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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES, etc. 



Nature for June 6th contains notes on ' The Position of Natural 

 Science in the Educational System of Great Britain.' 



Dr. J. S. Flett, F.R.S., and Capt. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., have 

 been elected Officers of the British Empire, for service in France. 



The Scottish Naturalist for June contains a paper on the ' Occurrence 

 of a Giant Squid (A re hits lit his) on the Scottish Coast,' by James Ritchie. 



Under the head of ' Gleanings from my Note-book,' Dr. J. W, H. 

 Harrison describes many northern county records in The Entomologist 

 for July. 



The collections formed by the late George J . Hinde have been presented 

 to the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History) by 

 the family. 



Now that The Zoologist is dead, we are prepared to place our pages 

 at the disposal of writers of short notes on Mammals, Fishes and Reptiles 

 of this country. 



We should like to congratulate Mr. Albert Gilligan, the Secretary of 

 the Yorkshire Geological Society, on receiving the D.Sc. Degree of the 

 Leeds University. 



Our contributor, Mr. A. E. Trueman, has received the D.Sc. degree 

 of the University of London for a thesis entitled ' The Evolution of the 

 LiparoceratidcB ,' and other papers. 



An excellent account of the ' Cowling Ramble ' held jointly with the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, has been prepared by Mr. J. Bradley, for 

 the benefit of the Haworth Ramblers. 



We regret to notice the announcement of the death of Dr. E. A. Newell 

 Arber, at the age of 47. He was an authority on Fossil Plants, and the 

 author of a number of books and papers on the subject. - ^ 



We notice that Civil List pensions have been granted to the Widows of 

 the late Prof. J. W. Judd, R. F. H. Rippon, Dr. Arthur Vaughan and 

 George Coffey, and also to the daughter of the late Dr. Jonathan Couch. -* 



Mr. Claude Morley gives some ' Awkward Incidents in an Entomological 

 Career ' in The Entomologist for July. His notes include a record of the 

 fact that he once rolled upon three ' hard-boiled ' eggs which were in his 

 pocket, but which proved not to be ' hard-boiled.' 



We learn from Nature that some human bones found on an alleged 

 ancient level, near Ipswich, by Mr. J. Reid Moir, are pronounced by 

 Prof. Keith to be ' essentailly identical with those of modern man.' 

 Judging from the results of some of Mr. Moir's previous researches we can 

 believe this is quite possible. 



The Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 191 7, recently 

 to hand, shows steady progress in the various branches of the Society's 

 work. It includes a report of the Field Naturalists' section. Meteoro- 

 logical notes, additions of the Museum and Library, and an article on 

 ' John Browne, the Historian of York Minster,' by George Benson. 



In The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for July, Mr. P. H. Grimshaw 

 records ' Chortophila pilipyga Villeneuve ' for Nottinghamshire, and Mr. 

 R. S. Bagnall records ' Campodea meinerti sp. n.' at Manchester, Durham, 

 etc., and ' C. wallacei sp. n.' from Heaton, near Newcastle. In the same 

 journal, Mr. G. B. Walsh records ' Silpha nigrita Creutz. in Co. Durham.' 



The British Musem (Natural History) has just issued ' A map showing 

 the known Distribution in England and Wales of the Anopheline Mosquitoes, 

 with explanatory text and notes by William Dickson Lang, M.A.' (63 pp., 

 2S. 6d.). The distribution of A. maculipennis , A. bifurcatus and A. 

 plumbeus are indicated, but judging from the localities given we should 

 assume that the map more really represents the areas in which naturalists 

 have collected anophelines than the actual distribution of the species. 

 Most of the Yorkshire records are centred round the Filey district, whereas 

 large areas in other parts of the shire, as well as in other northern counties, 

 seem to be without any records at all. 



NaturklitI, 



