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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



In Nature, No. 2684, Hilderic Friend asks ' Why do worms die ? ' 



' A Mansfield Mixture ' is the somewhat absurd title to a note irii 

 The Entomologist's Record for March. 



Prof. R. Newstcad describes ' The Roman Cemetery in the Infirmary 

 Fields, Chester,' in the Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology. 



Among the contents of Science Progress for April, we notice ' Sex 

 Heredity,' by A. S. Parkcs, and 'The Physical Investigation of the 

 Soil,' by B. A. Keen. 



' One Man's Work for us all : The Man who named the plants and 

 animals ' is the title of an illustrated ' Life Story of Carl Linnaeus ' in 

 Arthur Mee's My Magazine for May. 



Dr. G. R. Goldbrough has a paper ' On a Characteristic Property of 

 the Tidal Streams of the Straits of Dover,' in the Proceedings of the 

 University of Durham Philosophical Society, recently issued. 



W. J. Lucas contributes ' Notes on I3ritish Orthoptera, 1920,' and. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell and F. H. Haines write on ' Fossil Tipulida; from the 

 Oligocene of the Isle of Wight,' in The Entomologist for April. 



In the March issue the editor of The Scottish Naturalist suggests the 

 formation of a Scottish Naturalists' Union, one object of which will be 

 to ensure the publication of the field observations made by Scottish 

 naturalists. 



The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist for March is full of good 

 local material, including records of various ' neglected ' orders by R. S. 

 Bagnall ; but surely ' Scottish Plant Names ' would have been more 

 appropriately placed elsewhere ? 



The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist (Vol. XIII., No. 8) contains 

 notes on the mammals and birds of the counties covered by the title of 

 the journal, by T. A. Coward and W. H. Heathcote ; as well as 'Clay 

 Bank Vegetation,' by W. G. Travis. 



In some notes on ' The Boulders of the Travellers' Rest Gravel Pit, 

 Cambridge,' J. E. A. \Miealer, in The Geological Magazine for May, 

 records erratics from Scandinavia, Scotland and Scottish Borders, Lake 

 District, and North-eastern and Eastern England. 



The New Phvtologist for March, contains ' The Biochemistry of 

 Carbohydrate Production in the Higher Plants,' by F. F. Blackman ; 

 ' Heterothallism,' by E. M. Cutting ; ' Suberin and Cutin,' by J. H. 

 Priestley, and ' Studies in Phaenology,' by F. Darwin. 



A useful account of the current theories in connexion with the ' Isle 

 of Wight Disease ' of Bees is given in The Journal of the Ministry of 

 Agriculture for April. It is suggested that the name ' Isle of Wight ' 

 Disease is unsatisfactory, and that a better term would be ' Acarine ' 

 disease . 



J. H. Keys describes Cathormiocerus attaphilus Bris. : an addition 

 to the British Coleoptera, and J. Edwards writes ' On a Second British 

 Species oi Priobium : P. kiesenivetteri, nom. nov .-- tricolor Kiesw. 

 (nee 01. nee Muls.), and F. Laing describes various genera of British 

 Aphides (Homoptera), in The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for May. 

 We are glad to notice from The Museums Joutiial that it will appear 

 monthly and not less frequently as was recently proposed. The reason 

 is naively given as ' the Hon. Treasurer in his financial statement has 

 unexpectedly revealed a better position than anticipated.' Surely 

 the executive committee could have considered this point before taking 

 the drastic step which they did. 



Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. C. Granville Clutterbuck took a 

 musketry course during Easter, 1918, obtained a First Class Instructor's 

 Certificate and took a class which met two night's a week until the middle 

 of June, and also had an allotment, he has been able to contribute two- 

 and-a-half pages on ' Collecting in ii)i8 and mu) in Gloucestershire, 

 etc.,' to The Entomologist for May. 



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