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 NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



J . P. Burkitt writes on ' The Relation of Song to the Nesting of Birds, ' 

 in The Irish Naturalist for January. 



Mr. H. F. Witherby gives interesting details of his ' British Birds ' 

 marking scheme in British Birds for February. 



Some carved sperm whale teeth and bone- are illustrated and described 

 by Mr. T. Sheppard in The Mariner's Mirror for January. 



E. N. Fallaize gives ' Suggestions for the Classification of the Subject- 

 matter of Anthropology,' in The Museums Journal for January. 



Moorland Grazing, and the Distribution of Wart Disease, are among 

 many matters discussed in The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture for 

 January. 



Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson favours us with a copy of his paper ' On the 

 Occurrence of Lusitanian Brachiopods in the Persian Gulf,' which appears 

 in The Ann. and Mag. Nat. History for January. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell describes ' An Ortalid Fly in British Amber,' 

 in The Entomologist for February ; though from his remarks it seems quite 

 possible that the species may not be British and the material may not be 

 amber ! 



Gonepteryx cleopatra L. Has it more than one brood per annum ? by 

 J. A. Simes ; and ' Coleoptera of Freckenham and Barton Mills again,' 

 by H. Donisthorpe, appear in The Entomologist's Record, Vol. XXXII., 

 No. II. 



Dr. Wm. Evans Hoyle has an article on 'Training and Diplomas for 

 Curators ' in The Museums Journal for February. This paper was read 

 at the Winchester Conference, and the valuable discussion which followed 

 is also printed. 



' Bramblings in Westmorland,' ' Late Yellow Wagtail in Cumber- 

 land,' ' Migratory White Wagtails in Yorkshire in Autumn,' and ' Rate 

 of Progress of Great Crested Grebe under Water, ' are among the numerous 

 items in British Birds for January. 



H. Rowland -Brown, in The Entomologist for January, points out 

 that C. dispar occurs in Holland, and a most careful examination of 

 recent Dutch specimens results in it being impossible to distinguish 

 them from the old English ' large Coppers ' which formerly existed in 

 the fens. 



The British species of the sylvaticus-group of Pipinculus (Diptera[)] 

 are described by J. E. Collin, in The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 

 No. 679 ; in No. 680 are notes on' Coleoptera from Wensleydale,' and on 

 ' Resting Positions of some Nematocerous Diptera ' ; the latter by F. W. 

 Edwards. 



Camping, for January, has a new design on the cover — the result of 

 a competition ; unsuccessful designs, all good ones, are reproduced inside. 

 The magazine is full of the usual entertaining matter interesting to 

 campers, and there is the Report of the Council, 1920-1921. The annual 

 subscriptions amount to £468. 



Discovery, the cheap and ' popular ' journal, commences the New 

 Year by changing the colour of the cover, doubling the price, and the 

 editor discusses the problem as to whether Edwin Drood was murdered ! 

 He has recently spent a happy period in bed, and read the book, and he is 

 quite sure, this time, of the author. It is Charles Dickens. Of course, 

 the paper contains other notes as well — on rain gauge-. Lord Lister, Land 

 and Sea in Greek Life, and the Structure of the Universe. 



' The Interglacial Problem and the Glacial and Post-glacial Sequence 

 in Northumberland and Durham ' is referred to by Dr. D. Woolacott, in 

 The Geological Magazine or January. Contributors are warned that in 

 future they must pay for illustrations to their papers, yet nearly half 

 the January issue is occupied b}^ part of a paper by Dr. Prieswerk on 

 'The Oil Region of the Punjab,' illustrated by numerous blocks and a 

 large folding map — a paper which appeals to but few British geologists. 



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