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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
In British Birds for January, Mr..H. C. Alexander writes ‘ A Practical 
Study of Bird Gécology.’ 
In The Museums Journal for December, Mr. B. H. Mullen. describes 
the Children’s Room at the Salford Museum. 
In volume 4, part 1, of the Journal of Roman Studies is an article on 
“Roman Silver in Northumberland,’ by Professor Haverfield. 
The Museums Journal for January contains a paper on ‘ Bankfield 
[Halifax] Museum Publications,’ by Mr. H. Ling Roth. 
Volume 15, part 1 of the Annals of the South Arican Museum consists. 
of an account of ‘South African Crustacea,’ by the Rev. T. R. Stebbings. 
The Ivish Naturalist for February is partly occupied by ‘A List of 
the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the Dingle Promontory,’’ by A. W. 
Stelfox. 
In The Zoologist for January, Colonel C. E. Shepherd gives an illustrated 
note on ‘The Location of the Sacculus and its contained Otoliths in 
Fishes.’ 
In The Quarry for February, Mr. R. Parker has an article on ‘ Tar 
Macadam, its Manufacture and Industry,’ in which he describes the works 
of Messrs. Ord and Maddison of Darlington. 
With The Zoologist for January, the editorship has changed: Mr. W. 
L. Distant has severed his connection with the journal after many years’ 
work, and the new editor is Mr. Frank Finn. 
Bivd Notes and News volume 6, part 4, contains an interesting article 
on the food of the house sparrow, and the statistics are certainly in favour 
of the bird being of service to the fruit grower. 
In The New Phytologist, volume 13, No. 9, we notice an article by N. 
Bancroft on ‘A Review of Literature concerning the Evolution of Mono- 
cotyledons,’ and in part 1o of the same journal there is a paper by Ruth 
Holden on ‘ The Relation between Cycadites and Pseudocycas.’ 
In the Scottish Naturalist for January, Mr. W. Eagle Clark describes 
“A New Scottish Bird: the Aquatic Warbler, at Fair Isle,’ and in the 
same Journal, Mr. George Bolam has notes on * Newts on the Eastern 
Borders,’ in which reference is made to localities in Northumberland. 
British Birds tor February contains an illustrated paper on ‘ Breeding 
Habits of the Little Stint,’ by Maud D. Haviland. Mr. H. W. Robinson 
gives a report on the results of Ringing Black-Headed Gulls. From the 
list it seems that of 8,096 birds ringed at Ravensglass, 345 have been 
recovered. 
In The Geological Magazine for January is a notice of the work of Dr. 
Arthur Smith Woodward, of the British Museum (Natural History), 
whose researches among the fossil fishes, etc. are so well known. Dr. Wood- 
ward has done much to add to our knowledge of the fossil fishes of the 
Yorkshire Lias, etc. The memoir is one of the ‘Eminent Living Geologists’ 
series, and is accompanied by an excellent portrait. 
Among many of the articles appearing in The Essex Naturalist, parts 
ro and 12 of volume 17, for April-December, 1913, recently received, we 
notice :—‘ Sarsen, Basalt, and other Boulders in Essex’; ‘ The Coast- 
Flora of the Clacton District’; ‘Mycetozoa seen during the Crypto- 
gamic Forays in Epping Forest’; ‘The Occurrence of Rhaxella-Chert 
in Epping Forest Gravels’; ‘ Notes on Essex Geology at the latter end of 
the Nineteenth Century and After’; ‘Cultivation of Fuller’s Teasel in 
Essex,’ etc. 
Naturalist, 
