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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
Dr. A. Londsborough Thomson writes on ‘ The Migration of British 
'Swallows ’ in Nature for March 16th. 
J. H. Gurney contributes his 28th Annual ‘ Ornithological Notes 
drom Norfolk ' to British Birds for May. 
' Is the Squirrel a native Irish species ? ’ is the title of a paper by 
R. F. Scharff in The Irish Naturalist for May. 
Messrs. Bagnall and Harrison continue their studies in ‘New British 
-Cecidomyiidae,’ in The Entomologist’s Record for April. 
Conquest for May refers to Giant Bridges, Burglar -proof Rooms, The 
Winter Sleep of Animals, and several other topical subjects. 
‘ The Characteristics of Living Creatures/ and ‘ The Romance of 
Chemistry/ appear in the well-illustrated Romance of Science, part 13. 
No. 9 of The Outline of Science has a fine paper on the Nesting Habits 
of Birds, and a chapter on Mammals, both of which are well illustrated. 
Part 12 of The Outline of Science (G. Newnes, Ltd., 1/2 net) contains 
* Biology and the Beginning of Life/ by Julian Huxley, and other 
interesting matter, well illustrated. 
Dr. G. Enderlein writes on ‘ A Scaly -winged Psodid, new to Science, 
discovered in Britain ; and a New Fungus-feeding Gall-Midge/ by F. W. 
Edwards, appear in The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for May. 
The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist, published April 24th, is full 
of valuable papers on Botany, Birds, Crustaceans, Lepidoptera, Hemip- 
tera, Myriopoda, Isopoda, Diptera and Hymenoptera of the counties 
covered by the title. 
Dr. A. Smith Woodward writes on ‘ The Problem of the Rhodesian 
Fossil Man ’ ; Sir James G. Frazer on ‘ The Scope and Method of Mental 
Anthropology’ ; and A. G. Thacker on ‘The Geological History of the 
Primates,’ in Science Progress for April. 
In The Geological Magazine for April, Dr. F. L. Kitchen and Mr. J. 
Pringle write on ‘The Overlap of the Upper Gault in England,’ and 
on ‘The Red Chalk ’ of the Eastern Counties. There are also records of 
Rhomb -porphyry and Laurvikite near Ellon, Aberdeenshire. 
‘The Blue Diamond Mystery,’ by R. A. Freeman in Pearson’s 
Magazine, for May, 1922, is solved by the villain picking up a specimen 
of Clausilia biplicata and the detective being able to recognise the snail, 
and knowing from it that the man must have been at Hammersmith ! 
The New Phytologist for April contains, among others, the following : 
‘ Physiological Studies in Plant Anatomy,’ by J. H. Priestley ; ‘ The 
Physiological Relation of the Surrounding Tissue to the Xylem and its 
Contents,’ by J. H. Priestley and Dorothy Armstead ; and ‘ A Critical 
Study of Certain Unicellular Cyanophyceae, from the point of view of 
their Evolution,’ by W. B. Crow. 
In The Geological Magazine for March, Prof. P. F. Kendall severely 
criticises a paper on English Eskers by Dr. J. W. Gregory ; Mr. G. W. 
Lamplugh does not quite agree with Drs. Trechmann and Woolacott’s 
conclusions with ' regard to the raised beach at Easington (Durham); 
Mr. L. M. Parsons continues his notes on Dolomitization in the Carboni- 
ferous Limestone of the Midlands ; and Mr. C. Edwards concludes his 
notes on the Carboniferous Limestone Series of West Cumberland. 
The Journal of Ecology , Vol. IX., No. 2, edited for the British Ecolog- 
ical Society by A. G, Tansley, is particularly well produced and contains 
some remarkable memoirs, most of which are well illustrated. Among 
them are ‘ The Woodlands of Ditcham Park, Hampshire (Studies of the 
Vegetation of the English Chalk),' by R. S. Adamson ; ‘ Stratification 
and Hydrogen -Ion Concentration of the Soil in Relation to Leaching and 
Plant Succession, with special reference to Woodlands,’ by E. J. 
Salisbury ; ‘ A Suggestion as to Factors influencing the Distribution of 
Free-floating Vegetation,’ by W. H. Pearsall ; ‘ On the Mycorrhizas of 
Pinus silvestris L., and Picea abies Karst. : a Preliminary Note,’ by 
E. Melin. 
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