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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
An alleged portrait of Gilbert White appears in The Selborne Magazine, 
for April. 
The Lancashive Naturalist (No. 60) contains a paper on Lancashire: 
Arthropods by Mr. A. R. Jackson. 
In Knowledge for April, Mr. C. D. Soar, F.L.S., whose work is well- 
known to our readers, has a paper on the Trombidoidea. 
Prof. C. J. Patten writes on ‘The Diurnal Migrations of certain 
Birds observed at the Tuscar Rock,’ in The Zoologist, for May. 
A scathing criticism of the new Hand List of British Birds appears 
in The Ibis, for January, from the pen of Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 
Dr. Winifred E. Brenchley has a paper on ‘ Yellow Rattle as a Weed on 
Arable Land,’ in the Jouvnal of the Board of Agriculture for March. 
In The Entomologist for May Mr. F. W. Frohawk gives ‘ The Life- 
history of Cenonympha tiphon,’ based on specimens from the Whitby 
moors, Kendal, etc, 
In The New Phytologist, for February, Mr. M. C. Rayner writes on 
“ The Ecology of Calluna vulgaris ’ ee Ling), based on observations in 
the South of England. 
In the Zoologist for March is a record of a Marten in Lincolnshire, 
killed so recently as oe: The same journal contains a Key to British 
Henleas, by the Rev. H. Friend. 
In The Ee Monthly Magazine for May, Dr. L. Lindinger 
describes Aspidiotus bavavicus Ldgr., a scale-insect new to the British 
list. It is recorded from Chester ‘and Aberdeen. 
The Ninetieth Report of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society 
contains an obituary notice of the late Thomas Newbitt, F.G.S., ‘ General 
Contrasts between the summers of 1911 and 1912,’ and ‘ The Thunder- 
storm of July 12th, 1912,’ the last being by Mr. J. W. Barry. 
Professor A. C, Seward, F.R.S., describes a British Fossil Selaginella 
(Selaginellites Dawsont, sp. nov., from the Fairlight Clay of Ecclesbourne, 
Sussex), in The New Phytologist for March, and in the same publication 
Dr. F. Cavers writes on Recent Work on Flagellata and Primitive Algz. 
Two curious words, withywinds and withershins, are explained by 
Mr. Harwood Brierley in Knowledge for May. Climbing plants which 
twist like the convolvulus in the direction of the hands of a watch, or in 
the direction of the sun, are withywinds, while the French bean, which 
chooses the opposite direction, is a true withershin. 
The final part, No. 25, of The Mineral Kingdom, by Dr. R. Brauns, 
Ps made its appearance, and this excellent work, translated by Mr. 
J. Spencer, of the Birtish Museum, should be in the hands of every 
en There are seventy-three coloured plates, which are as near 
perfect as is possible, and there are nearly three hundred text figures. 
The English publishers are Messrs. Williams and Norgate. 
In view of our remarks in a previous number, we are glad to notice 
that the ‘ Census Authentications,’ published in The Journal of Con- 
chology, are ‘based upon examples sent to the official authenticators.’ 
At the same time we think that these ‘ official authenticators,’ by whoever 
appointed, should be prepared to accept records made by as able workers 
as themselves. 
Messrs. L. E. Hope and D. L. Thorpe contribute their ‘ Natural History 
Bureau Records, 1912,’ to The Zoologist for April. And in the same 
publication Mr. C. Ingham gives a ‘ Description of a new form of Long- 
tailed Tit.’ The description occupies half-a-page, and there is no illus- 
tration. The ‘new form’ is based upon two dark coloured Portugese 
specimens in the British Museum, and the name given is 4 githalus caudatus 
taiti, sub. sp. n. 
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