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THE
historical and horticultural, upon some of
the most delightful gardens in the world. CAPT. SCOTT IN THE ANTARCTIC.
SCIENCE
Gypsy Lore Society, Journal, Vol. IV. No. 5,
THE TERRA Nova, the relief ship to Capt.
and Vol. V. No. 3.
Liverpool, Gypsy Lore Society on April 1st, and brought news that Capt.
Scott's expedition, arrived at Akaroa (N. Z. )
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. Knight (A. E. ) and Step (E. ), HUTCHINSON's Scott has decided to remain another winter
POPULAR BOTANY : the Living Plant in the South. A full report has since been
(Notico in these column3 doos not proclude longer from Seed to Fruit, Part I. , 7d. net. publishod of the doings of the expedition,
roviow. )
This publication, which is to be completed which gives a complete account of its work
and the position of affairs on March 5th,
Bealby (J. T. ), How to MAKE AN ORCHARD in about eighteen parts, makes a good start.
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, & Handbook for | It is well illustrated, and the results of modern
when the ship left the base at Cape Evans.
Beginners, 1/6 net. A. & C. Black | research, especially as revealed by the
In January, 1911, Capt. Scott proceeded
A serviceable manual for the novice, microscope, are exhibited in an interesting to lay down depots on the Great Barrier
omitting no indispensable information con- fashion. The editors might, we think, for his southern journey in the following
cerning cultivation. We think that the
take a little more pains to make their matter spring. A camp for supplius, called Corner
author's tone is too optimistic, for no climate clear and simple for beginners, and explain Camp, was set up east of White Island,
in the world is more capricious than that of all difficult words. In such a work it would beyond 78°; and from here a succession of
Canada, and British Columbia, though one
be preferable surely to write, instead of sledges proceeded south to 79° 30', reached
of the most favourable of the states, un-
C. Hj. Os, the plain names of the three ele- on February 16th, where an advance dep t,
established.
doubtedly shares its vicissitudes.
ments concerned. The writing is, we are styled One-Ton Camp, was
glad to find, easier than that of the average on their return from this position in March,
Carey (Alfred Edward), BREAKWATER BUILD- specialist in science.
one of the parties met with misfortune,
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In the course of under 150 pages the ponies. The men of the party with one
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author has succeeded in presenting the pony were eventually rescued, and reached
There some interesting deductions
outlines of his subject in a clear and com- Hut Point; but three ponies were lost.
derived from observations of wind and wave
prehensible manner. There is a tendency, Owing to the open state of McMurdo Sound
phenomena, and the whole comprises much
however, to over-formulate. For example, and the blocking of the land route by ice.
knowledge in an agreeable form.
it follows directly from the definition of falls from Mount Erebus, the depot parties
Chree (C. ), STUDIES IN TERRESTRIAL Mag- specific gravity that it is equivalent to the had to spend several weeks in the Discovery
density of a substance divided by the density Hut before they could communicate with
NETISM, 5/ not.
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This does not profess to be a textbook deduction is not easily remembered under that all reached their winter quarters. At
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account of Dr. Chree's original work in been well chosen.
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of the beginner in the subject, but rather to
those of the advanced student or the different species of moths peculiar to each
In September advance parties began to
professional magnetician. Such
readers month of the year. There is also a general leave for the south and west, and on Octo-
will find mass of interesting details | chapter that will be found useful to collectors, ber 25th a party of four, with motor
in the book, dealing chiefly with the bes:des a number of illustrative plates.
sledges carrying stores, was dispatched
diurnal inequalities of the magnetic elements Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections : 2074, over the Barrier, Capt. Scott with his main
and the manner of their variation.
DESCRIPTIONS OF Two New SPECIES party of ten following a week later. Short
Special interest attaches to the chapter on OF NUN BIRDS FROM PANAMA, by E. W. of One-Ton Camp, they found the motors
Antarctic Magnetic Results. ' deduced from Nelson ; 2077, NEW SPECIES OF Fossil abandoned through overheating of the
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in which “ the most striking feature is the Healey Dall; and 2078, DESCRIPTION degree further south two of these men were
incessant occurronce and the large size of
A NEW SUBSPECIES OF MONKEY sent back. Owing to an extraordinary
disturbances. " These appear to be due, to FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA, by N. blizzard, in which the temperature rose
some extent, to proximity to the Magnetic Hollister.
above freezing-point, the foot of the Beard-
Pole, & circumstance that increases the
Washington, Smithsonian Institution more Glacier in 83° 37' was not reached till
range of some of the inequalities to nearly
December 10th; and here the last ponies
three times the amount shown at Kew
THE MAFULU
Williamson (Robert W. ),
were destroyed as food for the returning
under similar conditions.
