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Bay in July, at Robin Hood’s Bay in August, at Carnelian Bay and 
Scarborough early in September. Not far from their egg-coils the sea- 
hares were discovered, both at Robin Hood’s Bay and at Scarborough, 
most of them bulky, measuring from five to six inches in length when 
extended. This is their first appearance on this coast since 1912, when 
shallow pools everywhere contained dozens of them, but of a much 
smaller size. 
Liicernaria campanulata, which was so abundant in 1913, is still 
conspicuous by its absence. Haliclystus octoradiatus, on the other hand, 
which predominated in 1913, reappeared in great numbers this year in 
June and July, and has since taken its departure. 
Particular attention was directed to two beautiful tentacular worms, 
Amphitrite johnstoni, and the luminescent Polycirrus aurantiacus , owing 
to the great frequency of their occurrence in soft mud between layers of 
soft sandstone. Almost every block of sandstone turned over disclosed 
their presence. — A. I. Burnley. 
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George Sheppard, Ph.D., writes on Coal-Mining by Steam-Shovel 
in Alberta, Canada, in The Transactions of the Institution of Mining 
Engineers, Vol. LXIL, Part 5. 
We learn from The Museums Journal that in spite of all protests the 
War Museum collections are to be removed to South Kensington where 
they will crowd, out many of the existing examples in the Science Museum. 
The Cleveland Technical Institute continues its useful monthly 
Bulletin containing abstracts of the most important scientific articles 
published bearing upon the particular subject in which its members are 
interested. 
We got a shock on looking at the cover of Man the- other day to 
find reference to a note on Two East Yorkshire Bronze Harpoons. We 
wondered what was coming next ; but upon looking inside it was merely 
the ‘ Maglemose.’ 
The Antiquaries’ Journal for October contains, among many other 
items, ‘ Notes on Early British Pottery,’ by E. T. Leeds ; ‘ The Age of 
Stonehenge,’ by T. Rice Holmes ; and ‘ Hallstatt Pottery from East- 
bourne,’ by Rev. W. Budgen. 
The'~ Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for November contains 
' Observations on the Life-History of a Liotheid (Mallophaga) Parasite 
of the Curlew,’ by James Waterston, and ‘ Drepanothrips reuteri Uzel : an 
Addition to the British Fauna/ by R. S. Bagnall. 
Dr. W. E. Collinge writes on ‘ The Economic Status of the Little 
Owl ’ ; A. H. Patterson on ‘ The Natter-jack Toad ’ ; ‘ The Crested Tit,’ 
by N. Gilroy ; ‘ Autumn Fungi,’ by H. Garnett ; and several shorter 
notes appear in N atureland for October. 
In The Entomologist for November, Mr. W. G. Sheldon gives par- 
ticulars of the Present Values of the Principal Works on the Palsearctic 
Lepidoptera, from his own experience as a collector. For some of 
the publications respecting which he is not quite definite with regard to 
prices, we would suggest that he would get reliable information from the 
lists issued by Wheldon and Wesley, Quaritch, and similar firms. 
The recent numbers of the Journal of the Linnean Society contain the 
following papers : ‘ The Pollination of the British Primulas,’ by M. 
Christy ; Spolia Runiaha : Summary of Results of Continuous Investi- 
gation of the Plankton of the Irish Sea during Fiften Years,’ by Sir 
William A. Herdman ; ‘ The Heleoplankton of three Berkshire Pools,’ 
by B. Millard ; ‘ The Raninidae : a Study in Carcinology, ’ by G. C. 
Bourne ; ‘ The Theory of Recapitulation : a Critical Re -statement of 
the Biogenetic Law,' by W. Garstang ; ‘ On the Terrestrial Isopod 
Eluma coelatum (Miers) —purpurascens , Budde-Lund, and ' On Two New 
Terrestrial Isopods from Madagascar,' by W. E. Collinge ; and ‘ On the 
Mouth-parts of the Shore Crab,’ by L. A. Borradaile. 
1922 Dec. 1 
