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given of different types of plants are very well chosen. The British 
reader may notice the absence of any strictly ecological chapter, but the 
chapters on physiology and heredity are quite adequate and well con- 
ceived. A most noteworthy feature of the book is the quality of the 
text figures. These are remarkably comprehensive and particularly 
clear and the book may be highly recommended for the utility of these 
alone. The form is excellent and the cover is waterproof and vermin- 
proof — another notable feature in an ably -planned production. 
NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
The Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society , 
Volume XLVI, contain an excellent portrait of the late Sir William 
Boyd Dawkins. 
The Yorkshire Architectural and York Archceological Society has issued 
the first part of its Proceedings, which are largely occupied by an 
illustrated description of the Roman Bath recently discovered at the 
Mail Coach Inn, St. Sampton’s Square, York, by Philip Corder. 
Bulletin No. 62 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (H.M. 
Stationery Office, 1/6, postage extra), is an account of the details and 
problems of commercial bulb production, which will prove useful to 
anyone interested in the varieties and methods of growing this type of 
plant. 
We see from The West Australian for July 12th, that Mr. L. Glauert 
has been elected President of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 
Our older readers will remember Mr. Glauert as a keen amateur geologist 
at Sheffield. He left England to join the Geological Survey of West 
Australia . 
A well-illustrated account of the Saxon cemetery at Guildown by 
A. W. G. Lowther appears in The Surrey Archceological Collections, 
Volume XXXIX. It gives an account of the excavations of over 200 
graves, which is particularly interesting to our readers, as many of the 
relics excavated are very similar to those found in the north. 
Bones of Bos longifrons , small Celtic sheep, pig, fowl, and red 
deer are recorded on the Roman Site at Heronbridge, in The Journal of 
the Chester and North Wales Architectural, Archceological and Historic 
Society, recently issued. This publication is entirely occupied by 
illustrations and descriptions of the Roman remains found there. 
In Archceologia Aeliana, Volume VIII, Dr. A. Raistrick has a paper 
on Bronze Age Settlements of the North of England, with many maps. 
The same author writes on Excavation of a Cave at Bishop Middleham, 
Durham, in Volume X of the same publication, and there are interesting 
notes on Early Bronze Sw T ords, and cup-marked rocks in the same journal. 
In the Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany), No. 329, Dr. D. H. 
Scott and Professor H. S. Holden describe the vegetative organs of 
Scolecopteris oliveri. Professor M. O. P. Iyengar describes the colonial 
volvocales of South India ; giving diagnoses of a number of new species 
and varieties. Miss E. D. Brain gives the results of a study of geotropism 
in three species of Lupinus. 
From Mr. Hans Schlesch, whose important concho logical collections 
are in the Museum at Hull, we have received two papers, namely, Nachruf 
an Professor Dr. Baron Geza Gyula Fejervary de Komlos-Keresztes, and 
Kleine Mitteilungen IX. The latter contains illustrations of an enormous 
number of deformities and monstrosities in land and freshwater mollusca, 
a subject in which Mr. Schlesch has specialized. 
The Entomologists' Record for July /August contains ‘ The Larval 
Period of Aegeria apiformis ,’ by E. A. Cockayne ; ‘ Noctuae in 1932,’ by 
A. J. Wightman ; ‘ Donegal in August/ by Rev. Canon G. Foster; 
' Lepidoptera at Maurin,’ by A. E. Burras, W. P. Curtis and W. 
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