MOUNTAIN PEOPLE OF BRITISH NEW
One thing that impresses itself on the
Guinea, with an Introduction by A. C. dog. teams, which had left the base after
the main party, and were now sent back
reader of Dr. Chree's book is the desirability
Haddon, 14/ net.
Macmillan
The Mafulu people dwell in the mountain Capt. Scott did not keep some of the dogs
with their drivers. It seems a pity that
of having some quantitative definition of a
ranges behind the Mekeo district, and of for use on the high plateau, as Capt. Amund.
magnetic disturbed ” day. For such a
definition we have looked in vain, and con- ledge, observation of New Guinea being reaches of the Glacier proved such an
them there exists but the scantiest know-
sen did; but the soft snow on the lower
sidering the importance of the distribution
of days as quiet
disturbed " in the practically confined to the south-eastern
discussion of diurnal inequalities of magnetic sonal feats and adventure, but a systematic ditions the ascent was terribly difficult;
peninsula. This is no more record of per- probably
considered useless.
exceptionally bad surface that they were
In such con-
elements, think that
pronouncement on the subject
is required. inquiry into the ethnology of the Mafulu, but on the 21st an Upper Glacier Depoi
The book appears to be carefully printed, their characteristics, daily life, clan systems,
was established in 85° 7', south of Mount
and is illustrated with many instructive | government, religion, and ceremonies. There Darwin, and at this point four men returned.
are a number of very useful etymological
diagrams.
notes in the appendixes, and copious illus-
Capt. Scott's final dispatch is dated Janu.
trations.
Günther (R. T. ), OXFORD GARDENS, BASED
ary 3rd, at 87° 32', whence he sent back
three of his remaining men under Lieut.
UPON DAUBENY'S POPULAR GUIDE TO
Pamphlets.
Evans. He had attained a height of
THE PHYSICK GARDEN OF OXFORD : with
Notes on the Gardens of the Colleges British Guiana, Gold and Diamond Industries. 2,800 ft. , or nearly the full height of the
and on the University Park, 6/ net. Leaflet No. 2 prepared by the Commissioner plateau, and was advancing with five men
Oxford, Parker
of Lands and Mines for the Permanent by blizzards or unforeseen accidents, he
and a month's provisions. If not delayed
London, Simpkin & Marshall Exhibitions Committee.
should, at his average rate of about 15 miles
Daubeny's excellent book has been con.
Gordon (George), POPPIES, Id.
a day, have reached the Pole about January
siderably revised and enlarged-so much s)
Agricultural and Horticultural Association 13th. ' Lieut. Evans was attacked by scurvy
as to be in many directions an original com- Another addition to the popular One and during his return, but arrived at the base
pilation, in spite of the author's modest All Garden Books edited by Edward Owen on February 23rd, and has now returned to
disclaimer. The book is full of observation, 'Greening.
New Zealand convalescent. He considers that
a
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his attack was due to his having boon five found in thu Cyanophyceæ ; and that the charac. The distribution of Scottish boulders was also
months on sledge-rations, and that those in ters are such as to exclude the Spirochæts from discussed. In the Lower Boulder clay of the
the advance party would probably not suffer the protozoan system altogether. It is therefore westward mountain slopes (the ground-moraino
in the same way.
maintained that the Spirochæts cannot be regarded of combined Lake District and Irish Sea ico)
as Protozoa, but that they must be classified there is evidence both of the interweaving, of
The Terra Nova, after leaving Lyttelton in among the schizophyta, and that in the latter drifts of distant and strictly local origin, and of
December, reached Cape Adare on January group they must be placed among the Bacteria, a certain amount of movement of ice inland.
4th, and embarked the northern party of and not among the Oyanophyceæ.
The Older Palæozoic Succession of the Duddon
six men under Lieut. Campbell, who had and Assortative Mating on the Ancestral and
Mr. E. C. Snow on 'The Influence of Selection Estuary,' by Mr. John Frederick Norman Green.
passed the winter at this point. These Fraternal Correlations of a Mendelian Population. '
were now taken south, and landed on the Using the simple hypothesis of Mendel, the author ROYAL NUMISMATIC. - March 21. - Mr. H. A.
