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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 



' Four Centuries of Legislation on Birds ' is the title of a paper by 

 Mr. W. G. Clarke in the June Antiquary. 



In ' Notes on Thysanoptera [Tuhnlifeva) new to the British Fauna ' 

 {Entoni. MontJily Mas;, for June), Mr. R. S. Bagnall describes Tricho- 

 thrips semiccBcus from Greatham, near Hartlepool. 



The County V Side's year-old child, Couiitvy Queries and Notes, has been 

 re-christened Science Gossip. The title nia\- be the title of Science Gossip, 

 but the voice is the voice of Country Ouerie-.-- and Notes. 



Mr. Bernard Hobson writes an interesting and well illustrated article 

 ' With the International Congress in Mexico,' in the number of The 

 Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society recently to hand. 



We learn from the Museums Journal that ]\Ir. Frederick Stubbs, of 

 Oldham, has been appointed to the restricted post of Curator in the Stepney 

 Borough ]\Iuseum. He is to M^ork under the direction of the Borough 

 Librarian, and be subordinate to that official. 



A child in a Lancashire school was a-iced what was meant by ' the 

 quick and the dead.' The answer was ' the quick is those who can get 

 out of the way of a motor car, and the dea is those that doesn't ! ' — York- 

 shire Ramblers' Club Journal. 



Mr. Percival Westell has turned spring poet, and in The Selborne Maga- 

 zine for April writes a poem, the first line of which is quite original : — 

 ' Hark ! to the joyous lark ! ' Probably his next poem will be ' Hark to 

 the Cuckoo ! 



The ' phrases ' of a Nightingale are given in a contemporary. One is 

 ' Sosososososososososo, czirhaying,' and another ' Sesesesesesesesesesesese, 

 coar o sze-oi.' The last one we heard giving forth ' phrases ' like that 

 ended up with ' rats ' ! 



In the Xew Phytologist for April, Mr. B. M. Griffiths describes two new 

 members of the Volvocaceae [Pyramimonas delicatulus sp. n. and Chlamy- 

 domonas sp. n (?) from near Kidderminster, and ^Nlr. A. W. Bartlett writes, 

 on ' An Abnormal gynoeceum in Stachys syh-atica Linn.' 



In the Quekett Club Journal for Ap/i . Messrs. E. Heron- Allen and 

 A. Earland have an important paper ' C/- a new species of Technitella 

 'T. thompsonf from the North Sea, with sov^.c- observations upon selective 

 power as exercised by certain species of ar-naceous foraminifera.' 



A writer in the February- Zoologist records that a Great Bustard ij^l 

 was shot at Cloughton, near Scarborough, last Christmas, by Mr. Bennett, 

 who ' took it home, and had it cooked instead of Turkey for Christmas 

 dinner.' In the ' Zoologist ' for March, Mr. \\. H. St. Quintin points out JH 

 that the ' Great Bustard ' turns out to be a female Silver Pheasant. ^^^k 



From the cover of The Country Side for May 8th we learn that ' It would ■ ^Kjk 

 be an insult to the intelligence of our readers ' to fill pages ' with disserta- " 

 tions upon such subjects as " Hov/ Plants Grow " or " The Development 

 of the Frog." ' On opening the paper the first article is found to be 

 entitled ' How Birds Fly ' ! In the same issue of this journal, which 

 ])rof esses to advocate the protection of birds, etc., is an advertisement : — 

 ' Will any reader who can procure a clutch of fresh Nightingale eggs 

 communicate,' etc. 



We notice the following modest statement in an article on Mendelism 

 m a contemporary. ' I have not read aa\^ of the work of the scientists 

 mentioned iBateson, Punnet, HurstJ . . . but :\Iendehsm seems to me 

 to be only an elaborate and precise enunciation of principles which I 

 have myself laid down in articles publisiicd at intervals during the last 

 twenty years. ... I see nothing in Mciideli^m wlhcli I have not been 

 saying for many years.' We need not sa)' who tlie writer is ; only one man 

 would write it. And oddly enougli liis v.ork does not receive the credit 

 he t'ihnks it should by any of the ' scientists ' quoted. In fact they do 

 not mention his name. 



3 JUL. 1909 



