2 Notes and Comments. 
Herdman, D.Sc., F.R.S., Andrew Scott, A.L.S. and James 
Johnstone, D.Sc., as well as the L.M.B.C. Memoir on ‘ Tubifex,’ 
by Gertrude C. Dixon, B.Sc. The last item is of special value, 
and is accompanied by seven excellent plates. The report 
throughout is illustrated by several interesting blocks, one of 
which, showing ‘Twinned Lobster Larve hatched at Port 
Erin,’ we are kindly permitted to reproduce. 
GLIMPSES OF WILD LIFE. 
Messrs. Virtue & Co., City Road, London, have issued an 
admirable series of fifty stereoscopic photographs taken from 
nature by H. Cox, F.Z.S. The photographs are chiefly of 
various phases of bird life. These are neatly packed in a 
suitable box, together with a well-made stereoscope, and in 
addition is a handbook giving descriptions of the photographs. 
The collection is sold at a guinea, and would be suitable for a 
very acceptable present. They are only sold by Messrs. 
Virtue & Co., direct. 
EXIT THE ANTIQUARY. 
We are sorry to find the following note in The Antiquary 
for November: -‘ The Publisher of The Antiquary regrets to 
be compelled to announce that, owing to lack of sufficient 
support, he is unable to continue the publication of the maga- 
zine. The December number will be the last.’ For the past 
thirty-six years this journal has been regularly published 
monthly, by Elliot Stock, under various editors, the present 
being the fifty-first volume. The Antiguary has done much to 
encourage the study of antiquities, by the publication of 
original articles and by reviews and summaries of the various 
volumes and societies’ Transactions of antiquarian interest. 
Many northern writers have been encouraged by the journal, 
especially by the present editor, Mr. G. L. Apperson. It 
seems strange that there are not sufficient people interested 
to support one popular antiquarian journal. Time was when 
there were several. We shall miss the familiar quotation from 
Goldsmith on the cover of the journal, which came before us 
each month: ‘I love everything that’s old; old friends, old 
times, old manners, old books, old wine,’ and the passing of 
an old friend like The Antiquary makes one feel still older. 
NORTHERN MINES AND QUARRIES. 
Some interesting statistics in reference to the output of 
mines and quarries in the north of England are given in Mr. 
J. R. R. Wilson’s report, which appears in The Quarry for 
November. The information in reference to the output of 
the various rocks and minerals is summarised in two useful 
tables, which we take the liberty of quoting :— 
Naturalist, 
