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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
The Irish Naturalist for August-Scptember is entirely occupied by a 
paper on ‘ The Opisthobranch Fauna of the Shores and Shallow Waters 
of County Dublin,’ by N. Colgan. 
Messrs. Hutchinson continue to regularly publish further interesting 
parts of the Marvels of Plant Life, edited by Mr. E. Step. The illustrations 
in the recent parts are truly remarkable. 
British Birds for August contains notes on Long-tailed Skuas in 
Cumberland, Yorkshire and Ireland. There is also a record of a con- 
siderable increase in the Tufted Duck breeding in Northumberland. 
In The Entomologist for August, Mr. K. J. Morton gives some notes on 
the British species of Sympherobius ( Hemerobius), including S. striatellus 
(from Nottinghamshire) hitherto unnoticed. In the same journal Plusia 
moneta is recorded for Nottinghamshire ; said to be the first record for 
the County. 
Still more corrections. In the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for 
August, Mr. M. Cameron points out that in that Journal for 1912 he des- 
cribed a new species of Bledius under the name of bernhaueri, whereas it 
is now pointed out to him that the name is pre-occupied, and he therefore 
suggests that the species should be re-named renominatus. 
The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for June 30th, reached 
us on August 5th. Among the papers of interest to our readers are those 
by Dr. A. Jowett, on the Glacial Geology of East Lancashire, referred to in 
our Notes and Comments for March last, and on the Lithology of 
Durham Magnesian Limestones by Mr. C. T. Trechmann ; both are well 
illustrated. 
The New Phytologist for June and July includes ‘ Xerophytic Adapta- 
tions of Bryophytes in Relation to Habitat,’ by W. Watson ; ‘ Pioneer 
Investigators of Photosynthesis,’ by R. J. Harvey Gibson ; 1 The Measure- 
ment of Electrical Conductivity as a Method of Investigation in Plant 
Physiology,’ by W. Stiles and I. Jorgensen ; and a 1 Note on the Biology 
of Fegatella conica,’ by Annie C. Maybrook. 
The August Journal of the Board of Agriculture contains a paper on 
‘ The Food of the Common Mole.’ In this the author points out that ‘ if 
it were desired to form some idea of the soil pests of any particular piece 
of land no better criterion could be obtained than an examination of the 
stomach contents of moles taken upon that land.’ As a supplement to 
the Journal has been issued a pamphlet on ‘ Seed Control Stations on the 
Continent.’ 
Among the contents of The Mineralogical Magazine recently issued we 
notice the following : — ‘ The genetic classification of rocks and ore deposits’, 
by T. Crook ; ‘ apparatus for cutting crystal plates and prisms,’ by H. H. 
Thomas and W. Campbell Smith ; ‘ Optically uniaxial Augite from Mull,’ 
by A. F. Hallimond ; ‘ Augite from Bail Hill, Dumfriesshire,’ by A. 
Scott ; 1 On the occurrence of Bornite nodules in shale from Mashona- 
land,’ by F. P. Mennell ; and ‘ Note on the pleochroism of Adamite,’ by 
L. J. Spencer. 
The Duchess of Bedford contributes various bird-notes from Scottish 
Islands to The Scottish Naturalist for August, which are illustrated by eight 
excellent plates showing breeding haunts. In this she records that on 
June 2nd she saw two Common Rorquals just north of Spurn Point, on 
her homeward voyage. They were very close to the yacht at first, and 
she had a good view of the length and small dorsal fin as they rolled over. 
After the roll they appeared to skim just beneath the surface for a time, 
and she saw them blow several times before they disappeared in the 
distance. In the same journal Mr. J. Ritchie writes on the ‘ Fauna of a 
Coal-pit at Great Depths.' 
1914 Sept. 1. 
