268 Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies. 
Scirpus caespitosus L. and J uncus squarrosus L. 
A secondary endodermis around each bundle at the base of the 
peduncle. 
Eriophorum vaginatum L. 
A secondary endodermis around each bundle at the base of the 
peduncle and some evidence of a suberin lamella in a layer 
surrounding the whole central mass of bundles in the rhizome. 
Botanical Department, 
University of Leeds. 
REFERENCES. 
(1) Leathes, J. B., ‘ The Fats/ Monographs on Biochemistry, London, 
1910. 
(2) Priestley, J. H., ‘Suberin and Cutin/ New Phytologist, 20 pp., 
17-21, 1921. 
(3) Priestley, J. H., and Edith E. North., ‘ Physiological Studies in 
Plant Anatomy, III. The Structure of the Endodermis in Re- 
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: o : 
Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn favours us with his Fifty-third Annual 
Report of the American Museum of Natural History , which is a publication 
many British museums will envy, and has illustrations of several ex- 
hibits which British institutions might copy. 
The Report of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or 
Natural Beauty (75 pages) contains a record of the Trust’s properties, 
numbering nearly a hundred, in its charge ; and of the way in which 
funds for the Society’s laudable object are obtained. 
The Thirty -first Annual Report for the Royal Society for the Protection 
of Birds, including the Proceedings of Annual Meeting, 1922 (76 pp.), 
is an excellent record of the useful, work accomplished by this Society, 
work which is obviously appreciated judging from the enormous list of 
subscribers to the Society's funds. 
The Annual Reports and Balance Sheet of the Huddersfield Naturalist , 
etc., Society for 1919-1920 (16 pp., 6d.) is to hand, and contains C. 
Mosley’s Natural History Report, C. Wood’s Antiquarian Report, E. 
Fisher’s Report on Reptiles and Birds, C. Mosley's on Entomology, 
W. E. L. Wattam’s on Phanerogamic Botany, and T. W. Woodhead’s on 
Geology. 
The Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union for 1921 
contain the Rev. S. F. Alston’s Presidential Address on ‘ The Ash ' ; 
a notice of the death of Rev. F. L. Blathwayt, with portrait ; various 
reports on the year’s work by A. Smith, J. F. Musham, W. Wallace, 
H. C. Bee, W. S. Medli,cott, H. Preston, and F. Hind. There are also 
shorter notes. 
Under the title of The London Naturalist, the London Natural History 
Society has published its Journal for 1921 (80 pp., 3s.). It is largely 
occupied by a clever paper on ‘ Structural Abnormalities in Lepidoptera, ’ 
by E. A. Cockayne ; R. H. Fenton writes on ‘ The Cuckoo,’ and there 
are reports of the various sections of the Society’s work, all carefully 
written. The number is an unusually good one, and the abbreviated 
title will certainly be useful to Bibliographers. 
The Report and Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, 
Vol. LII., contains ‘Meteorological Observations in the Society’s District, ’ 
by E. Walford ; ‘ The Triassic Rocks of South Glamorgan,’ by F. F. 
Miskin ; The Leek: The National Emblem of Wales,’ by Eleanor 
Vachell ; ‘ Ornithological Notes,’ by G. C. S. Ingram and H. M. Salmon ; 
' Entomological Notes,’ by H. M. Hallett, together with reports of the 
various sections of the Society ’s work. 
Naturalist 
