16 News from the Magazines. 
and in each case recorded only by a single observer ; one species 
in a hazel nut,* the other in the stomach of a water flea. ¢ 
Some of these organisms occur in the intestinal tract of insects, 
others have been found in the stomachs of animals. Many 
may be obtained from the rind of cheese, sauce, jams and other 
foods found in the household larder. At least one species is 
known to all; it is the common cell S. cerevisiae used by the 
professor of botany in ushering his pupils into the mysteries 
of cell life and structure, and, as is well known, is the yeast 
used in the production of beer and in the making of bread. 
These brief notes partake somewhat of the nature of a 
plea for recognition of the yeasts by enthusiastic workers 
amongst the fungi. Sufficient has been said to indicate the 
ubiquity of yeasts in nature and to point out that there is 
scope for the study of these lowly organisms from aspects 
other than those of purely economic utility. 
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The Entomologist’s’ Monthly Magazine for December contains two 
excellent coloured plates of exotic lepidoptera. 
An address to the Linnean Society on ‘ Minute Life on our Sea-beaches,’ 
by Prof. W. A..Herdman, is printed in Nature, No. 2248. 
Mr. S. E. Brock has an interesting paper on ‘ The Tufted Duck in the 
Nesting Season,’ in The Scottish Naturalist, for December: 
Among many interesting articles in part 20 of Cassell’s Nature Book® 
is a charmingly illustrated paper on Lakes and their Formation, by the late 
Joseph Lomas. : 
‘Two Crustaceous Brown Algae from the Danish West Indies,’ is the 
title of a paper by F. Boergesen, in English, appearing in La Nuova 
Notarisia, Serie XXIII., published at Modena, Italy. The species de- 
scribed and figured are Ralfsia expansa, and Aglaozonia canariensis. 
In an article on ‘ Birds and their fondness for Man,’ in The Animal 
World, No. 84, Mr. A. R. Horwood seriously tells us that a bird ‘ made its 
nest in a horse’s tail at Conference Hill, Blood River, during the Zulu 
campaign. The nest was discovered by a trooper in grooming his charge, 
and the fact was reported to the commanding officer.’ 
We regret to notice the announcement of the deaths of W. B. Teget- 
meier, aged 96, an authority on poultry, etc.; of R. H. Traquair, the 
zoologist and authority on fossil fishes, aged 72; of W. F. Kirby, entomologist 
and student of Folk-lore, aged 68; of W. R. Jeffrey, the entomologist, 
aged 76 years; of Sir George Darwin, the physicist, aged 67, (Sir George 
was the second son of Charles Darwin); and of Rowland Ward, author 
and taxidermist. 
After informing us that ‘the entire scientific world is in a remarkable 
state of ignorance with regard to flint,’ Sir E. Ray Lankester, in a recent 
issue of Nature, says ‘ by the word “ flint,’’ we understand the black- 
looking siliceous nodules which occur in the upper chalk of this country ’ ; 
that ‘itis clear . . . that the flint was deposited in cavities formed 
after the solidification of the chalk,’ and that ‘ the silica deposited as agate 
in trap rocks had probably a different origin from that of flint.’ 
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* Nematospora Coryli Peglion. 
} Wonospora cuspidata Metchnikoff. 
Naturalist, 
