Nezvs from the Magazines. 363 



each case found to be perfectly fresli microcline, the cross- 

 hatching being beautiful^ clear. Pieces of pegmatite, the 

 constituents being quartz and microcline, are very common 

 in all the beds, but most abundant in the Kinderscout Grit and 

 Rough Rock. Some fragments obtained from the Plompton 

 Grit at Knaresborough proved to be a peculiar silicified oolitic 

 rock, the outlines of the oolitic grains being traced out by small 

 rounded bodies stained red or brown. A few pebbles show 

 imdoubted traces of organisms such as sponge spicules, etc. 



The heavy minerals of the grit are not numerous, the most 

 plentiful being zircon and garnet. The felspars in the grit, 

 both large and small, are quite fresh when first exposed, and 

 this suggests either disintegration of the parent rock by differ- 

 ences of temperature and rapid transportation, or comparative 

 absence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The author has 

 been much impressed by the many points of similarity existing 

 between the Millstone Grit and the Torridon Sandstone, and 

 is disposed to think that areas of similar rock types were laid 

 under contribution for each. 



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A portrait and obituary notice of the late Robert Shelford, appear in 

 The Entomologist's Record, Vol. XXIV, No. 9. 



Mr. W. Lower Carter gives an admirable account of the ' Geology at 

 the British Association ' in Nature, for October 17th. 



The Hull Literary Club Magazine, just issued, contains a charming 

 address on ' The appreciation of Nature," by the late R. H. Philip; one 

 of the last papers that he wrote. 



Mr. Claude Morley gives a brief account of an insect-collecting trip 

 to Lincolnshire recently, when a week's ' bag ' contained eighteen hundred 

 specimens. {The Entomologist, No. 592). 



As a new variety of Parnassia palustris (var. condensata), described in 

 the Journal of Botany, is not figured in that publication, an illustration 

 and brief description appears in the Lancashire Naturalist (No. 53). 



In The Zoologist (No. 855), Mr. Riley Fortune points out that formerly 

 it was a common thing in Yorkshire to see starlings perched on the backs 

 of sheep, etc., but that the habit is not so prevalent nowadays. 



Unless it is a misprint, we are not quite sure of the meaning of a reference 

 in the Lancashire Natuvalist (p. 191) to ' the seige of the brain cavity,' 

 and in the same paragraph a prominent Zoologist is referred to as ' Lyd- 

 diker.' 



In The Entomologist's Record for October, is figured and described 

 'A Gynandromorphous specimen' of Amorfyha populi h., that is to say, 

 one half of the moth presents all the characters of the male, and the other 

 half, the characters of the female. 



In addition to an admirable report on ' Scottish INIarine Fisheries, 

 1S98-1912,' by Prof. Mcintosh, we found the following piece of ' poetry ' 

 in the October Zoologist, which, we will admit, was a little unexpected ! — - 

 ' And now, me bhoy, hould up yer head 



And look like a gentleman, sor ; 

 And tell me where Suleskerry is. 



You can tell me if you'll tr}^ sor : 

 O, there niwer wasn't no such place, 

 And its all a bluidy loi, sor.' 



1912 Dec I. 



