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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES, etc. 



Dr. W. E. Collinge writes on ' The Value of Insectivorous Birds ' in 

 Nature for July 25th. 



The death is announced of Dr. R. O. Cunningham, Professor of Geology 

 and Natural History, Belfast. 



A recent number of Country Life contains an interesting article on 

 Duck Decoys in Holland, by Mr. Riley Fortune. 



The grants made for scientific research during 1919, by the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, amount to ;^268. 



' Uronema elongatuni : a new freshwater member of the Ulotrichaceae,' 

 by William J. Hodgetts, appears in The New Phytologist for July. 



R. S. Bagnall and J. W. H. Harrison write ' On some Cynipid Oak-Galls 

 new to the British Fauna ' in the Entomologist' s Monthly Magazine for 

 August. 



The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist for July contains an account 

 of the Fungus Flora of Lancashire, by H. J. Wheldon, and notes on 

 Myriapoda, etc. 



The Transactions and Journal of the Eastbourne Natural History, etc., 

 Society, No. 21, Vol. VIH., contain ' Notes Towards a History of the 

 Society,' 1 867-191 7. 



The Annual Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field 

 Club, Vol. VII., part 5, contains an appendix dealing with ' The Wood-Lice 

 of Ulster,' by H. N. Foster. 



Mr. W. R. Butterfield, of the Hastings Museum, who is evidently an 

 authority on the subject, writes on Love-spoons, Spooning and Symbols 

 of Affection, in The Connoisseur for August. 



Prof. J. W. Gregory's address on ' The Geology of Phosphates and 

 their Bearing on the Conservation of Mineral Resources ' appears in the 

 Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgoiv, Vol. XVI., part 2. 



In The Geological Magazine for August, in the ' Eminent Living Geol- 

 ogists ' series, is an account of the work of G. W. Lamplugh, a past 

 President of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, together with a Portrait 

 and a list of his books and memoirs. 



Ignorance fortunately is always dispelled by steady pressure. Mr. 

 Owen Seaman's scathing verses on the Treasury, aided by colonial protests, 

 has at last succeeded in forcing open the doors of the British Museum, and 

 the treasures of the nation will no longer be locked from the children of 

 the empire, by official stupidity. 



British Birds for August contains a paper on ' the Heather and Grouse 

 Disease,' by J. Dugald Macintire. The same journal contains notes on 

 Snow Finches in Sussex ; ' only three specimens of these species have 

 previously been obtained [!], one from Sussex and two from Kent ' ; Large 

 Wall-Creeper, from Sussex, which is the sixth specimen from England 

 and the fourth from Sussex. All the specimens were duly shot and 

 ' examined in the flesh.' 



Among the additions recently made to the Manchester Museum are 

 the valuable collections of British butterflies, moths and beetles, and a 

 number of important entomological books which belonged to the late 

 Joseph Sidebotham, presented by Mr. J. W. Sidebotham ; a number of 

 rare insects and other animals collected when on military duty in German 

 East Africa, presented by Captain A. G. Wilkins, R.A.M.C. Mr. Edward 

 Melland has handed over his specimens of New Zealand birds and their 

 eggs, many of which ai'e now rare or extinct. This collection includes a 

 good range of Kiwis and most of the native ducks. The Committee has 

 acquired the ' Fred Enock ' myramids, a large number of beautifully 

 mounted typical specimens of a group of the hymenop.era that are para- 

 sitic upon the eggs of leaf-hoppers, plant bugs and apnids, insects destruc- 

 tive to food plants, and a valuable collection of ammonites from Mr. 

 S. S. Buckman, many of which are type specimens. 



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