J. Reid Moir figures and describes a piece 

 of Yew from the Cromer forest bed. It is very bluntly obtuse at one 

 end, and the opposite end is flat, which, of course, ' appears to have been 

 produced by sawing.' The object is described as ' a piece of humanly 

 shaped wood,' but the evidence of such a definite statement seems about 

 as meagre as is so much of the evidence of very early man, which is con- 

 stantly coming forward in East Anglia. Plenty of pieces of wood similar 

 to that figured may be obtained from almost any peat bed, which are 

 known to have been contemporary with homo, but few experienced 

 naturalists would dare to suggest that they were ' humanly shaped.' 



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