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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



The Irish Naturalist for February contains an excellent portrait of 

 the late Professor Edward Hull. 



Mr. H. Britten describes Lholeva angustata F. and its Allies, in The 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for February. 



Mr Alfred Bell has an illustrated article on ' The Age of the Suffolk 

 Boxstones.' in the Geological Magazine for January. 



Mr. J. A. Wheldon continues his paper ' On the Collection, Taxonomy, 

 and Ecology of the Sphagna,' in The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist 

 for December. 



Mr. Hans Schlesch favours us with a copy of his paper ' Fauna der 

 islandischen Land-und Siisswasser-MoUusken,' reprinted from Nyt Mag- 

 azin for N aturvidenskaherne , Christiania. 



The death is announced of Miss Ethel Sargent, who was President of 

 section K (Botany) at the Birmingham meeting of the British Association, 

 being the first woman choSen to preside over a section. 



We have received an interesting paper on ' Quadruple Hybrids in the 

 F^ Generation from Oenothera nutans and Oenothera pycnocarpa, with the 

 F^ Generations, and the back and Inter-crosses,' by Prof. Geo. F. Atkinson, 

 reprinted from Genetics 2 : 213-259, May, 19 17. 



Wild Life for January contains the following papers, most of which are 

 illustrated : — Guillemots and Razorbills, by F. B. Kirkman ; The Common 

 Sandpiper in the Thames Valley, by E. E. Pettitt ; The White Stork, by 

 G. S. Felton ; The Ringed Plover, by H. Vardey ; and Abnormal Colour 

 in Mammals, by F. D. Welch. 



Mr. H. G. Alexander, in British Birds for February, records an 

 ' Albinistic Yellow Wagtail in Yorkshire ' (in Wensleydale). On another 

 page, but in smaller type, the same writer tells us that some rare Phylloscopi 

 previously recorded by him in Kent, Sussex, etc., were wrongly identified. 

 We are thus gradually clearing up some of the wonderful south country 

 records of rare birds which so frequently adorn the pages of our con- 

 temporary. 



We learn from Nature that ' It was stated in one of the morning papers 

 a few days ago that ' there have recently arrived in England evidences of 

 the most important zoological discovery that has come to light since the 



finding of that strange beast, the okapi The discovery proves very 



completely the existence of a new and hitherto unknown species of ele- 

 phant, a real dwarf elephant.' All that has really happened is that two 

 skeletons have just arrived in this country of a ' dwarf ' race of elephant 

 described in the Revue Zoologique Africaine in 1913. Thus the announce- 

 ment of this ' discovery ' is somewhat belated. The specimens just 

 received are stated to be fully adult examples, but this is not yet certain 

 and will be determined by Dr. C. W. Andrews, of the British Museum of 

 Natural History, to whom they have been submitted. But we have known 

 of the existence of dwarf elephants in Africa since 1906, when the first of 

 its kind was discovered. 



We notice a lengthy report of the Entomological section of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union meeting, held in October, appears in the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine for January, and while such a long report in our 

 contemporary is flattering to the Union and its work, we should like to 

 give our readers a hint that The Naturalist is the official organ of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and while we are delighted to see its work 

 reported in other journals, we should like to impress upon our members 

 the necessity of sending information of this kind to us promptly. Under 

 the present conditions the space provided for recording scientific work is 

 so small that it seems a waste to print the same information in two 

 different journals, and certainly just now, when we have so much matter 

 in hand, we hardly like to occupy our pages by a report which, through 

 no fault of the editors, can only appear some time after a similar report 

 has been published elsewhere. 



Naturalist, 



