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NORTHERN NEWS. 



According to the ' Pall Mall Gazette ' a roach of 3 lb. has been caught 

 in the Dove and Dearne Canal, at Elsecar, Yorks. 



We have heard of about ' making a noise like a turnip,' but a contem- 

 porary, in the heading to a paragraph, records that a ' Privet hedge 

 barked ! ' 



An excellent portrait of a past President of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey, Bart., appears in ' The Shooting Times ' 

 for January i6th, 1909. 



It is not often the ' Yorkshire Weekly Post ' is hoaxed, but the following 

 extracts from a report of a meeting of a Jimior Field Naturalists' Club are 

 interesting : — ' Mr. W. J. W. Slowe, B.E.N. A., gave a lucid description of 

 the finding of Balaena mysticetus in the Hornsea Mere, a specimen of which 

 he passed round for examination. Mr. H. Donaldson reported an excursion 

 to Broomfleet, and exhibited a fossil sponge which he had procured from 

 the Laurentian deposit there. Mr. A. J. Moore, M.C.S., read an interesting 

 paper on " Some Local Freshwater Mollusca." The best collecting ground 

 in the Hull district is Sutton Drain. In this drain Ostrea edulis, Aguila 

 chrysaetus, can be procured, also the interesting species, mephitis mephitica.' 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association celebrated the 

 Darwin Centenary at its meeting on the 15th February. Mr. Harold 

 Wager, F.R.S., gave an address on ' Charles Darwin.' Mr. Wager exhibited 

 the Darwin- Wallace medal, while the President of the Club, Mr. W. Denison 

 Roebuck, F.L.S., exhibited a lithograph facsimile of the illuminated address 

 which the Yorkshire Naturalists presented (by deputation visiting Down) 

 to Mr. Darwin in 1880, in celebration of the ' Coming of Age ' of the ' Origin 

 of Species,' also the original letter from Mr. Darwin, acknowledging the 

 compliment. Afterwards a resolution was aujpted, congratulating Dr. 

 Alfred Russel Wallace on his living to see the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 reading of his and ]Mr. Darwin's papers to the Linnean Societ}'. 



The following will be the presidents at the meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation at Winnipeg from August 25th to September ist : — President — ■ 

 Professor Sir J. J. Thomson, F.R.S. ; Sectional Presidents — A (Mathe- 

 matical and Physical Science) — Professor E. Rutherford, F.R.S. ; B 

 (Chemistry). — Professor H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S. ; C (Geology) — Dr. A. 

 Smith Woodward, F.R.S. ; D (Zoology)— Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S. ; 

 E (Geography) — Colonel Sir Duncan A. Johnston, K.C.M.G. ; F (Economic 

 Science and Statistics) — Professor S. J. Chapman ; G (Engineering) — Sir 

 William H. White, K.C.B., F.R.S. ; H (Anthropology)— Professor J. L. 

 Myres ; I (Physiology) — Professor E. H. Starling, F.R.S. ; K (Botany) — 

 Lieu. -Colonel D. Prain, F.R.S. ; L (Educational Science) — Rev. Dr. H. B. 

 Gray ; and Sub-Section (Agriculture) — Major P. G. Craigie (chairman). 



Mr. Hans Schlesch, who has frequently favoured the Hull Museum with 

 mollusca, has now presented to that institution the whole of his extensive 

 collection of Land, Fresii-water, and Marine Shells. This collection is well 

 known for its completeness, and for the many type specimens it contains. 

 Mr. Schlesch has been a most enthusiastic collector, having' visited many 

 different coimtries to obtain specimens, and on g'iving' up his hobby he has 

 decided to favour the Hull Museum with the result of his life's work. The 

 collection contains specimens from France, Germany, Russia, Denmark, 

 and other parts of Europe ; China. Japan, India, the Piiilippines, New 

 Guinea, Australia, the United States, etc. Large cases containing many 

 thousand specimens have already been received, and the remaitider is on 

 the way. He has also presented his library of works bearing' upon the 

 specimens in tiie collection. 



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