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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
NEWCASTLE NATURALISTS. 
The Tyvansactions of the Natural History Society of North- 
umberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne contain the 
following papers :—' Megalichthys,’ a study incorporating 
the results of work on previously undescribed material, by 
Rev. S. G. Birks; ‘Two Newly-discovered Whin-Dykes on 
the Coast of Northumberland,’ by J. A. Smythe ; ‘ Terrestrial 
micarh vol. thes siynes Province,’ by the Rev. -f..(E) Hulk 
In his elaborate paper on Megalichthys the Rev. S. G. Birks 
describes an enormous number of specimens, but he would 
certainly save students considerable time if he explained 
which of these observations (if any) are new. His biblio- 
graphy is pathetic, but it includes a reference to a paper by 
the Rev. S. G. Birks. The plates, by Messrs. Gill & Fletcher, 
are excellent. Dr. Smith’s contribution on the newly dis- 
covered Whin-dykes is of value, and the numerous records by 
Mr. Bagnall and others, and the Rev. J. M. Hicks’ report of 
the Field Meetings for Ig11I-2, contain many interesting 
records. 
SHEFFIELD ARCHZOLOGISTS. 
We have received the Tvansactions of the Hunter Archeo- 
logical Society (Sheffield), Vol. I., No. 2; a valuable publication, 
which has been carefully edited. There is no doubt that as time 
goes on, this publication will occupy an important place in 
the literature of the county. Among the contributors are 
57 O/ Addy ky a Leader, \G eA. SGarhtt, Wi?) Dickie; J.B: 
Mitchell Withers and J. R. Wigfull. Among the papers we 
notice ‘ A Book on Feudal Aids made for the Earl of Shrews- 
bury in 1451, ‘ The Castle Hill,’ ‘ The Court leet of the Manor 
of Sheffield,’ ‘ Wentworth Woodhouse,’ and ‘ Literature and 
Archeology in Sheffield a Hundred Years ago.’ The last 
item is distinctly refreshing, and includes the following :— 
‘ There is in existence an egregious volume entitled ‘“‘ The Life 
and Death of Llewellynn Jewitt, with fragmentary memoirs 
of his famous literary and artistic friends,” etc. It is bya 
certain William Henry Goss (with, of course, a portrait of the 
author). Llewellynn Jewitt became, I need hardly say, a 
well-known antiquary, and the first editor of The Reliquary. 
By some piece of posthumous ill-luck the telling of the story 
of his “‘ Life and Death”’ fell into the hands of the self- 
advertising Goss, and the result is a book which, with its 
farrago of irrelevances, of fatuities, and of impertinent, ego- 
tistical intrusions is, without exception, the sheerest twaddle 
that ever masqueraded under the name of biography. In 
saying this I do not forget the seven volumes through which 
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