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NORTHERN: NEWS. 
We regret to notice the announcement of the death of Rolan Trimen, 
Bet O25 ale ‘ES. 
Mr. G, Fenna writes on engaouar in Shakespeare,” in the Tournal 
and Tyvansactions of the Leeds Astronomical Society, No. 23. 
‘Special Leaflet No. 65’ can be obtained free from the Board of Agri- 
culture and Fisheries, at Whitehall Place, London, ‘and is devoted” to 
‘ Continuous Cropping. g 
In the Tvansactions of N orth Soa PRIS Field Club, Volume L., Mrg 
J. T. Stobbs gives a useful glossary of the geological terms in use in the 
North Staffordshire Coal-fields. 
The late J. A Harvie-Brown bequeathed his collection of books and 
manuscripts relating to the Natural History and Topography of Scotland 
as well as his natural history collections, to the Royal Scottish Museum, 
Edinburgh. 
The suggested Hagcursions of the Vorleshire Naturalists’ Union. for 
IQI7 are the : 
Garforth, Crosshills, CSaABEEET “Market Weighton. The fits foray 
is fixed for Helmsley. ; 
We are glad to welcome a publication from the Liverpool Museum. 
It is a ‘ Handbook and Guide to the Replicas and Casts of Manx. Crosses” 
there exhibited (20 pp., 4 plates, price one penny). There is a Preface 
by the Curator, Dr. J. A. Clubb ; and the descriptions are by Mr. P. M. C. 
Kermode, who has done so much to preserve the ancient stone crosses in 
the Isle of Man. 
We have received the following valuable contributions from ¢ our friend 
Mr. T. Petch, B.A. B.Sc., who is in the Botanic Gardens at Peradenirya :— 
The Pseudo-Sclerotia of Lentinus similis and Lentinus infundtbuliformis ; 
Some Abnormalities of the Coconut Palm; Horse-Hair Blights ; The 
Effect of Lightning on Coconut Palms; MHenaratgoda Experiments, 
Most of them are well illustrated. 
We are sure that all those who obtain so much enjoyment from rambles 
in the country, and who admire the ferns, primroses and violets growing 
in their natural surroundings will agree that strong measures should be 
taken to stop the trade carried on by those who merely go out to collect 
them for sale. In order to check the practice, we are glad to see that 
two of the horticultural journals, ‘The Gardeners’ Magazine’ and 
‘Amateur Gardening,’ have decided not to accept in future advertise- 
ments inviting orders by post for ferns and other wild plants, excepting 
from those who cultivate them for commerce. 
Part III. of A Bibliography of British Ornithology, by W.H. Mullens 
and H. K. Swann, appears with welcome promptitude (Macmillan & Co., 
pp. 241-384, 6s. net), Three other parts are yet to appear, The present 
instalment contains the names from Oxley Grabham to W. Markwick, 
afterwards Everfield. Mr. Grabham’s name is ‘included on account of 
his having written the Avifauna in the Victoria History of his county.’ 
Among the names included we notice the Gurneys, J. H. Harvie-Brown, 
C. C. P. Hobkirk, John Richard Jefferies, Jourdain, the Keartons, Pro- 
fessor Lebour, R. Lydekker, MacGillivray and H. A. Macpherson. 
We are glad to see that the number of books on natural history subjects 
is at last having some effect on the members of the book trade. The 
following letter appears in a recent issue of The Publishers’ Circular :— 
“In an editorial note in your issue of the 9th inst., an exceedingly stupid 
mistake occurs, which shows the writer’s utter ignorance of human physi- 
ology. I refer to the ‘‘curate’s egg.” Let it be stated, Sir, now and for 
alltime, that it was not the curate’s egg. It was the hen’s,—Your obedient 
servant, R. ATKINSON. P.S.—It might have been a duck’s egg. I 
would not pledge myself to what it was, but only to what it was not.’ 
. Naturalist,’ 

