NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, Vol. XXV., parts 

 3-4, 1909 (igio), contains Mr. J. Howard Reed's Address, given at the 

 inaugural meeting of the Kingston upon Hull Geographical Society, on 

 December 3rd, 1909. 



In 1864 Luperina gueneei was recorded at Rhyl, and seems to have 

 been overlooked, or at any rate not recorded, until quite recently, when 

 large numbers have been taken on the Lancashire coast. — Entomologist' s 

 Monthly Magazine for November. 



The latest achievement in connection with the use of the X-Rays is the 

 investigation of the internal structure of fossils, and Dr. Alfred Gradenwitz 

 shows in Knowledge for November what can be made out in the inside of a 

 petrified sea urchin, claiming that even the digestive tube can be seen 

 quite clearly. 



In the Museums Journal for October, Dr. Tempest Anderson has a 

 paper on ' The Decay of Stone Antiquities," in which he states he ' hewed 

 Prof. Boyd Donkins ! ' We hope this is only a misprint. The paper is 

 illustrated by a photograph of the attendant at the York Museum, in a 

 doorway ! In the same journal Mr. E. L. Gill, of the Newcastle Museum, 

 has a paper on ' A Simple Method of Exhibiting Corals.' 



The Annals of Scottish Natural History (No. 75) contains an elaborate 

 paper on ' The Insect Fauna of Grouse Moors,' by Mr. Grimshaw, who spent 

 some time during June and July on various grouse moors, principally for 

 the purpose of investigating the nature of the food of grouse chicks. Four 

 localities were investigated, three in Scotland, the fourth being Burley-in- 

 Wharfedale, Yorks. Lists of the species obtained are given. 



There seems to be a difficulty in finding new names for minerals, and 

 we can only hope that some of those recently described are exceed- 

 ingly rare. In The Mineralogical Magazine just to hand, Mr. L. J. Spencer 

 gives a fifth list of new mineral names. This includes Amatrice, Benitoite, 

 Bityite, Bravoite [an American !], Pulleite, Tawmawite, Vorobyevite, 

 Pseudodeweylite, Paramontmorillonite, Oxykertschenite, Ferripurpuritc, 

 Calciopalygorskite, etc. 



In The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (No. 555), Mr. J. Ray Hardy 

 describes a Dipteron new to the British fauna. The specimens have been 

 identified as Fannia [Homalornyia) insignis, and were obtained from a large 

 and old nest of Vespa vulgaris, found on a farm at Northern Etchells, in 

 Cheshire. In the same journal Commander J. J. Walker describes the 

 Lepidoptera in the Dale Collection, now in the Oxford University. This 

 includes the type specimen of Acentropus niveus Oliv., which is said to have 

 been described in The Naturalist for 1837, p. 14, though we cannot trace it. 



The Bradford Scientific Journal commences its third volume with an 

 account of Shipley Glen, by Mr. W. P. Winter ; Mr. E. E. Gregory describes 

 an unrecorded Roman road and camp at Swinden, near Hellifield, though 

 the evidence does not seem to be the most conclusive ; there is a note by 

 the late W. Cudworth on ' Rombalds ^loor Antiquities ' ; Mr. H. B. 

 Booth has an ornithological item ; Mr. J. H. Ash worth describes the 

 ' Local Flies in 1909,' and Mr. B. Spencer writes on Plant Lore. In the 

 last note we observe that an old Anglo-Saxon herbal gives this prescrip- 

 tion against a ' talkative woman : ' — ' Against a woman's chatter taste at 

 night fasting, a root of radish ; that day the chatter cannot harm thee.' 

 In Vol. III., part 2, there is a further contribution from Mr. Winter on 

 Shipley Glen ; Mr. S. R. Illingworth has a suggestive paper on ' The Shale 

 Heap, why should it be a waste heap ? ' Mr. A. Haigh-Lumby writes on 

 The Migration of Birds ; there is a lecture on Bolton Abbey, by Mr. H. E. 

 Wroot ; and Mr. J. Beanland writes on the Vegetation of Chellow Dean. 

 We learn from the ' Annual Report ' that unless the Subscription List to 

 the Journal is not materially increased during the next half year, it will 

 not be continued. 



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