NORTHERN NEWS. 



Dr. S. F. Harmer, F.R.S., of Cambridge, has been appointed keeper of 

 Zoology at the British Museum, South Kensington. 



We are glad to see that the Manchester Microscopical Society con- 

 tinues its excellent work in the way of lecturing, etc., in the surrounding 

 district. 



' Eliimn piirpjinisceiis, a Woodlouse new to the British Isles ' is 

 figured and described by Denis R. Pack-Beresford in the ' Irish Naturalist ' 

 for December. 



The Hon. W. Rothschild describes ' A new species of Bat Flea froin 

 Great Britain ' in ' The Entomologist ' for December ; under the name 

 Nycteridopsylla longiceps. 



Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse favours us with a copy of his Presidential 

 Address to the Liverpool Geological Society, in which he deals with the 

 modern hypotheses relating to the solar system. 



Dr. Francis Galton has delivered an address to the Royal Society of 

 Literature on ' Suggestions for improving the literary style of Scientific 

 Memoirs. Tiiis has been largely circulated, and it is hoped will prove 

 beneficial. 



We are glad to see that the Millport Marine Station is issuing a ' Reprint 

 Series,' No. I. of which has recently reached us. It is a paper ' on Tri- 

 chofhiza, a new Hydroid Genus,' by E. S. Russell, and is reprinted from 

 the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 



The Sixth Annual Report of the Advisory Committee of the Bradford 

 Botanic Garden bears further evidence of the success of the gardens in 

 Lister Park. Our Bradford friends are to be congratulated upon the 

 earnestness with which they have carried out this work. 



An interesting slab of Triassic sandstone from the Storeton Quarries 

 has recently been placed on exhibition in the Liverpool Museum. It 

 shews sun-cracks, ripple-marks, impressions of foot-prints, and illustrates 

 almost all the varied traces of life of the Trias found in the district. 



A yellow-browed Warbler was found dead in a hedge at North Cotes, 

 Lincolnshire, on October 19th. This is the second record of the bird for 

 the county (' British Birds,' December 1908). In the same journal, Mr. 

 G. H. Caton Haigh records that he shot a Sabine's gull off Gramthorpe 

 Haven, Lincolnshire, on September 28th. 



The Annual Report of the Ipswich Museum, recently to hand, indicates . 

 that an extraordinary amount of good work has been accomplished during 

 the past twelve months in connection with the re-arrangement and re- 

 labelling of the specimens. The Ipswich Museum is also fortunate in 

 securing much substantial help voluntarily. 



We have received the Annual Report of the Huddersfield Naturalist 

 and Photographic Society for 1907-8. This contains brief reports of the 

 various recorders, which are worthy of preservation. The report is a 

 twelve-page pamphlet, measuring 4IX5I inches — a very inconvenient 

 size. It would have been much better if the ordinary 8vo size of previous 

 reports had been followed. 



Lieut-Col. Eschalaz has presented an admirable museum to the 

 inhabitants of Waterloo, near Liverpool. It is largely devoted to British 

 Birds. The donor points out that ' To shew one or two birds of each 

 species in a case, would by no means convey the proper idea of tiiese birds 

 as they congregate on the edges of the cliffs ; consequently, as many as 

 are required to give a true representation of what they look like in their 

 natural state are introduced.' 



Naturalief 



