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 NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



The price of The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist has been increased 

 to 6d. a month. 



' Agricultural Damage by Vermin and Birds ' is the title of a paper 

 by Mr. H. S. Gladstone in The Scottish Naturalist for April. 



New Chalk Polyzoa, Lincolnshire Lias, Mountain Building, Datum- 

 lines in English Keuper, and Isostasy, are among the subjects discussed 

 in The Geological Magazine for March. 



Two parts of the Essex Naturalist have recently appeared covering the 

 period July, 1915-March, 1917 ; each is filled with valuable papers and 

 reports upon the Natural History and Archaeology of the county. 



In The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 288, Dr. Stanley 

 Smith has a paper on ' Aulina rotiformis, gen. et. sp. nov., PhillipsastrcBa 

 hennahi (Lonsdale) and Orionastrcea, gen. nov.', which is well illustrated. 



British Birds for April records two Great Skuas, near Flamborough, 

 in November last, and the appearance of a Swallow near Blackpool on 

 March 5th of this year. There is also a coloured plate of the Marsh 

 Warbler. 



In The Entomologist for April, Mr. T. H. Taylor gives some ' Observa- 

 tions on the Habits of the Turnip Flea-Beetle,' made at Garforth and Leeds. 

 The same journal contains a note on the ' Abundance of Black Phigalia 

 pilosaria at Burnley.' 



In The Irish Naturalist for March, Messrs. R. A. Phillips and A. W. 

 Stelfox have an illustrated paper on ' Recent Extensions of the Range of 

 Pisidium hibernicum,' in which they record its presence in Lancashire, 

 Cheshire and the Isle of Man. 



In The Entomologist's Record for March, Capt. Bowater describes 

 ' Inbreeding Amphidasis betularia ' to the seventh generation, and Mr 

 T. A. Chapman describes a specimen of an Ant, Myramica scabrinodis, 

 which lived over 50 days without a head and part of the time also without 

 some of its legs. 



A few days ago (says The Field) a very large eel, 43 in. long, and 5 lb. 

 8^ oz. in weight, was captured as it was making its way through the grass 

 from a large pond to an old mill sluice some little distance away. The pond 

 is situated close to the railway near Horsforth. The old mill sluice is 

 indirectly connected with the River Aire. 



The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist for February contains reports 

 of the Fauna Committee for the two counties, dealing with Birds, Chelifers, 

 Rhynchota, Odonata, Neuroptera, Orthoptera and Protozoa. In the same 

 journal it is recorded that in two fields near Warrington recently there were 

 at least 10,000 mole-hills of various sizes. 



Wild Life for February contains the following articles, most of which 

 are well illustrated : — ' Guillemots and Razorbills,' by F. B. Kirkman ; 

 ' Wild Cats of the Double-Normal Colouration,' by F. D. Welch ; ' Some 

 Observations on Birds' Songs and Calls,' by C. W. Colthrup ; and ' Some 

 Birds of North-west Surrey,' by E. Pettitt. 



A writer in Nature complains of the fact that the British Association 

 meeting has been postponed, and suggests that a shorter meeting might 

 be held in London, for which he certainly gives good reasons. It does 

 seem strange that at present, of all times, the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science should be practically dormant for two years ! 



Some very important criticisms on the suggested National Union of 

 Scientific Workers occur in The New Phytologist published on March 

 nth. They should be read by all interested in the subject. In the same 

 journal are some remarks on 'The Reconstruction of Elementary Botanical 

 Teaching,' one line of which, on page 6, reads : ' a perusal of ecological 

 iterature; as Huxley said of holastic philosophy ' ; evidently the subject 

 has been too much for the compositor ! 



1918 Mayl. 



