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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES 



Dr. R. S. INIacDougall has an illustrated article on ' Mustard Beetles,' 

 in The Journal of the Board of Agricitlttire for March. 



Part 3 of Cassell's Nature Book contains a magnificent reproduction, 

 in colours, of MacWhirter's ' June in the Austrian Tyrol.' 



A specimen of Rudolphi's Rorqual was washed up on the beach on the 

 Northumberland coast early in February. — Zoologist, No. 849. 



The New Phytologist for March contains an able and well-illustrated 

 paper on ' The Shingle Beach as a Plant Habitat,' by Prof. F. \V. Oliver. 



After describing in detail the ' observed fall of an aerolite ' near St. 

 Albans, in Nature, the writer of the note submitted the specimen to the 

 British Museum, and it turns out that the stone is not of meteoric origin. 



A Black-tailed Godwit was shot near Spurn on February 3rd (British 

 Birds,. A-pri\). The same journal records that a nestling black-headed 

 gull, ringed at Egton, Yorkshire, in July 191 1, was recovered on the island 

 of Flores, in the Azores, in February 1912. 



Part II. of Cassell's Nature Book contains an article on ' The Delights 

 of the Garden," by Mr. H. H. Thomas, which is illustrated by photographs 

 of some Yorkshire gardens. There are excellent photographs of ' woolly 

 bears,' and tiger moths, birds, daisies, field mice, etc. 



The deaths of two geologists, both of whom had handed their collec- 

 tions over to the Manchester Museum, are recorded in the Geological 

 Magazine for April. Two other geologists who have recently handed 

 over their collections to a well-known Yorkshire Museum are still alive. 

 Verb. sap. 



The Library Circular issued by the Sunderland Public Libraries, con- 

 tains a plate illustrating local pre-historic remains recently' added to the 

 Museum. We are surprised to find that this usually up-to-date library 

 has not a copy of Mortimer's ' Forty Years' Researches ' amongst its books 

 dealing with pre-historic man. 



Part VIII. of The Micrologist completes the first volume. It contains 

 an admirable plate of photo-micrographs of larva^, etc. Mr. Abraham 

 Flatters contributes an article on Vermes, etc. ; Mr. Herbert Womersley 

 writes on Terpineol, a New Clearing Agent ; and ]\Ir. G. A. McKechnie 

 has a note on Mounting Museum Specimens of Insects as Microscopical 

 Slides. (Manchester, 1/6 net). 



In The Museums Journal for April, Messrs. Crouch, Butler and Savage, 

 have an illustrated article on ' The New Library and Art Gallery, Man- 

 chester,' from which we gather that 223 designs were submitted for the 

 building. Oddly enough, we are informed that the successful competitors 

 were Messrs. Crouch, Butler and Savage. In the same journal Dr. F. A. 

 Bather has an article on the new London museum. 



We have received No. 6 of the Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist, 

 which is an unusually good number. (Burfield & Pennells, Hastings, 2/-) 

 Mr. W. E. Nicholson has an excellent memoir on the Hepatics of Sussex, 

 which is well illustrated, the plate of Cephcdozia macrantha Kaal. and 

 Nicholson, being particularly fine. Mr. T. Parkin writes on Beauport and 

 its Rookery, and also gives an account of a Sussex Shooting-Decoy. The 

 Rev. E. N. Bloomfield gives a list of ' Sussex Fungi, Part i. Supplement,' 

 and also contributes notes on the local fauna and flora. There is a reprint 

 of a note on a ' New British Bird,' from another paper, in the pages of 

 which we think it might have been allowed to remain. 



1912 May I. 



