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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Natural-History Transactions of Northumherland and DnrJunn. Vol. 



III. Part 2. 8vo, 1870. 

 Cardiff Naturalists'' Society, Report and Transactions, 1868-69. 



8vo, 1870. 



The first of the above-mentioned works comprises papers read at 

 the meetings of the Natural-History Society of Northumberland, 

 Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and of the Tyneside Naturalists' 

 Field-Club, together with an Anniversary Address by the President, 

 the Rev. R. F. Wheeler, Financial and other Reports, lists of officers 

 and members, and index to the volume for 1SG8-70. The Presi- 

 dent's Address to the members of the Field-Club was read in the 

 museum of the Natural -History Society, thus bringing pleasant 

 reminiscences of summer excursions, and succinct notices of their 

 useful results, to the indoor gathering of town and country members, 

 amidst the trophies their science and energy have won from nature 

 and stored in their famous museum. The address itself is not only 

 an eloquent record of one year's hajipy work, but a typical compen- 

 dium of the lines of research and modes of operation that our ardent 

 but steady North-of-England brethren have pursued for a quarter 

 of a century in their elaboration of complete catalogues and full de- 

 scriptions of all things and circumstances which are presented to 

 their notice as parts and belongings of the system of Nature — 

 Newton's " elegantissima compages," of which man is not only to be 

 an admiring spectator, but an intelligent interpreter. 



Both the recent and the fossil life of Northumbria are worthily 

 treated of in the fasciculus before us ; and several of the communi- 

 cations, with their illustrations, have already graced the 'Annals of 

 Natural History.' G. S. Brady catalogues many of the Freshwater 

 Algae, and also enumerates various bivalved Entomostraca, describing 

 some little-known and new forms, with figures in plates 12, 13, & 

 14 ; indeed two new genera (PotaMocypris and Xi2:)hichilus) are 

 established by this excellent cntomostracist for some of them. 

 T. J. Bold supplies some interesting and useful entomological notes 

 for the year 1869 ; he assures us there is no ground for the fear of 

 mosquitoes that English newspapers were affected with last summer: 

 the Cynipides of the woody oak-gall appear to bo all females : the 

 short-tailed field-mouse of Cheviot has for its flea Curtis's Cerato- 

 jysi/llHS tnlpoi : there are eighteen species of the aquatic hcmipterous 

 genus Corixa, and at least seventeen other aquatic Heraiptera, in.the 

 district. J. Wright describes the enamel-tipped teeth of Lahrns 

 mactdatus (pi. 15) for the purpose of setting some Londoners right 

 who have ignored this structure in certain recent and fossil fish-teeth. 



A. Hancock, T. Atthey, and R. Howse carefully describe and figure 

 (plates 9, 10, 11) teeth of fishes known under the generic names of 

 Climaxodus (M'Coy, 1848) and Janassa (Miinster, 1832), and esta- 

 blish the priority of the latter. J. hituminosa (Schlothcim) has been 

 discovered in the so-called "marl-slato" of the Permian formation 

 at Midderidge, Durham. Anthracosanrus BHSselli (Huxley) has 



