380 Neii's from the Magazines. 



A report of Experiments in Inheritance of Colour in Lcpidoptcra was 

 submitted, in which we are informed three times in less than a page, that 

 a full report will appear in the Journal of Genetics, and thrice also, that 

 the experiments will be continued.' 



The Final Reports on ' Charts and Pictures for use in Schools ' was 

 presented, and contains valuable information. 



The Sunday Obsevvey tells us that The British Association is one of 

 the institutions which just save science and popular thought in this 

 country from the analogy of those parallel lines which never meet. 



In his report on ' Modern ^^■haling Statistics,' Sir Sidney F. Harmer 

 pointed out that the examination of reports by Government officials, 

 supplemented by voluminous statistics which have been furnished by 

 the whaling companies, at South Georgia and elsewhere, to the British 

 Museum (Natural History), has shown that there are indications of a 

 serious diminution in the number of whales, in an industry which com- 

 menced so recently as the end of 1904. In the case of the humpback, a 

 marked decrease in the number of individuals captured commenced 

 after the end of the season 191 1 -12 ; while there is reason to fear that a 

 similar decline in the numbers of blue whales commenced after the end 

 of the season 191 7-18. 



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The Irish Naturalist for October is entirely occupied by a paper on 

 ' The Relation of Song to Nesting in Birds.' 



W. G. Sheldon writes on ' The Life-c^'cle and habits of Cydia legum- 

 inana Z., with a note on its synonymy, in The Entouwlogist for October. 



Notes on the Great Auk (illustrated), by \V. H. >.Iullens : and ' Note 

 on the Red -backed Shrike,' by J. H. Owen, occur in British Birds for 

 October . 



' Notes on Down and Dublin Plants,' by R. L. Praeger, and ' Iri-sh 

 Ichneumonidae and Braconidae,' by W. F. Johnson, appear in The Irish 

 Naturalist for September. 



Among the contents of Camping for October we notice ' The South of 

 England Tour," ' Heavyweight's Holiday in Wales,' ' Late October in 

 Lakeland,' and ' Pigs and Pitches.' 



An excellent series of articles on ' The Stones of London,' by J. V. 

 Elsden and J. A. Howe, is appearing in The Quarry ; the September 

 issue dealing with Magnesian Limestone. 



Among numerous papers and notes in The Journal of Conchology for 

 September, we notice ' Notes on the Growth and Variation of Unio 

 pictoruni,' by W. E. Alkins, and ' ^loUusca of Oundle,' by C. E. Y. 

 Kendall. 



Among the papers in The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for 

 October are StenopeUnus rufinasus Gyll., an addition to the list o^ 

 British Coleoptera ; Anthoiiomus cinctus Kollar in Britain, and Aradus 

 betulae L., an addition to the British Hemiptera-Heteroptera. 



In The Naturalist for July, p. 225, reference was made to a curious 

 nesting site in Shipley Glen, where some Blue Tits built their nest in 

 the body of a hobby hoi^se on a roundabout. A photograph of the actual 

 'horse,' with the bird leaving the nest, appears in The Selborne Magazine, 

 No. 347, just issued. 



The Antiquaries Journal for October contains, among many other 

 items, ' Two Relic-holders from Altars in the Nave of Rievaulx Abbey ' ; 

 ' Ancient Settlements at Harlyn Bay,' ' The Polygonal Type of Settle- 

 ment in Britain,' ' Neolithic Bowl,' etc., fr(^m the Thames,' and ' Hoard 

 of Currency Bars found near Winchester.' 



The October Science Progress, besides the usual useful summaries 

 and reviews, contains papers on ' Some Implications of the Chromosome 

 Theory of Heredity,' by J. S. Huxley ; ' Some Biological Eilects of the 

 Tides,' by F. W. Flattely, ' Symbiosis and the Biology of Food,' by H. 

 Keinhcimer,' and ' Some other Bees,' by H. Mace. 



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