NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
Colonel C. E. Shepherd has a paper on ‘ The “ Lapillus ’”’ in Fishes,’ 
in The Zoologist for July. 
There are notes on ‘ The Moults and Sequence of Plumages in some 
British Ducks,’ by Annie C. Jackson, in British Birds for July. 
In Man for July, Mr. W. P. Pycraft puts forward ‘ A Plea for a sub- 
stitute for the Frankfort Base-line: with an account of a new method of 
drawing Skull Contours.’ 
The Geological Magazine for July includes papers on ‘ The River Tyne 
Drainage Area,’ by Edward Merrick, and ‘ Marine Band in Midland Coal- 
Measures, Lancashire,’ by R. L. Sherlock. 
From, Mr. T. Petch we have received a reprint of a paper on ‘ The 
Fungus-diseases of Hevea brasiliensis’ in the Internationaal Rubber- 
Congres met Tentoonstelling, Batavia, 1914. 
We notice in the ‘ Additions to British Conchology,’ published in the 
Journal of Conchology for July, a record of Tyvochus occidentalis ‘ off 
Withernsea,’ and Littovina vudis var. similis from the Isle of Man. 
The Lancashive and Cheshive Naturalist, No. 86, contains many reports 
issued by the members of the Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Committee. 
There is also a record of ‘ Sclerotinia currveyana in the Ribble Valley.’ 
The Scottish Naturalist for July is an unusually thick number, and is 
devoted entirely to ‘A Report on Scottish Ornithology in 1914, including 
Migration,’ by Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, and is 
sold at Is. 6d. net. 
Wild Life for July contains a well illustrated paper on ‘ The Home 
Life of the Kestrel,’ by O. J. Wilkinson ; ‘ Hobbies,’ by J. G. Cornish ; 
“The Otter,’ by J. K. Emsley ; ‘The Ringed Plover,’ by William Farren, 
and ‘ Domestic Habits of the Little Grebe,’ by Edmund Selous. 
In The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for July, Mr. J. Edwards 
has some notes on British Homoptera, which include records from York- 
shire, Nottinghamshire, and other northern stations; illustrations are 
given. Mr, G, T. Porritt has an interesting note on Cymatophora ov. 
In The Entomologist’s Record for July-August (page 160), occurs the 
following account of some remarkable achievements of some Swiss butter- 
vies :—‘ On the 14th I took six Polyommatus amanda below St. Triphon 
Quarries, in the marsh on my bit of land there ; and yesterday five more, 
walking from St. Tviphon to Aigle Rhone Bridge by the canal (most were 
about half wav there).’ We have heard of rabbits barking, but this is the 
first record of a butterflies’ route march. 
Knowledge for July, publishes some excellent illustrations of insects 
and of plant structure, which show the very great perfection to which 
photography with the microscope has been brought. Some years ago, 
drawings had to be resorted to in order to bring out many of the details 
of the objects examined, but a great deal more now can be done by photo- 
graphy. Advantage is taken of colour-sensitive plates, and, in the instance 
to which we allude, of Wratten light filters also, which allow only rays of 
certain colours to reach the photographic plate. 
We notice that the Scunthorpe museum has secured the collection 
formed by the late Fred Brown of Scunthorpe. It includes many barbed 
and leaf-shaped arrow-heads, spear-heads, borers, drills, knives, etc., and 
a large series of beautifully worked ‘thumb-flints,’ or ‘ strike-a-lights,’ 
and scrapers. The‘ pygmy’ flints are well represented by several hundred 
typical specimens. There is also a large dagger of black flint from Manton 
Common ; several stone celts, some Roman glass beads, Roman pottery, 
and 17th century pipes, all found near Scunthorpe. 
1915 Aug. 1. 
