News, from the Magazines. 
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‘CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS NUMBER.’ 
Under the above heading our contemporary, Discovery, for December, 
occupies some space in drawing attention to the importance and achieve- 
ments of its contributors. Possibly we may be pardoned for following 
this good example ? : — 
‘ Ed,’ whose identity we are requested not to divulge, is a well-known 
expert on ‘ water ’ and its dilutants, makes his pen his spear, and is the 
author of ‘ Correct Arms 
Chris. A. Treatam : Suffers peat gladly, writes on Diptera and Hemip- 
tera, is a Bachelor of some degree. Spends his summer in. exploring the 
wilds of Austwick, where he has been seen to fold up his tent and silently 
steal away. Authority on ‘ Work for Young Naturalists.’ 
T. Peppered : A regular contributor and never particular as to his 
subject or object. Born on a farm in Lincolnshire, he' has therefore 
a practical as well as a theoretical knowledge of agriculture. Reached 
Yorkshire soon after, and is therefore often mistaken for a Yorkshireman. 
Was made M.Sc. by the Leeds University for his studies in ‘ honoris 
causa,’ a subject he has made particularly his own. Author of various 
works in the ‘ Lost ’ series. 
H. B. Smooth : Rough on egg-collectors ; authority on Swallows 
and wool — not the author of ‘ Kittens in Jumpers.’ Has just vacated a 
chair in favour of a botanist. 
Correction : We regret that the ‘ Books Recommended ’ last month 
should have been ‘ Books not recommended.’ 
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There is a particularly fine series of ‘ Field Notes ’ in The Entomologist 
for December. 
A. Sich writes on the ‘ Early stages of Coleophora ornatipennella , Hb. 
in The Entomologist’ s Record for November. 
Discovery , No. 23, informs us that ‘ it is common for Swiss girls both 
to produce and to cure warts by autosuggestion . ’ 
F. Raw occupies four pages of The Geological Magazine (No. 689) 
in describing a mammoth tooth found near Stroud. 
K. Wilson contributes a ‘ Catalogue of Local Coleoptera ’ to the 
Transactions and Journal of the Eastbourne Natural History Society, No. 32. 
No. 690 of The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine contains, among 
many other items, A Saprosites (? parallelus) in Britain; and Ips 
( Tomicus ) erosus in Britain. 
The Revue de Geologie for November contains 52 closely printed pages 
of summaries of geological memoirs, including a quaint notice of Buck- 
man’s Type Ammonites, by M. Cossmann. 
Baron G. J . de Fejervary gives ‘ Contributions to a Monography on 
fossil Varanidae and on Megalanidae ’ (in English) , in Annales Musei 
Nationalis Hungarici, Vol. XVI., recently to hand. 
In The Quarry, J. V. Elsden and J. A. Howe have a series of articles 
on ‘ The Stones of London,’ in which many north country rocks, used in 
the erection of buildings in London, are described in detail. 
Among the contents of The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. IX., part 2 
are ‘The Agricolan Occupation of North Britain,’ by G. MacDonald, 
and ‘ Roman Colchester,’ by R. E. M. Wheeler and P. G. Laver. 
Much of The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist, Vol. XIV., No. 2, 
is occupied by a paper on ‘ Plant Galls of Cheshire,’ by A. A. Dallman, 
and the continuation of the ‘ Muscineae of the Wirral,’ by W. A. Lee 
and W: G. Travis. 
W. Rowan gives ‘ Observations on the Breeding-Habits of. the 
Merlin,’ with photographic illustrations, in British Birds for November. 
His observations were made on the moors near Skipton. The same 
journal contains ‘ The Sequence of Plumages in some Palsearctic Surface- 
feeding Ducks,’ by E. L. Schioler. 
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