370 Northern News. 



A NEW SPECIES. 



The following is the description given by Mr. Tutcher : — 

 ' Mytilus cloacinus sp. no v. Anterior outline slightly arcuate, 

 ventral margin rounded, posterior margin gently convex, as 

 far as the hinge line, which is straight, and equals one-third 

 the length of the shell ; beak angle, 40 degrees ; valves ob- 

 tusely carinated from the beaks to the antero-ventral border, 

 sloping evenly from the carina to the posterior margin, and 

 sharply on the anterior sides ; growth halts well marked. 

 The specimens are generally casts ; some fragments of the 

 shell which have been observed do not exhibit any ornament. 

 Dimensions : — length, 42 mm., width, 21 mm., thickness, 12 

 mm. ; geological position, lower Rhaetic. The specimen figured 

 is a nearly complete cast from the bone bed at Aust Cliff. 

 Examples have also been collected from the bone beds at 

 Sedbury and at Charlton. This fossil appears' to be not un- 

 common on the bone bed horizon, but, as far as I can discover, 

 it has been found at no other level.' 



PROFESSOR p. F. KENDALL. 



Our readers will be pleased to hear that a member of 

 the Editorial staff of The Naturalist has been selected for the 

 position of President of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 

 which for the past half century had been held by the late 

 Marquis of Ripon. Professor Kendall's excellent work in 

 Yorkshire, as well as the great influence he has personally 

 had in furthering geological study in the county, have been 

 such that his selection as President of the County Society was 

 an easy matter. We only hope that his connection with the 

 Yorkshire Society may be as long as that of the late Marquis 

 of Ripon. Professor Kendall was President of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union a few years ago. 



The Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union will be held 

 at Scarborough on Saturday, December nth. 



In the index to ' Bookprices Current ' just issued, we find the first 

 entry on page 688 is ' Entomology (continued) : Pearson, W. H., Hepa- 

 tic3e of the British Isles.' One wonders what the position of these insects 

 is from a Cataloguer's point of view. 



Sir Thomas H. Holland, K.C.I. E., F.R.S., has been appointed to the 

 Chair of Geology at the University of Manchester, in the place of Prof. 

 W. Boyd Dawkins, who has resigned. Prof. Dawkins served on the 

 Geological Survey between 1861 and 1869, and was appointed curator of 

 the Manchester Museum and lecturer in geology at Owen's College in 1870, 

 and Professor of Geology and Palaeontology on the foundation of the 

 Manchester University. 



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