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News from the Magazines. 
Drifts/ only one boulder-clay, the f Chalky Boulder Clay/ 
which is placed by the authors above the Hoxne deposits, 
whereas, in the opinion of most geologists, they very clearly 
overlie it, and the ‘ Cave-earths of North Wales/ which are 
correlated with Scotch Valley glaciers, or the ‘ Lower Tur- 
barian ' of James Geikie, are, in the judgment of all recent 
workers in Glacial Geology, covered and, so to speak, sealed 
by deposits laid down by the great Ice Sheet which occupied 
the whole area of the Irish sea at a period very long anterior 
to the stage when its dwindled remnants had shrunk back into 
the minor valleys of the Scottish Highlands coincident ly with 
the formation of the Neolithic (50 feet) raised beach.* 
Other criticism of this column, and its relation to the 
others, might well be advanced, but the object of these com- 
ments is not to provoke controversy or to express a mere 
barren dissent from the views quoted by Mr. Peake, but 
rather to enforce his plea for a combined effort to place our 
conception of the relation of Man to the great climatic vicis- 
situdes of Pleistocene and later times in a clearer and more 
satisfactory light. 
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Dr. N. Annandale writes on ‘ Museums and Taxonomic Zoology ' in 
The Museums Journal for January. 
The Quarry for January contains an illustrated article on ‘ The 
Newcastle Grindstone Industry,’ by J. Rickerby. 
Mr. R. S. Bagnall records Dendrothrips ornatus Jabl., an addition to 
the British fauna, in Ent. Monthly Mag. for January. 
No. 690 of The Geological Magazine contains a paper on ' Brachiopods 
from the Magnesian Limestone of Durham,’ by Dr. C. T. Trechmann. 
The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist, published December 19th, 
contains further lengthy contributions on Plant Galls, and Muscineae, 
already noted in these pages. There is also a note on the possible Lan- 
cashire example of the Goldcrested Kinglet. 
Dr. W. E. Collinge writes on ‘ The Barn Owl ’ in The Journal of the 
Ministry of Agriculture for January. According to a diagram, the 
Barn Owl’s food consists of Mice and Rats, 68% ; House sparrows, etc., 
9% ; Shrews, 9% ; small birds, 4% ; Injurious insects, 7% ; the 
remainder being neutral insects.’ 
The Journal of Botany for January contains ‘ Notes on British Eu- 
phrasias,’ by H. W. Pugsley ; ‘ The Seedling Foliage of Ulex Galliif by 
T. A. Sprague ; ‘ Car ex forms by H. S. Thompson ; ' Noteworthy 
Fungi,’ by W. B. Grove ; and ‘ A New British Flowering Plant,’ by 
R. W. Butcher (reprinted from The Naturalist) , etc. 
In Nature for December 15th, referring to what are described as 
ice-knives, a writer says : ‘ At Edale Cross, 1750 feet above sea-level, 
the undamaged knives pointed their edges due east magnetic or directly 
to the centre of Sheffield. The intervening distance is more than sixteen 
miles, of which the first fourteen miles traverse some of the wildest 
moorland in England.’ It seems more or less appropriate that these 
‘ knives ’ should point that way ! 
* Since writing this, I have learned that the term ‘ Cave-earths of 
North Wales ’ is used by Prof. Marr to designate what Sir William 
Dawkins described as ‘Neolithic Caves ’ of North Wales, and not the 
true Cave -earths of Tremeirchion, Ffynnon Beuno, etc., which are of 
much earlier date. 
Naturalist 
