NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



Camping for March has an attractive new cover. 



Mr. Miller Christy writes on 'A Super-abundant Sea Harvest,' in 

 T}ie Selhorne Magazine, No. 345. 



1^ ' The Mining, Manufacture and Uses of Barytes,' by V. Bramall, 

 appears in The Quarry for March. 



Mr. H. Donisthorpe gives Myrmecophilous Notes for 1920 in The 

 Entomologist's Record for February. 



Dr. R. F. Scharff records some young Loggerhead Turtles, recently 

 washed up on the Irish coast, in The Irish Naturalist for March. 



A writer in The Journal of Conchology states ' One day we took 270 

 live cockles, weighing 28 lbs., and feasted royally on them.' Apparently ! 



Nature, No. 2677, is largely devoted to a series of articles, by special- 

 ists, dealing with various aspects of Einstein's Principle of Relativity. 



It is not often that Nature is caught napping, but ' Negresses and dead 

 orang-utan ' is hardly a correct description of the group represented on 

 page 699 of No. 2674. 



A reviewer in The Museums Journal tells of an author who conveys 

 his knowledge ' with cr^'stalline clarity ' — we wonder if the reviewer 

 had ' clarety ' in mind. 



British Ichneumons, by C. Morley ; On Nabis lativentris , by E. A. 

 Butler ; Physothrips laius, by R. S. Bagnall, occur in The Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine for March. 



Some Notes on Rearing Erebia epiphvon, by the late J. Anderson ; 

 The Variation of Peronea cristana, by W. G. Sheldon ; New Forest 

 Notes and Captures, by H. P. Jones, appear in The Entomologist for 

 March . 



Dr. J. Ritchie writes on ' The Walrus in British Waters,' in The 

 Scottish Naturalist for January-February ; Capt. S. E. Brock writes on 

 ' Bird Associations in Scotla.nd ' ; and Dr. W. E. Collinge on ' The 

 Need for a Bird Census.' 



Notices of the late Charles Ledger, a native of Hull, and a well-known 

 Oldham naturalist ; by H. H. Wareing and J. F. Robinson, appear in 

 The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist for January. The same journal 

 contains ' The Wood lice and other Crustacea of Derbyshire and Stafford- 

 shire,' by R. Standen. 



In Man for March, Mr. G. A. Garfitt has a note ' On a Recent Dis- 

 covery of Rock Sculptures in Derb3Ashire.' He describes a stone which 

 contains what he considers to be representations of deer antler picks, 

 etc., though we are not convinced ; another stone bears seven horse- 

 shoe curves. . . . ' This stone was given to the Sheffield Literary 

 and Philosophical Society in 1824. It was figured by Geo. Tate, F.S.A., 

 in his Sculptured Rocks of Northumberland in 1865, and by Sir J. Y. 

 Simpson in his Archaic Sculpturings, in 1867. When Sheffield formed a 

 Public Museum, this stone, with other objects, was handed over, but 

 its label has been lost, and it has lain for 48 years, out of doors, unrecog- 

 nised.' Sheffield seems to be in the limelight now-a-days. 



From what we are happy to see is to be the last ' double number, 

 Vol. XIX., Nos. 9 and 10, November and December, 1920,' we learn that 

 ' As from the beginning of Volume XX., 192 1, the subscription price 

 of The New Phytologist will be raised to 25 shillings net for the annual 

 volume of not less than 240 pages. Five issues will appear during the 

 year, numbered i — 5, and each bearing the date of publication. The 

 cost of each of these, supplied separately, will be 7s. 6d. net.' A_mong 

 the contents of this part we notice ' Mutations and Evolution,' by 

 W. R. Gates ; ' Notes on Freshwater Algae,' b}' W. J. Hodgetts, ; 

 ' Plant Families : a plea for International Sequence,' by A. Gundersen ; 

 " The Evolution of Primitive Plants fiom the Geologist's Viewpoint,' by 

 C. Schuchert ; and ' A Hydrion Differentiation Theory of Heliotropism,' 

 by J. SmalL 



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