NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



The Museums Journal (Vol. X., No. 3) has an illustrated article on 

 ' Some Recent Work in the Exeter Museum,' by the Curator, Mr. F. R. 

 Rowley. 



The Journal of Conchology for October contains illustrations and des- 

 cription of a ' curiously distorted A nodonta cygncsa ' from the Valley pond 

 at Scarborough. 



The Animal World for October contains a photograph of the Rorqual 

 recently stranded at Cloughton Wyke. It measured 51 feet in length,. 

 7 feet in height, and 9 feet across. 



In the Geological Magazine (No. 553), Mr. F. R. Cowper Reed describes 

 some new fossils from the Dufton Shales, and Mr. Bernard Smith has an 

 illustrated paper on ' The Upper Keuper Sandstones of East Nottingham.' 



In an article on ' British Scorpion Flies,' in The Entomologist (No. 566),. 

 Mr. W. J. Lucas figures a Huddersfield specimen of Panorpa germanica,. 

 though Yorkshire does not appear in the list of localities in which the species 

 has been recorded. 



' Recorder,' writing in the Geological Magazine for October, asks a 

 certain Yorkshire Society ' what possible use it is to publish generic names 

 under combinations of letters,' instead of giving them in full. This point 

 has recently been referred to in these columns. 



We have received Part i of Vol. I. of another publication bearing the 

 title of The Museum Journal, issued by the University of Pennsjdvania. 

 It is well illustrated, and deals with the administration of the museum, 

 its recent additions, etc. 



Dr. Tempest Anderson's presidential address to the Museums' Associa- 

 tion appears in Vol. X., part i, of the Museums Journal. It deals with 

 ' Volcanoes and their Museum Treatment.' Dr. Anderson points out 

 that ' you cannot stick a pin through a volcano and mount it in a cabinet 

 like a beetle.' 



The Irish Naturalist for September is a ' special Rosapenna Conference 

 number.' It is devoted to a Report of the Sixth Triennial Conference and 

 Excursion of the Irish Field Club Union, held at Rosapenna, July 8th to 

 13th. There are several excellent plates, and notwithstanding its increased 

 size, it is issued at sixpence. 



The Irish Naturalist for October contains a memoir on the late Samuel 

 Alexander Stewart, of Belfast. Stewart ' was the most remarkable, it 

 might almost be said,' the only example ' of a working-man naturalist in 

 Ireland.' An excellent portrait accompanies the notice, and there is a 

 list of his papers, etc. 



In a recent issue of The Zoologist (No. 830), Colonel C. E. Shepherd 

 gives some comparisons of Otoliths found in fishes, with illustrations ; 

 Mr. A. H. Swinton writes on ' The Vocal and Instrumental Music of 

 Insects ' ; and Mr. F. J. Stubbs has a note on ' The Nightingale in Lan- 

 cashire : a New Record.' 



Part 17 of Mr. J. W. Taylor's Monograph of the Land and Freshwater 

 Mollusca of the British Isles has been published, and deals with Helix 

 pomatia, H. aspersa and H. nemoralis. , Each is dealt with in the author's 

 characteristically thorough manner. There are numerous excellent illus- 

 trations, including two beautiful coloured plates shewing the varieties of 

 Helix pomatia. 



In The Neiv Phytologist[\'o\ . IX. , Nos. i and 2 ) , Dr. C. E. Moss has a lengthy 

 paper on ' Tlie Fundamental Units of Vegetation.' It is accompanied by 

 a good bibliography. In Nos. 6 and 7 of the same journal, Dr. F. Cavers 

 has an important memoir on ' The Inter-relationships of the Bryophyte,' 

 and Dr. ]\I. C. Stopes describes Adventitious Budding and Branching in 

 Cycas. 



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