404 News from the Magazines. 



Rules of Zoological Nomenclature, where we read that ' words 

 derived from the same radical and differing from each other 

 only in termination or by a simple change in spelling ' are 

 not to be rejected on this account, if once introduced. It is 

 therefore evident that the name haliotidea Drap. is, in any 

 case, perfectly valid for the species to which that name has 

 usually been applied ; and that all later names, such as 

 T. eiiropcBa Roissy, given to the same species,, should be 

 rejected as synonjans, according to the International Rules. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Leaflet, No. 57S, deals with 

 Beeswax. 



The Manchester Museum recently celebrated its looth birthday, and 

 an account of the history of this Institution, by Dr. W. M. Tattersall,, 

 appears in The Museums Journal for November. W. C. Williamson,, 

 formerly of the Scarborough Museum, was the first paid Curator at Man- 

 chester. 



On account of the cost of postage, The Lancashire and Cheshire Natura- 

 list is to appear bi-monthly in future. The July-August number, 

 published on October nth, contains ' Lepidoptera,' by J. C. Melvill ; 

 'Mammalia,' by G. Bolam ; ' Vertebrata,' and ' Manchester Museum,' 

 by T. A. Coward ; and ' Muscineae of the Wirral,' by W. A. Lee and 

 W. G. Travis. 



No. 16 of the Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History 

 Society (Longmans, Green & Co., 6/6), contains, among other notes, the 

 following : — ' On a Collection of Birds from Turkanaland,' by V. G. L. 

 van Someren ; ' Notes on East African Mammalia,' and ' Notes on East 

 African Tortoises,' by A. Loveridge ; ' Geographical Variation of some 

 East African Butterflies,' by K. St. Aubyn Rogers ; and ' Notes on Salt 

 Caves of Lumbwa,' by A. Knight Bruce. 



We are glad to observe the continued publication of The Essex Natur- 

 alist, pt. 5 of Vol. XIX., covering the period April to September, 1921, 

 having been recently issued. Among the contents are : — ' Ten years 

 progress in Lichenology : A Presidential Address,' by R. Paulson ; 

 ' Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York,' by G. Rickword ; ' Bird Notes 

 in Wanstead Park, February, 1877,' by the late A. Lister ; ' British 

 Oysters : Past and Present,' by A. Bell ; ' A MS. Essex Florula,' by 

 G. S. Boulger. 



We notice the following letter in a recent issue of The Yorkshire 

 Weekly Post : — ' I see in your interesting page devoted to Literary and 

 other Societies, a report of the Yorkshire Natural Science Association, 

 " An Organisation recently formed of teachers of Science, especially of 

 Chemistry and Physics," and it is immediately followed by a report of a 

 meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, which is one of the oldest 

 Societies of its kind in the country. In view of the similarity in these 

 two titles, I would suggest that the recent Yorkshire Natural Science 

 Association either changes its title or drops the word " Natural." — T.S. 



The Journal of Ecology for September is admirably produced, and 

 forms a substantial addition to the literature of this particular branch 

 of Science. Among the numerous contents of this part we notice the 

 following papers which will particularly appeal to our readers, 'The 

 Ecology of Urtica dioica,' by C. Olsen ; ' The Durmast oak-woods of the 

 Silurian and Malvernian strata. near Malvern,' by E. J. Salisbury and 

 A. G. Tansley ; ' The Effect of peat on the transpiration and growth of 

 certain plants,' by Kathleen M. Thatcher ; ' The Ecology of Calluna 

 vulgaris,' by M. C. Rayner ; ' Some Observations on Plants in the Libyan 

 Desert,' by H. H. Thomas. 



' Naturalist 



