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West African Wasp’; ‘ The Classification of the Pierines’; * Pseudo- ~ 
hermaphrodite Examples of Daphnia pulex’; ‘A Mammal-like Milk ~ 
Dentition in a Cynodont Reptile’; ‘Across Southern Jubaland from the 
coast to Mount Kenia’; ‘A forward Canal Policy’; ‘A~Method of ex- 
ploring Sand Bars’; ‘The relative Age of the Tribes with patrilineal and 
matrilineal Descent in the South-East of Australia’; ‘Souling, Clement- 
ing, and Catterning: three November Customs of the Western Midlands’ » 
“The Evidence for the Custom of Killing the King in Ancient Egypt’; 
‘The Female Magician in Semitic Magic’; ‘Stone Boiling in the British 
Isles’; ‘The Absurdity of Psycho-physiological Parallelism even as a 
Hypothesis’; ‘ The Relation of the Weight of the Kidneys to the Total 
Weight in Cats’; ‘A New Theory of Laughter’; ‘ The Analysis of some 
Personal Dreams, with special reference to Current Theories of Dream 
Interpretation’; ‘ Histology of the Leptoids in Polytrichum’ ; ‘ Observa- 
tions on the Centripetal and Centrifugal Xylem in the Petioles of Cycads’; | 
‘The Need of a Common Alphabet for the Vernacular Languages in 
India’; ‘ Further Observations on the Fungicidal Action of Bordeau 
Mixture’; ‘The value conferred on Dung by Cake Feeding’; ‘The Effect 
of Reproductive Cycle on Glycogen and Fat Metabolism in Crustacea,’ 
NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
Mr. E. B. Dunlop writes ‘On incubation’ in British Pirds for Sep- 
tember. 
Deiopeia pulchella is recorded for Derbyshire, in The Entomologist for 
September. ti 
A fine tooth of an elephant is illustrated. in The Sphere for August 30th, 
as ‘An Ancient Rhinoceros tooth found near Ealing.’ 
Among the more important additions to the Ipswich’ Museum, recorded 
in its Siaty-Fourth Annual Report, we notice the Miss Nina F. Layard 
collection of local antiquities, and the J. Reid Moir collection of worked 
flints. 
““* White-Heacs’ or ‘ Take-All’ of Wheat and Oats (Ophiobolus 
gramints Sacc.),”’ is the title of Leaflet No. 273 which can be obtained free 
on application to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 4 Whitehall 
Place, S.W. 
The New Phytologist, “‘ol. 12, Double Number, Nos. 4 and 5, contains 
a lengthy paper by Mr- «V. B. Crump on ‘ The Co-efficient of Humidity : 
a new method of expressing the soil moisture,’ which has already been 
referred to in these columns. 
Mr. A. Smith has issued a General Guide to the Lincoln Museum (16 
pages, one penny) in which he once more appeals for specimens for the 
collection. A well known Lincolnshire napiiieist will hardly recognise his 
name therein as Percock. 
A paper by Mr. Tor Helliesen on Chrysomela sanguinolenta L, and its 
allies, written in Esperanto, has been published in the ‘ Aarshejte.’ of 
the Stavanger Museum. A writer in the Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 
asks whether papers of this kind, written in Esperanto , should be recog- 
nised. 
The Report of the Director and Librarian of the County Borough of 
Warrington, Museum Committee, for the past year is a record of steady 
progress, many of the additions being of especial local value. As a frontis- 
piece to the report is a view in one of the rooms, though we sincerely 
trust that the two venerable old gentlemen, whose portraits appear at 
the end of the room, are labelled ‘ Wild Flowers’ in mistake ! 
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