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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



The Journal of the Board of Agriculture contains a paper on ' Sclerotinia 

 Diseases.' 



Mr. T. A. Chapman writes on ' The Genus Hesperia,' in The Entomo- 

 gist's Record for May. 



The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows writes on ' The British Psychides ' in 

 The Entomologist' s Record for April. 



An illustrated article on ' Leaf Spot of Celery ' appears in The Journal 

 of the Board of Agriculture for April. 



In The Irish Naturalist for May, the Rev. W. F. Johnson writes on 

 ' Lissonota basalis Brischke in Ireland, an addition to the Britannic List.' 



In Man for May, Dr. T. E. Nuttall writes on the Piltdown Skull, in 

 which he seems to take views intermediate between those of Dr. Smith 

 Woodward and Dr. Keith. 



In The Entomologist' s Monthly Magazine for May, Mr. James Waterston 

 writes ' On a New Species of Docophoroides Gigl. (Eurymetopus Tasch.) 

 from an Albatross (Diomedea melanophrys) ' ; and the specimen is figured. 



In The Geological Magazine for May, Mr. H. L. Hawkins writes on 

 ' The Sunken Tubercles of Discoides and Conulus,' and Dr. F. A. Bather 

 writes on ' The Base in the Camerate Manocyclic Crinoids.' In the latter, 

 Dr. Bather refers to his ' unforgiveable habit of offering up his own inter- 

 pretations of what he does not thoroughly understand in the works of 

 other authors.' 



Wild Life for April contains the following papers : — ' The Life Story 

 of the Liver-fluke,' by I. W. Lindsay; ' The Sparrow-Hawk at Home,' by 

 T. M. Fowler ; ' Birds, Insects and Crops,' by The R.S.P.B. ; ' Pertain- 

 ing to Common Buntings,' by E. E. Pettitt ; ' Notes on the Kestrel,' by 



E. Eykyn, and 'The Puss Moth.' The part is illustrated by 22 reproductions 

 from photographs. 



Referring to the note in The Naturalist for May (p. 176), to the effect 

 that the natural history collections at the University College, Nottingham, 

 were to be transferred to Bulwell Park, we are glad to learn that this is 

 not to be. Some such suggestion was certainly made, but was promptly 

 ' squashed ' by the City Council. The collections therefore remain under 

 the care of Prof. Carr. We obtained our information from the Museums 

 Journal, which we 'naturally assumed would be reliable. 



The Athenceum says ' We hope it will be recognised that men of science 

 have much to learn in the way of clear expression of their results.' To 

 this, Science Progress replies : ' Agreed ; and, while literary persons 

 invariably express themselves perfectly, we hope they will recognise that 

 they seldom have anything to express. It would be an excellent thing 

 if a literary man were to be appointed to every laboratory in order to attend 

 to the style of the investigator and, also, to learn the difference between 

 real and imaginary work.' 



In British Birds for April, 19 17, Mr. J. B. Nichols records a White's 

 Thrush shot in Sussex in December, 19 15, and 'seen in the flesh' by Mr. 



F. Lindsay ; another shot at St. Leonards on February 26th, 1916, and 

 was ' seen in the flesh ' by Mr. R. Butterfield. But why this delay in 

 recording such apparently important finds ? On page 296, Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney thinks that the Calander Lark from Devonport ' worthy of some 

 consideration ' (see Naturalist, April, page 146). The editor of British 

 Birds still maintains that although it was ' certified ' the bird was killed 

 by St. John's Lake, and was seen in the flesh by the taxidermist, he is 

 ' strongly of the opinion that such a record should not be accepted.' 

 Yet, on precisely similar evidence, he accepts new British records, from 

 Sussex, in British Birds. We should like to congratulate the editors of 

 British Birds on the completion of their first decade. 



Naturalist, 



