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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
Another alleged portrait of Gilbert White is reproduced in The Selborne 
Magazine for August. 
In The Zoologist for August, Mr. R. S. Bagnall describes Lithobius 
duboscqui, Brdlemann, a centipede new to the British fauna. It is recorded 
for Durham, Oxford and Manchester. 
‘ Andrena spreta, Pér., by a lapsus calami recorded by me as A. schen- 
bella, Pér., is the A. niveata, Saund., nec.Friese.’ (Dr. R. C. L. Perkins 
in The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for August.) 
Mr. Alfred Cresswell’s useful Records of Meteorological Observations 
taken at the Observatory, Edgbaston, 1912, have recently been issued by 
the Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific Society, at two shillings. 
In a paper on new species of Lema in The Entomologist for August, 
Mr. F. W. Bowditch describes Lema sheppardi and several species of 
Crioceris, which have a geological appearance so far as the names are 
concerned. 
In The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for August Mr. F. H. Day 
records Dyschirius angustatus Putz. in Cumberland, originally found near 
Lanercost Abbey, Cumberland (not Northumberland, as stated by Fowler) 
and brought forward by Dawson as a novelty under the name of jejyunus ! 
The recent Annual Report of the Ruskin Museum, Sheffield, shows a 
decrease of 1,154 visitors, ‘due in a large measure to the exceptional 
inclemency of the summer season of 1912, and also to the increased counter 
attractions of the popular entertainment character that have during the 
last few years, developed to such an enormous extent.’ 
The Seventy-ninth Annual Report of the Bootham School Natural 
History, etc., Soctety', has had even more care than usual exercised in its 
preparation. There are satisfactory reports under the heads of Archz- 
ology, Botany, Conchology, Entomology, Ornithology, ‘ Pets,’ and Micro- 
scopy. Apparently Geology has not been attractive this year. 
Besides the paper on Foraminifera, referred to in another column, 
the Journal of the Quekett Club (No. 72) contains Notes on some Discoid 
Diatoms, by Mr. W. M. Bale; British Freshwater Rhabdocoelida, by 
Mr. H. Whitehead; Rotifers of Devil’s Lake, by Mr. C. F. Rousselet ; 
Five New Species of Bdelloid Rotifera, by Mr. D. Bryce, and the President’s 
Address, on By-Products of Organic Evolution, by Dr. A. Dendy. There 
are also shorter notes. 
We should like to congratulate the Viking Society and its editor upon 
the extraordinarily interesting and valuable character of Volume IV. of 
its Year Book, copies of which can be obtained from the University of 
London for half-a-crown. Nothing of moment bearing upon northern 
research appears to have escaped the eye of the editor, who has the ability 
to present the results of such research, no matter in what language pub- 
lished, in a simple and readable form. : 
In Mr. Mosley’s monthly miscellany he refers to a recent critic (quite 
possibly The Naturalist) objecting to the first part of a new publication 
being styled Vol. 12. He states ‘therefore, when a woman marries, or 
when Mr. Lubbock became Sir John, or when Sir John became Lord 
Avebury, they ought to have been born again.’ We leave our readers 
to trace any connection ; but better be born again than be cut to bits and 
served up as a variously numbered, dismembered and disconnected hash. 
In his will the late Sir Jonathan Hutchinson left the following directions 
regarding his museums at Selby, Haslemere, and Chenies Street, London : 
‘I leave the three museums at Haslemere, Selby, and 22 Chenies Street, 
and their contents to my trustees upon trust to dispose of the same as 
they in their own absolute discretion shall think best, but my desire is that, 
without imposing any trust upon my said trustees, they shall dispose 
of my said museums and of their contents in accordance with my wishes 
expressed to them during my life.’ ; 
Naturalist, 
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