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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES, Etc. 



On account of the large quantity of papers and reports in hand we are 

 printing more than usual in the smaller type, in order to prevent delay. 



The Museums Journal for March contains an account of William 

 Bullock's London Museum. 



The Annual meeting of the British Association, which was to have 

 taken place this year at Cardiff, has been cancelled, for the second year 

 in succession. 



Mr. A. E. Trueman writes on ' The Lias of South Lincolnshire ' in 

 The Geological Magazine for February, and Mr. J. Wilfred Jackson writes 

 on ' The New Brachiopod Genus, Liothyrella, of Thomson.' 



British Birds for March contains Notes on the Kingfisher, by W. 

 Rowan ; A Note on the Nesting of the Swallow, by J. H. Owen ; and 

 Records of the Common Buzzard in Derbyshire, and of the Red Throated 

 Diver Inland in Lincolnshire. 



The Sunderland Library Circular, No. 6i, records that important 

 additions have been made to the collection of local Magnesian Limestone 

 Concretions, by Dr. G. Abbott, and that the blind were the first to ' see ' 

 the ' tank ' on its arrival at Sunderland. 



Mr. A. H. Paterson has presented his manuscript notebooks from 1878- 

 19 1 6, a complete set of his published works relating to the Natural History 

 of Norfolk, and about a thousand of his well-known cartoons of local 

 interest, to the Norwich Public Library. 



The Entomologist for February contains the following items : ' Notes 

 on New and Little Known British Aphides,' by Fred V. Theobald ; ' On 

 a Cure for Entomological Specimens affected by Verdigris,' by W. G. 

 Sheldon ; ' Facts about Eustrcma reticulata,' by Rev. Euston Nurse ; 

 ' The Abundance of White Butterflies in 191 7,' by Robert Adkin. 



In The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for March, Mr. G. C. Champion 

 writes : ' Sysciophthalmus craivshayi Champ . . . the remarkable Curculionid 

 described in the February number of this magazine . . . under the above 

 name, proves to be synonymous with Anomophthalmus insolitus Fairm. 

 (1884).' It is a pity this was not found out before describing the new 

 species. 



Dr. F. A. Bather, writing in The Museums Journal, states ' Museums, 

 I confess, weary me. Perhaps I have seen too many. And of all kinds 

 of Museums those devoted to Art seem least to yield the mental refreshment 

 which it should be their first aim to offer.' We would recommend Dr. 

 Bather to spend a few hours in the Victoria and Albert Museum and 

 other institutions at South Kensington. 



Among the contents of Science Progress, No. 47, in addition to the 

 valuable reports by specialists on recent advances in science in its various 

 sections, are the following : — The Density of Liquids, by J. Reilly ; The 

 Age and Area Law, A Fundamental Law of Geographical Distribution by 

 James Small, The Hypopyhsis Cerebri : Its Structure and Development, 

 by K. M. Parker, and the inevitable Pre-Pal r olithic Man in England, by 

 Mr. J. Reid Moir. Referring to the Piltdown remains, Mr. Moir considers 

 these have been so extraordinarily misinterpreted that he feels it necessary 

 that he should comment upon them. He informs us that as a practical 

 flaker of flint, if he had been asked what sort of implements were used by 

 a man having the features of the Piltdown skull he would have replied : 

 ' The very primitive edge-trimmed flints generally known as Eoliths,' but 

 precisely how his experience as a flint knapper enables him to define the 

 nature of implements made by a man whose 'only remains' known consist 

 of very fragmentary portions of skull, it is difficult to understand. We 

 cannot find that, notwithstanding all his quotations and footnotes, Mr. 

 Moir advances things very much, and in looking for something entirely 

 new on the subject we think we have found it, for on page 473 we are 

 informed that ' Piltdown is not in Asia.' 



^Naturalist, 



