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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
The Archaeology of Yorkshire by Frank and Harriet Wragg: 
Elgee. Methuen, pp. xvi-272, with two maps and sixty illustrations, 
10/6. This volume is a very worthy addition to a useful series of County 
Archaeologies published under the general editorship of Mr. T. D. 
Kendrick, of the British Museum. The authors have compressed into' 
a comparatively small space a clear and connected account of the 
antiquities of Yorkshire down to those of Anglo-Viking times. The book 
is the only comprehensive one of its kind and although its style is quite 
appropriate to the general reader and enquiring tourist, the references, 
to detailed monographs, archaeological literature and other learned works, 
will render this account invaluable to the serious student. The illustra- 
tions are excellent . 
The high standard of Messrs. Methuen’s series of biological mono- 
graphs is fully maintained in the most recent of the series on Sex 
Determination , by Professor F . A . E . Crew . This is an authoritative 
and full summary of the relation between sex in plants and animals, 
and the chromosomal composition of the cells and gametes. It is 
thoroughly up to date and may be recommended to students in general 
and to those interested in problems of heredity. 
The Transactions of the Bose Research Institute, Calcutta 
(published by Longman’s) inaugurate with Vol. VII a wider series of 
researches than the well-known botanical ones. The papers deal with 
subjects such as fish-eating spiders, the capture of fish by drugging a 
stream, the locomotor paralysis of fish induced by various reagents, 
Burmese crania and the radio active character of springs. 
NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
We have received from Messrs. H. F. and G. Witherby a reprint of 
the various interesting articles appearing in British Birds on 1 The 
Great Crested Grebe Enquiry, 1931,’ by T. H. Harrison and P. A. D. 
Hollom, which is sold at the low price of half-a-crown. We feel sure 
many of our readers would like to have this record. 
The New Phytologist for December contains ‘ New and Little-known 
Alg?e from the Beds of Rivers,’ by R. W. Butcher ; ‘ Meiosis in 
Diploid and Triploid H emer oc alii s ,’ by S. O. S. Dark ; ‘ Experiments 
on the Perception of Gravity by Roots,’ by Lilian E. Hawker ; ‘ Frit- 
schiella, a New Terrestrial Member of the Chaetophoraceae,’ by M. O. P. 
Iyengar ; and ‘ Growth -regulators in Plants,' by R. Snow. 
The Fifty-fourth Annual Report of the Victoria Park Museum at 
St. Helens reads as under : — ‘ The most important additions to the 
Museum are a collection of 133 specimens of British Fossils, presented 
by A. Cecil Pilkington, Esq., and a Cormorant ( Phalacrocorax carbo ) 
shot at Thatto Heath Dam, St. Helens, October 4th, 1931, presented 
by Inspector Martin, N.S.P.C.A. The mineral specimens which formerly 
occupied small showcases in No. 2 room, have been removed and placed 
in a cabinet in the Hall, and the space thus vacated has been used for 
a large new showcase.’ 
NORTHERN NEWS. 
The Entomological Society of London completes the first hundred 
years of its existence on May 3rd, 1933, and will celebrate its centenary 
on that and the following day. A General Meeting of the Society for 
the reception of delegates and presentation of addresses will be held in 
the rooms of the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore. It will 
be followed by a scientific conversazione to which Fellows are invited 
to bring exhibits. 
The Naturalist 
