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of English Speaking Students who have graduated at Leyden 
University ’ (1883), ‘The Monckton Papers’ (1885), ‘ Index 
to Engravings in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries ’ 
(1885). In 1873 he- published ‘France, the Empire and 
Civilisation,’ without the author’s name. Further, among 
other essays, he contributed eleven papers to the Archeéologia 
of the Society of Antiquaries, and many articles to The Pro- 
ceedings of the same Society. He also wrote several romances, 
‘ Ralf Skirlaugh,’ ‘ Mabel Heron,’ ‘ John Markenfield,’ ‘ Narcissa 
Brendon,’ and ‘ Otherwhere.’ He was also a careful collector 
of antiquities.—T.S. F 
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The principal article in British Birds for April deals with the Blakeney 
Point Ternery, and is well illustrated. 
In The Lancashive and Cheshire Naturalist for March, Dr. Jackson 
writes on ‘ Lancashire and Cheshire Arachnids and Myriopods.’ 
The Quarry for April contains an illustrated article on ‘ Excavating by 
Power,’ in which Lincolnshire and Yorkshire quarries are represented. 
The Scottish Naturalist for April contains a paper by the Hon. Sir 
Herbert Maxwell on ‘ Waterfowl and the American Pondweed (Elodea 
Canadensis).’ 
The Ivish Naturalist records the death of what is probably the last 
Irish golden eagle. In the same journal Dr. R. F. Scharff has a paper on 
the Irish Names of Mammals, though we fear few English readers will be 
able to make much of the names as printed, 
Wild Life for April contains a well illustrated article on Stone Curlew, 
written by Wm. Farren ; Frances Pitt describes The Martin ; Mr. Bootham 
has a note on The Buff-backed Heron; and Mr. F. J. Stubbs writes on 
The Plague Flea. The publication has the usual fine illustrations. 
The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for April contains a note on 
“An Anthomyid Fly, Phaonia ( Hvetodesta) trimaculata Bouche, New to the 
British List,’ the species being from Cheshire. Records of Cumberland 
Hemiptera-Heteroptera, and Cheshire Diptera in 1913-14, also appear. 
The Glasgow Natuvalist recently issued, edited by D. A. Boyd and J. 
Paterson, contains a record of the work of the Glasgow Natural History 
Society. Among the papers we notice ‘ West Highland Mosses,’ ‘ Glasgow 
Leeches,’ ‘ The Trees of Kilkerran,’ ‘Clyde Micro-fungi,’ ‘Clyde Marine 
Fauna,’ ‘Clyde Birds,’ and ‘ London Trees.’ 
In The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for March, Mr. F. B. Brown 
writes “ With regard to the specific identity of H. apicalis Thoms., and 
H. stviatus Shp., I am in the same position as my critic Dr. Sharp, in that 
neither of us has seen Thomson’s types, but, curiously enough, the very 
words which Dr. Sharp quotes from Thomson’s description, and which 
do not agree with any Haliplus known to Dr. Sharp, are just the words 
which first caused me to suspect the specific identity of stviatus and apicalis.’ 
The Geological Magazine for April contains an unusually large proportion 
of papers of particular interest to our readers. Dr. C. W. Andrews des- 
cribes a wonderfully perfect skeleton of Ophthalmosaurus icentcus from 
the Oxford Clay near Peterborough ; Professor J. W. Gregory describes 
“A Deep Bore at Seascale in Cumberland ;’ Mr. A. E. Trueman writes on 
the ‘Fauna of Hydraulic Limestones in South Notts.;’ Mr. A. Bell 
describes ‘ The Fossiliferous Deposits of Wexford and North Manxland,’ 
and the Rev. Canon Crewdson has a paper on ‘ The Coniston Grits of 
‘Windermere.’ 
1915 May 1. 