north side of the Drygal ki Barrier for the investigates by analytical methods the numerical Grueber in the chair. -Mr. Grueber read a paper
exploration of the north-eastern part of effect on the ancestral and fraternal correlations on the 'Buildings of the Forum as illustrated by
Victoria Land. Although, several weeks
of dealing with samples-(a) which are not true Coins. ' Having distinguished between the diſ-
random samples of the general population and
later, the ship made threo attempts to reach
ferent kinds of fora which existed in Rome, the
which mate with no sexual selection, (6) which
the land in order to re-embark this party,
writer gave a brief account of the early history
are perfectly random samples of the general of the Great Forum and of its gradual develop-
she was prevented by an impenetrablo pack; Deportative mating, te) which are selected samples edifices,
vestiges of which remain to the present
population,
ment, fixing the date of erection of many of the
and it was hoped that the party, which was
well provisioned, would be able to sledge is the same for somatic characters as for gametic; he selected coins of the period of the Republic.
showing assortative mating. The general effect day. For his illustrations, with one exception,
the 200 miles over the sea-ice to Cape Evans in the case of (a) the correlations are found to These supplied amongst others figures of the
before the departure of the sun.
As the be reduced, and in the case of (b) to be increased
Sacellum of Venus Cloacina, the Basilica Æmilia,
land is in many places inaccessible, they imposed, but it is found that the decreasing the Rostra, the Puteal Scriboneanum, and the
(c)
the fountain of Juturna, the Temple of Vesta,
would be in
danger of being
carried out to sea in the pack.
tendency caused by dealing with a selected Temple of Julius Cæsar.
Before sample predominates over the increasing ten- employed to supply an illustration of the Temple
leaving for the north, the ship conveyed deney exerted by the assortative mating in of Janus, which is suppused to be the first one
to Cape Evans the western sledge party,
cases in which the intensities of the selection and erected in the Forum, and does not appear
which had madegeological discoveries of much assortative mating are of the orders of those
on earlier pieces. Mr. P. H. Webb and Mr.
interest. Capt. Scott should lave returned actually experienced. The general numerical F. A. Walters exbibited Republican and Imperial
results agree fairly well with the values which
to his base by March 20th, which is late in have previously been reached by other methods,
coins illustrative of the paper.
the season ; but two dog-teams were dis- but the investigation in no way diminishes the
patched south to his relief on February 26th. diſculties in the way of reconciling the “ regres-
sions follow
ZOOLOGICAL. -April 2. -Dr. A. Smith Wood-
Some disappointment has been expressed characters (0. 9. , coat-colour in mice) with
those ward, V. :P, in the chair. . .
already possess.
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are
THE
historical and horticultural, upon some of
the most delightful gardens in the world. CAPT. SCOTT IN THE ANTARCTIC.
SCIENCE
Gypsy Lore Society, Journal, Vol. IV. No. 5,
THE TERRA Nova, the relief ship to Capt.
and Vol. V. No. 3.
Liverpool, Gypsy Lore Society on April 1st, and brought news that Capt.
Scott's expedition, arrived at Akaroa (N. Z. )
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. Knight (A. E. ) and Step (E. ), HUTCHINSON's Scott has decided to remain another winter
POPULAR BOTANY : the Living Plant in the South. A full report has since been
(Notico in these column3 doos not proclude longer from Seed to Fruit, Part I. , 7d. net. publishod of the doings of the expedition,
roviow. )
This publication, which is to be completed which gives a complete account of its work
and the position of affairs on March 5th,
Bealby (J. T. ), How to MAKE AN ORCHARD in about eighteen parts, makes a good start.
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, & Handbook for | It is well illustrated, and the results of modern
when the ship left the base at Cape Evans.
Beginners, 1/6 net. A. & C. Black | research, especially as revealed by the
In January, 1911, Capt. Scott proceeded
A serviceable manual for the novice, microscope, are exhibited in an interesting to lay down depots on the Great Barrier
omitting no indispensable information con- fashion. The editors might, we think, for his southern journey in the following
cerning cultivation. We think that the
take a little more pains to make their matter spring. A camp for supplius, called Corner
author's tone is too optimistic, for no climate clear and simple for beginners, and explain Camp, was set up east of White Island,
in the world is more capricious than that of all difficult words. In such a work it would beyond 78°; and from here a succession of
Canada, and British Columbia, though one
be preferable surely to write, instead of sledges proceeded south to 79° 30', reached
of the most favourable of the states, un-
C. Hj. Os, the plain names of the three ele- on February 16th, where an advance dep t,
established.
doubtedly shares its vicissitudes.
ments concerned. The writing is, we are styled One-Ton Camp, was
glad to find, easier than that of the average on their return from this position in March,
Carey (Alfred Edward), BREAKWATER BUILD- specialist in science.
one of the parties met with misfortune,
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In the course of under 150 pages the ponies. The men of the party with one
mizing the unchecked sweep of the seas.
author has succeeded in presenting the pony were eventually rescued, and reached
There some interesting deductions
outlines of his subject in a clear and com- Hut Point; but three ponies were lost.
derived from observations of wind and wave
prehensible manner. There is a tendency, Owing to the open state of McMurdo Sound
phenomena, and the whole comprises much
however, to over-formulate. For example, and the blocking of the land route by ice.
knowledge in an agreeable form.
it follows directly from the definition of falls from Mount Erebus, the depot parties
Chree (C. ), STUDIES IN TERRESTRIAL Mag- specific gravity that it is equivalent to the had to spend several weeks in the Discovery
density of a substance divided by the density Hut before they could communicate with
NETISM, 5/ not.
