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News from the Magazines. 
butions to science are ‘ Natural Selection.’ ‘ The Geographical 
Distribution of Animals,’ ‘ The Malay Archipelago,’ ‘ Travels 
on the Amazon,’ and only a few years ago, ‘ My Life,’ which 
was a magnificent record. 
GIFTS TO LEEDS UNIVERSITY. 
The University of Leeds has received, through Professor 
P. F. Kendall, an offer of two important and interesting gifts, 
and the University Council at their meeting recently accepted 
these gifts with pleasure. Mr. Godfrey Bingley, who has for a 
period of twenty years been actively connected with the 
Yorkshire Geological Society, presents a collection of lantern 
slides illustrating architecture, archeology, geology, and scenery 
in all parts of England, but especially in Yorkshire. There are 
roughly ten thousand slides of exquisite workmanship, and 
the whole collection is admirably arranged and catalogued. 
It is certainly one of the most interesting collections of lantern 
slides in existence, and that section which deals with the 
geological and geographical aspects of Yorkshire is unequalled. 
The second gift is froin an anonymous donor, and takes the 
form of a sum of £20 to be used for the purchase of the unique 
collection of fossils from the marine bands of the coal measures 
of Yorkshire, made by the late Air. Henry Culpin. of Doncaster. 
\Ve are delighted to find that these two collections have been 
secured for the county. 
Dr. Marie Stopes' inaugural lecture at the University College on 
‘ Pala:obotany : its past and its future,’ is printed in Nature, No. 2299. 
The chief items in the Irish Naturalist for December are * The Irish 
species of Petrobius ’ (Bristle-tails or Rock jumpers), by Prof. G. H. Car- 
penter, and an obituary notice of the late R. J. Ussher, by Mr. R. M. 
Barrington. 
In British Birds for December the Barred Warbler is recorded for 
Lincolnshire, and Mr. T. A. Coward points out that the Red Shelducks 
recorded for Cheshire had been bred by Lord Newton in Lime Park, and 
escaped. 
We are pleased to see that Part 9 of Mr. S. S. Buckman’s Yorkshire 
Type Ammonites has made its appearance, and deals with the following 
species : — Ammonites nativus, phillipsi, nitidus, fasciatus, peregrin us, 
crassoides, and vorticellus. 
In The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for December there arc two 
paragraphs written by Norman H. Joy. The first is headed ‘ Thinobius 
longicornis Joy : a Correction,’ in which he alters a name previously given, 
from longicornis to macroceros. The second is ‘ A anthohn us sitbslrigosus 
Joy : a Correction.’ In the latter he hastens to correct a bad mistake 
he made — ‘ the species I described as A*, substrigosus is therefore nothing 
more than Leptacinus batychrus Gyll.’ If this sort of thing goes on, our- 
J oy will be turned into sorrow 1 
Naturalist,. 
