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News from the Magazines. 
Ammonites fabalis Simpson, from the Lias at Whitby, and an interest- 
ing series of Kelloways ammonites, occur in Buckman’s Type Ammonites , 
Part XXIX . 
In No. 307 of The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Prof. W. 
J. Sollas has a paper on Saccammina carteri Brady, and the Structure of 
the Foraminiferal Shell, based largely upon Northumberland material. 
Mr. R. Gurney favours us with an admirable and well illustrated paper 
by W. G. Clarke and himself on the ‘ Genus Utricularia and its Distri- 
bution in Norfolk, reprinted from the Transactions of the Norfolk and 
Norwich Naturalists’ Society , 
A somewhat unusual note on ‘ Museum Limits ’ appears in The 
Museums Journal for December. The writer thereof refers to ' the 
habit of mind of a Museum Keeper,’ and, later, ‘ will be prepared to 
hear same connoisseur holding up his hands in horror.’ 
The Scottish Naturalist, No. 117, contains a continuation of the 
report on Scottish Ornithology in 1920 ; Notes on Winter Occurrence 
of the Common Tern in Scotland by W. E. Collinge, and Hemiptera 
from Arran, by E. A. Butler, as well as many shorter notes. 
Among the contents of The V asculum for October, we notice ‘ The 
Purpose of the Roman Wall,’ by R. G. Collingwood ; ‘ Medical Entomo- 
logy,’ by A. D. Peacock ; ‘ Eel -worm Galls,’ by R. S. Bagnall ; ‘ Fluor- 
spar,’ by J . A. Smythe, and an obituary notice of the late John Gardner. 
The July-October number of f Bibliotheca Sacra ’ (Oberlin, Ohio) 
contains a number of memoirs by different members relating to the work 
of the late George Frederick Wright, who for many years has acted as 
Editor of that publication . An excellent portrait appears as frontispiece. 
H. F. Witherby writes ‘ On the British -taken Examples of the " Le- 
vantine ” Shearwater,’ in British Birds for December. He considers 
that of the 28 specimens recorded in Britain, 12 of those he has seen are 
referable to Puffinus mauretanicus and not to P. yelkouan ; five others 
of which he has received descriptions (including birds in the Hull Museum) 
are also clearly mauretanicus . 
An urgent appeal is issued to the subscribers of The Irish Naturalist 
to suggest means whereby the Journal may be carried on, as at present 
a considerable sum of money is lost annually, although every effort is 
made to cut down expenses. The November issue of the Journal contains 
a note on ‘ Nests of the Ant Stenamma westwoodi , discovered in Ireland/ 
by R. A. Phillips, and ‘ The Earliest Irish Zoologist,’ by R. F. Scharff. 
The Oologists’ Record, anew quarterly, edited by Kenneth L. Skinner, 
has made its appearance. In the three parts already issued, there are 
papers devoted to egg-collecting, etc., in East Africa, the Western Front, 
Palestine, etc., with an occasional note relating to Britain, the most 
interesting being in the September issue on ‘ A remarkable Cuckoo Coin- 
cidence,’ by G. J. Scholey. We don’t anticipate that there will be a 
sufficient demand to make The Oologists’ Record a large one ! 
The Lancashire and Cheshire N aturalist for September-October, 
published, according to the wrapper, on December 2nd, was probably 
issued somewhere about December 26th, as, in the first note, the Editors 
refer to the Studies of the Arctic Fern in South Lancashire, as compared 
with the Common Ferns, and as the word occurs four times in half a 
dozen lines, it can hardly be a misprint. What are Arctic Ferns and 
Common Ferns ? 
In The Annals and Magazine of Natural History for December, Messrs. 
G. K. Gude and B. B. Woodward give ‘Some Emendations to their 
Recent Paper ‘ On Helicella Ferussac.’ They conclude : ‘ Despite the 
yet further complication introduced by Gray in 1847, when he made 
“ Trachidea [sic], Brown, 1827,” a sub-genus of Theba, and cited as 
type “ Helix elegans,” we consider that Brown’s Trachoidea cannot be 
taken to refer definitely to either H . fulva, or H . elegans, and should 
be allowed to disappear from molluscan literature.’ 
Naturalist 