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This does not profess to be a textbook deduction is not easily remembered under that all reached their winter quarters. At
of the usual kind, but is intended to give an
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account of Dr. Chree's original work in been well chosen.
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of the beginner in the subject, but rather to
those of the advanced student or the different species of moths peculiar to each
In September advance parties began to
professional magnetician. Such
readers month of the year. There is also a general leave for the south and west, and on Octo-
will find mass of interesting details | chapter that will be found useful to collectors, ber 25th a party of four, with motor
in the book, dealing chiefly with the bes:des a number of illustrative plates.
sledges carrying stores, was dispatched
diurnal inequalities of the magnetic elements Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections : 2074, over the Barrier, Capt. Scott with his main
and the manner of their variation.
DESCRIPTIONS OF Two New SPECIES party of ten following a week later. Short
Special interest attaches to the chapter on OF NUN BIRDS FROM PANAMA, by E. W. of One-Ton Camp, they found the motors
Antarctic Magnetic Results. ' deduced from Nelson ; 2077, NEW SPECIES OF Fossil abandoned through overheating of the
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in which “ the most striking feature is the Healey Dall; and 2078, DESCRIPTION degree further south two of these men were
incessant occurronce and the large size of
A NEW SUBSPECIES OF MONKEY sent back. Owing to an extraordinary
disturbances. " These appear to be due, to FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA, by N. blizzard, in which the temperature rose
some extent, to proximity to the Magnetic Hollister.
above freezing-point, the foot of the Beard-
Pole, & circumstance that increases the
Washington, Smithsonian Institution more Glacier in 83° 37' was not reached till
range of some of the inequalities to nearly
December 10th; and here the last ponies
three times the amount shown at Kew
THE MAFULU
Williamson (Robert W. ),
were destroyed as food for the returning
under similar conditions.
MOUNTAIN PEOPLE OF BRITISH NEW
One thing that impresses itself on the
Guinea, with an Introduction by A. C. dog. teams, which had left the base after
the main party, and were now sent back
reader of Dr. Chree's book is the desirability
Haddon, 14/ net.
Macmillan
The Mafulu people dwell in the mountain Capt. Scott did not keep some of the dogs
with their drivers. It seems a pity that
of having some quantitative definition of a
ranges behind the Mekeo district, and of for use on the high plateau, as Capt. Amund.
magnetic disturbed ” day. For such a
definition we have looked in vain, and con- ledge, observation of New Guinea being reaches of the Glacier proved such an
them there exists but the scantiest know-
sen did; but the soft snow on the lower
sidering the importance of the distribution
of days as quiet
disturbed " in the practically confined to the south-eastern
discussion of diurnal inequalities of magnetic sonal feats and adventure, but a systematic ditions the ascent was terribly difficult;
peninsula. This is no more record of per- probably
considered useless.
exceptionally bad surface that they were
In such con-
elements, think that
pronouncement on the subject
is required. inquiry into the ethnology of the Mafulu, but on the 21st an Upper Glacier Depoi
The book appears to be carefully printed, their characteristics, daily life, clan systems,
was established in 85° 7', south of Mount
and is illustrated with many instructive | government, religion, and ceremonies. There Darwin, and at this point four men returned.
are a number of very useful etymological
diagrams.
notes in the appendixes, and copious illus-
Capt. Scott's final dispatch is dated Janu.
trations.
Günther (R. T. ), OXFORD GARDENS, BASED
ary 3rd, at 87° 32', whence he sent back
three of his remaining men under Lieut.
UPON DAUBENY'S POPULAR GUIDE TO
Pamphlets.
Evans. He had attained a height of
THE PHYSICK GARDEN OF OXFORD : with
Notes on the Gardens of the Colleges British Guiana, Gold and Diamond Industries. 2,800 ft. , or nearly the full height of the
and on the University Park, 6/ net. Leaflet No. 2 prepared by the Commissioner plateau, and was advancing with five men
Oxford, Parker
of Lands and Mines for the Permanent by blizzards or unforeseen accidents, he
and a month's provisions. If not delayed
London, Simpkin & Marshall Exhibitions Committee.
should, at his average rate of about 15 miles
Daubeny's excellent book has been con.
