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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES, etc. 
In the Selborne Magazine for July is an illustrated account of Sussex 
Draught Oxen. 
In The Museums Journal for July is an account of the Wilton Park 
Museum, Batley, Yorks. 
The Lancashire Naturalist has now been incorporated in The Lan- 
cashire and Cheshire Naturalist. 
Mr. A. P. Long has an article on the Cricket Bat Willow in The Journal 
of the Board of Agriculture for July. 
Camping for May is principally interesting from the reproductions 
of weird drawings which it contains. 
British Birds for July contains a paper by S. E. Brock on ‘ The Eco- 
logical Relations of Bird-Distribution.’ 
A note on the Numerical Ratio of the two Sexes of the Lesser Horse- 
Shoe Bat, appears in The Irish Naturalist for July. 
In the Journal of Conchology for July are papers on the Radula of 
Hyalinia, and on the Candidula Section of Helicella. 
The IFe/s/i National Museum has issued a valuable illustrated Catalogue 
of an Exhibition of works by certain Modern Artists of Welsh birth or 
extraction. 
The Colchester Museum has recently issued its report for the year 
ended 31st March, 1914. It contains many valuable illustrations of the 
pre-historic and later objects presented to the Museum. 
In The Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association (Yol. XXV., Part 3,) 
Mr. P. G. H. Boswell has a paper * On the occurrence of the North Sea 
Drift (Lower Glacial) and certain other Brick-earths in Suffolk.’ 
In Man for July is a report on the description of a flat Bronze Celt in 
the Newbury Museum, which is very similar in type to many found in 
North countries ; the analysis shows that the alloy consists of 91.3 parts 
of copper, and 8.3 parts of tin. 
In the Entomologist’s Record for July and August, Mr. G. T. Bethune- 
Baker prints his paper on ‘ The Correlation of Pattern and Structure in 
Rhopalocera with Special Reference to the Ruralidae,’ which was read at 
the Birmingham meeting of the British Association. It is illustrated by 
seven plates. 
In The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for March, there is a note on 
Deformed antennte in beetles taken at Spurn ; some new and rare records 
of beetles in Yorkshire and Durham. Sirex iuvencus L., and Mono- 
chammus sartor L., in Yorkshire, and a note on some extreme forms of v. 
nigrosparsata of Abraxas grossulariata from Huddersfield. 
We understand from The Lancashire Naturalist that some of the 
pre-historic remains found at Darwen and lodged in the Liverpool Museum 
bv the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire were thought to have 
been neglected, and that after negotiations with the society the collection 
has been handed over to the Darwen authorities, and has been placed 
in the library there. 
The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, Volume XII., No. 74, 
contains the Presidential Address by Dr. A. Dendy, on ' Organisms and 
Origins ’ ; Mr. James Burton writes on the Disc-like Termination of the 
Flagellum of some Euglenae ; Mr. N. E. Brown, on the Structure of 
Diatoms, and there are numerous papers dealing with the technical aspect 
of microscopical work. 
At last two pen and ink portraits of Gilbert White, the author of the 
History of Selborne, have been found, which are considered by the 
authorities to be authentic. They occur in a copy of Pope’s translations 
of the Iliad, and were presented to Gilbert White by the author in 1743. 
The volumes have been secured by the British Museum, and the portraits 
reproduced in The Selborne Magazine for July. 
Naturalist, 
