NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
Professor C. J. Patten contributes some notes on ‘ The Aquatic Warbler’ 
to The Zoologist, for March. 
The Entomologist’s Record for May has an article on ‘ Breeding Odon- 
topera bidentata,’ by W. Bowater. 
The Lancashive and Cheshive Naturalist for April contains a continu- 
ation of Dr. J. W. Ellis’s ‘ Wirral Mycetozoa.? 
The Geological Magazine for May contains a memoir and portrait of 
Dr. A. Strahan, under the ‘ Eminent Living Geologists’ series. 
Knowledge for May contains a well illustrated article on “Some Notes 
on the Biology of the Larger British Fungi,’ by Somerville Hastings. 
The Belfast Museum and Art Gallery has issued its 47th publication, 
which deals with ‘ engravings’ and is well illustrated. It is sold at 1d. 
The Entomologist for May contains an article on ‘The Rearing of 
Larvae’ with special reference to the British Lepidoptera, by C. Rippon. 
The Scottish Naturalist for May includes a note on the ‘ Occurrence of 
the Eastern Short-Toed Lark at Fair Isle: an Addition to the British 
Avi-fauna.’ 
In the May issue of The Selbourne Magazine, the editor informs us that 
originally ‘an Adder ’ was called ‘a Nadder,’ and that another amphibian 
now called ‘a Newt,’ was originally termed ‘an Ewt.’ 
No doubt owing to the war, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological 
Society, No. 280, for December, issued April 9th, 1915, is the smallest 
number we ever have noticed. It contains a single paper dealing with 
New Zealand Lavas. 
From a circular issued by Mr. A. Flatters, of 16-20 Church Road, 
Longsight, Manchester, we gather that The Micrologist, the second volume 
of which was completed in April 1914, will be revived in October next, 
providing sufficient subscribers (6s. 8d. per annum) are forthcoming. 
Perhaps our readers who are interested will communicate with Mr. 
Flatters. 
According to The Daily News, ‘ the butterflies of this month are very 
few, apart from the second-hand hibernators from last year. The green 
hairstreak is a surprise without a rival. Who could see an apple-green 
butterfly without marking it with a red letter.’ To this Punch adds: 
‘This branding of butterflies, even if they are second-hand, ought to be 
stopped.’ 
Wild Life for May has four important contributions, namely, ‘ The 
Blackcocks’ Tournament,’ by H. B. Macpherson, ‘A Critical Study of 
British Rats,’ by F. J. Stubbs; ‘ The Early Breeding Habits of the Shag,’ 
by Edmund Selous, and ‘The Orange-Tip Butterfly,’ by A. E. Tonge, 
all of which are illustrated in the remarkably fine way now expected in 
this interesting publication. 
The New Phytologist published March 31st (the volume number, etc., 
etc., are much too long to quote) contains the following items: ‘New 
Marine Fungion Pelvetia,’ ‘ Vegetative Production of Flattened Protonema 
in Tetraphis pellucida,’ ‘The Algal Vegetation of Some Ponds on the 
Hampstead Heath,’ ‘A Somerset Heath and its Bryophytic Zonation,’ 
‘The Inter-relationships of Protista and Primitive Fungi,’ etc. 
From The Haslemere Natural History Society we have received Science 
Paper No. 6, ‘English Science and its Literary Caricaturists in the 17th 
and 18th Centuries,’ an address given at the 25th Anniversary of the 
Haslemere Natural History Society, 12th December, 1913, by Sir Archibald 
Geikie, O.M., K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. (45 pages, price 6d.). As might be 
expected from anything by Sir Archibald Geikie, the address is a very 
fascinating one and is extremely humorous. 
Naturalist, 