Gordon (George), POPPIES, Id.
a day, have reached the Pole about January
siderably revised and enlarged-so much s)
Agricultural and Horticultural Association 13th. ' Lieut. Evans was attacked by scurvy
as to be in many directions an original com- Another addition to the popular One and during his return, but arrived at the base
pilation, in spite of the author's modest All Garden Books edited by Edward Owen on February 23rd, and has now returned to
disclaimer. The book is full of observation, 'Greening.
New Zealand convalescent. He considers that
a
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his attack was due to his having boon five found in thu Cyanophyceæ ; and that the charac. The distribution of Scottish boulders was also
months on sledge-rations, and that those in ters are such as to exclude the Spirochæts from discussed. In the Lower Boulder clay of the
the advance party would probably not suffer the protozoan system altogether. It is therefore westward mountain slopes (the ground-moraino
in the same way.
maintained that the Spirochæts cannot be regarded of combined Lake District and Irish Sea ico)
as Protozoa, but that they must be classified there is evidence both of the interweaving, of
The Terra Nova, after leaving Lyttelton in among the schizophyta, and that in the latter drifts of distant and strictly local origin, and of
December, reached Cape Adare on January group they must be placed among the Bacteria, a certain amount of movement of ice inland.
4th, and embarked the northern party of and not among the Oyanophyceæ.
The Older Palæozoic Succession of the Duddon
six men under Lieut. Campbell, who had and Assortative Mating on the Ancestral and
Mr. E. C. Snow on 'The Influence of Selection Estuary,' by Mr. John Frederick Norman Green.
passed the winter at this point. These Fraternal Correlations of a Mendelian Population. '
were now taken south, and landed on the Using the simple hypothesis of Mendel, the author ROYAL NUMISMATIC. - March 21. - Mr. H. A.
north side of the Drygal ki Barrier for the investigates by analytical methods the numerical Grueber in the chair. -Mr. Grueber read a paper
exploration of the north-eastern part of effect on the ancestral and fraternal correlations on the 'Buildings of the Forum as illustrated by
Victoria Land. Although, several weeks
of dealing with samples-(a) which are not true Coins. ' Having distinguished between the diſ-
random samples of the general population and
later, the ship made threo attempts to reach
ferent kinds of fora which existed in Rome, the
which mate with no sexual selection, (6) which
the land in order to re-embark this party,
writer gave a brief account of the early history
are perfectly random samples of the general of the Great Forum and of its gradual develop-
she was prevented by an impenetrablo pack; Deportative mating, te) which are selected samples edifices,
vestiges of which remain to the present
population,
ment, fixing the date of erection of many of the
and it was hoped that the party, which was
well provisioned, would be able to sledge is the same for somatic characters as for gametic; he selected coins of the period of the Republic.
showing assortative mating. The general effect day. For his illustrations, with one exception,
the 200 miles over the sea-ice to Cape Evans in the case of (a) the correlations are found to These supplied amongst others figures of the
before the departure of the sun.
As the be reduced, and in the case of (b) to be increased
Sacellum of Venus Cloacina, the Basilica Æmilia,
land is in many places inaccessible, they imposed, but it is found that the decreasing the Rostra, the Puteal Scriboneanum, and the
(c)
the fountain of Juturna, the Temple of Vesta,
would be in
danger of being
carried out to sea in the pack.
tendency caused by dealing with a selected Temple of Julius Cæsar.
Before sample predominates over the increasing ten- employed to supply an illustration of the Temple
leaving for the north, the ship conveyed deney exerted by the assortative mating in of Janus, which is suppused to be the first one
to Cape Evans the western sledge party,
cases in which the intensities of the selection and erected in the Forum, and does not appear
which had madegeological discoveries of much assortative mating are of the orders of those
on earlier pieces. Mr. P. H. Webb and Mr.
interest. Capt. Scott should lave returned actually experienced. The general numerical F. A. Walters exbibited Republican and Imperial
results agree fairly well with the values which
to his base by March 20th, which is late in have previously been reached by other methods,
coins illustrative of the paper.
the season ; but two dog-teams were dis- but the investigation in no way diminishes the
patched south to his relief on February 26th. diſculties in the way of reconciling the “ regres-
sions follow
ZOOLOGICAL. -April 2. -Dr. A. Smith Wood-
Some disappointment has been expressed characters (0. 9. , coat-colour in mice) with
those ward, V. :P, in the chair. . .
