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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES, etc. 
No. 12 of Volume 13 of the Museums Journal contains an account of 
the new galleries at the British Museum. 
The Report of the Castle Museum Committee of Norwich for 1913 
contains an illustration of the new gallery, as well as of the Nepal Tiger 
presented to the Museum by the King. 
The Thirty-sixth Annual Report of the Art Museum of Nottingham 
contains a record of the various additions made during the year. Among 
them are quite a number of interesting bygones. 
Mr. Charles Madeley’s Presidential Address to the Members of the 
Museums Association on ‘ What is the true theory of a Municipal Museum ’ 
is printed in The Museums Journal for August f there is also an account 
of the Swansea Conference. 
As Publication 2212 of the Smithsonian Institution, Prof. Dr. C. 
Keller of Zurich has a paper on the ‘ Derivation of the European Domestic 
Animals,’ which is translated from- Verhandlungen des VIII. Inter- 
nationalen Zoologen - Kongresses zu Gras. 
The 65th Annual Report of the Ipswich Museum, etc., contains par- 
ticulars of several cases of birds added to the collection, and also a num- 
ber of important specimens under the head of ‘ Palethnology,' apparently 
a new science, which seems to be receiving some attention in the Ipswich 
district. 
Mr. H. W. Ford-Lindsay records a New British Bird (Riippell's War- 
bler), in British Birds for September, two specimens being seen in the 
flesh on May 6th. Guess where ? Sussex ? Correct ! The same 
journal contains a valuable report on the Land-rail enquiry, by H. G. 
Alexander. 
The Tokyo Zoological Society still continues to issue its valuable 
Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, parts III. and IN’, of Yol. NTI. of 
which have recently been published. Among the articles we notice papers 
on ‘ Gregarines,’ ‘ Ascidians,’ ‘ Svnaptidae,’ ‘ Coleoptera,’ ' Isopoda,’ and 
‘ Protozoa.’ Many of the papers are in English. 
The Entomologist’s Record informs us that according to an American 
scientific publication, ants near a shooting range have collected stray shot 
and particles of granite with which to build their mounds, and that over 
50 pounds of shot have been collected from the mounds. NVe should 
surmise that with this particular kind of ant there aren’t any antennae ! 
Mr. T. H. Nelson writes on ‘ Destruction of Grouse in a Storm in 
Yorkshire,’ in British Birds for September. Lest any of our readers 
should think that the note might have been sent to The Naturalist, we 
may state, in fairness to Air. Nelson, that it was ; but as it was also sent 
to our contemporary, and we felt that most workers would find it wherever 
published, the London journal has had the honour. 
The Lord Derby Natural History Museum, Liverpool, has issued a 
Handbook and Guide to the British Birds, which is illustrated by twelve 
plates of the more interesting groups in that well-known collection. 
It contains 69 pages and is sold at the low price of 6d. Judging by the 
illustrations, many of the groups are remarkably lifelike. NVe are per- 
mitted to reproduce the illustration of the Golden Eagle group (see 
plate XXN'L). 
NVe have received the 25th Annual Report of the Belfast Museum and 
Art Gallery (Publication 43), which is increased to foolscap size. NN hy 
this sudden enlargement it is difficult to understand, as there is nothing 
in the report that would not appear in the octavo publications already 
issued by this museum. Possibly it is to ‘ go one better ’ than the 
Reports of the National Museum of NVales, which are quarto. It will; of 
course, be impossible to bind this report with the other publications. 
It includes many records of Irish Antiquities, etc., recently secured. 
Naturalist 
