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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
JUBILEE NUMBERS. 
The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for June is a special 
Jubilee Number and contains an interesting account of the 
work of this valuable journal. As a frontispiece are admir- 
able portraits of its past editors, viz., Thomas Blackburn, H. G 
Knaggs, R. Mclachlan, E. C. Rye, H. T. Stainton, J. W. 
Douglas. C. G. Barrett and E. Saunders. The following 
details are given of the additions to the British insect fauna 
recorded in the magazine between June 1864 and May of the 
present year : — Coleoptera, 601 species ; Diptera, 1121 ; 
Euplexoptera, 3 ; Hemiptera, 166 ; Homoptera, 317 ; Hymen- 
optera, 446 ; Lepidoptera, 218 ; Neuroptera, 79 ; Orthoptera, 
3 ; Siphonaptera, 11 ; Thysanoptera, 27 ; Total 2,992 species, 
which is ample evidence of the many achievements of this 
well-known magazine. 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
The June number of this journal is the 600th number, 
and completes its 50 years’ existence. During the whole of 
that period the editor-in-chief. Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., 
has conducted practically every issue. Such a record is 
surely absolutely unique in the history of scientific literature, 
and we should like to tender to Dr. Woodward our sincere 
congratulations on the extraordinary success he has achieved. 
The value of his magazine to geological science is far greater 
than can possibly be realised, and its unique excellence has 
been maintained almost entirely through the assiduity of its 
editor. We should like to extend to him and to his journal 
every good wish for long life and prosperity. It is interesting 
to record that of the original contributors to the first volume 
in 1864, there still remain among us the Rev. Osmund Fisher, 
Sir Archibald Geikie, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, and Pro- 
fessor E. Hull, letters from each of whom appear in the 600th 
number. 
MARVELS OF INSECT LIFE. 
Under the general editorship of Mr. Edward Step, Messrs. 
Hutchinson & Co. are issuing a new publication in 24 parts at 
7d. each, entitled ‘ Marvels of Insect Life.’ This is profusely 
illustrated by coloured plates and numerous illustrations in 
the text, and if subsequent parts keep up the standard of No. 
1, it will unquestionably form one of the most popular volumes 
dealing with insect life. There are enlarged photographs of 
well-known species, which present a truly fearsome aspect. 
ANOTHER NEW YORKSHIRE BIRD. 
The current ‘ Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club ’ 
(No. CXCVIII.) contains a doubtful record of a new addition 
to the avifauna of Yorkshire. At the May 13th meeting of 
1914 July 1 . 
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