132 Notes and Comments. 
in large type, to a certain firms ‘ dog-biscuits, dry.’ (Similarly 
the prize for an ‘Eyes and No Eyes’ competition in the Country 
Side is divided amongst a number of successful competitors, 
who guessed the right tablet of Coal Tar Soap!). There is a 
list of the members of the B.E.N.A., but as we are informed that 
‘It must*be understood that this list is not accurate,’ we need 
not seriously consider it. In one Yorkshire town at any rate, 
‘all the members’ of one household are enjoying the benefits 
of the ‘B.E.A.N.S.,’ or whatever it is, and they represent six out 
of the seven for that town! 
AND NATURALIST MAGAZINES. 
Another advertising concern, which has already been referred 
to in these columns, the Waturalists’ Quarterly Review, bas 
reached its /#fti number, notwithstanding the fact that the 
nature of its contents is as Davis-Westellian as ever. Under 
‘A Few Notes on Nature’s Year,’ Mr. Westell gives some 
characteristic notes. We are told ‘to note the network of the 
bare trees, the robin sings again, rabbits become frolicsome, 
the song-thrush sings, February fill-dyke, earth-worms begin 
to move, beetles move, the mad March hare to be seen, and the 
woodpecker laughs.’ And no wonder! The same issue con- 
tains a lengthy notice of ‘Every Boy’s Book of Natural History,’ 
the writer of which apparently has a very different opinion of 
the merits of that work from that held by the writer of the 
review in our columns recently. 
A DEFORMED BELEMNITE. 
From time to time we have drawn attention to belemnite 
deformities, and have figured specimens from the chalk and 
from the Speeton Clay. Mr. C. G. Danford has favoured us 
Deformed Belemnites jaculum. 
with a further example, which is figured herewith. As will be 
seen from the tapering of the alveolar end, the species is Belem- 
nites jaculum, which is characteristic of bed C of the Neocomian 
clays at Speeton. It is nearly four inches long, and at the 
point of the guard is indented and twisted, obviously by damage 
or disease, during the life of the animal. 
Naturalist, 
