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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
Camping, the June issue of which has just appeared, still continues 
to cheer us. We wish we could find time to take part in some of the- 
pleasant rambles described. 
J. H. Priestley and Edith E. North continue their Physiological 
Studies in Plant Anatomy, and Walter Stiles his work on Permeability, 
in The New Phytologist for June. 
British Birds for June contains a paper ‘ On the White-billed Northern 
Diver as a British Bird,’ by H. F. Witherby ; "Recovery of Marked 
Birds,’ numerous valuable field records, etc. 
In adjoining paragraphs, The Publisher’s Circular announces the 
appearance of new issues of Thurston’s ‘ The Green Bough,’ and Frazer’s 
‘ The Golden Bough.’ Neither is botanical. 
An obituary notice, with portrait, of Henry Rowland -Brown , ‘ one 
of the best known and most popular of British Entomologists,’ appears 
in The Entomologist for June. In the same journal W. J. Lucas gives 
‘ Notes on British Odonata in 1921.’ 
A useful paper on ‘ The Determination of Lichens in the Field,’ by 
W. Watson ; an appreciation of the late E. A. Woodruff e -Peacock by the 
editor, James Britten ; a paper on ‘ Two Alchemillas new to Britain, ’ and 
other interesting items, appear in The Journal of Botany for June. 
The fourth part of The Nature Lover has appeared, and contains a 
Japanese Bird Study, The Wild Rose in Nature and Legend, Flowers in 
their Seasons., The House-fly, The Romance of the Whelk Shell, and 
Correspondence. None of the articles is signed, most of them quote 
poetry profusely. The editor is F. H. Shoosmith. , 
In describing ‘A Palaeolithic Flint ’ found at Earley {Berks., Bucks, 
and Oxon Archaeological Journal, p. 103), Mr. Hugh S. Spencer says : 
‘ A Palaeolithic implement in the British Museum, from near Great 
Gaddesden, Herts., is so similar in make and size that it appears to have- 
been made by the same man as the above specimen.’ 
The Journal of Botany contains among its varied contents : ‘ A New 
Variety of Orthodontium gracile Schwaegr.’ by W. Watson ; ‘ Further 
Notes on Elm Flowering,’ by Eleonora Armitage ; ‘New or Noteworthy 
Fungi,’ by W. B. Grove ; ‘ Notes on Charophytes/ by G. R. Bullock- 
Webster ; ‘ Note on a Moss in Amber,’ by H. N. Dixon. 
In The Entomologist’ s Monthly Magazine for June, Mr. G. T. Porritt 
contributes ‘ Critical Notes on the Hon. H. Onslow’s paper : Melanism 
in Abraxas grossulariata var. varleyata ’ ; F. V. Theobald describes 
•‘ An Aphid Genus and Species new to Britain ( Trilobaphis caricis ) ’ ; 
and A. E. Bradley refers to ‘ Variation in the genus Psithyris Lep. in 
the neighbourhood of Leeds.’ 
The Essex Naturalist, issued in March, contains the following : 
‘British Freshwater Planarians (' Tricladida ),’ by Henry Whitehead; 
‘ The Sparrow-hawk and the Goshawk in Litigation in the 12th and 13th 
Centuries,’ by Wm. E. Clegg ; ‘ Notes on the Occurrence of the British 
Trap-door Spider in Epping Forest,’ by H. Main ; and ‘ The Rosy- 
marbled Moth in Britain,’ by C. Nicholson, etc. 
The Geological Magazine for June contains a description of an enormous 
screw-like object from the Weald en, to which the name Dinocochlea 
ingens is given by Mr. B. B. Woodward, who considers it to be molluscan. 
It is over seven feet in length. On account of the difficulties which Mr. 
Woodward himself recognises, we feel sure Dinocochlea is not a shell, 
though, of course, it is necessary to describe and name it. Dr. Trueman 
has a useful paper on ‘ The Use of Gryphaea in the Correlation of the 
Lower Lias ’ ; the correspondence columns contain sledge-hammer blows 
at the Geological Society of London and one of its prominent members ; 
which, whether these are deserved or not, have given the journal an 
interest of quite a new character ! 
Naturalist 
