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NORTHERN NEWS. 
Mr. Bernard Smith has ‘Some Notes on the Topography of North- 
East Nottinghamshire’ in Vol. XIV. of the Transactions of the Thoroton 
Society, recently issued. 
We have received some parts of a small journal ‘Camping, the Official 
Organ of the Amateur Camping Club’. | It contains notes, etc. of interest 
to those who enjoy a holiday under canvas. 
Dr. E. Thurlow Leeds, has an interesting paper on ‘ Examples of Late 
Anglo-Saxon Metal-Work,’ in the Annals of Archeology and Anthropology, 
Vol. IV., part 1, issued by the University of Liverpool. 
A monthly magazine has an article on its coloured plate entitled 
‘Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly.’ The plate itself, however, is described as 
‘Blindworm, or Glowworm’. It certainly does not represent a butterfly. 
We have been favoured with a reprint from the Proceedings of the Royal 
Ivish Academy dealing with the ‘ Pseudoscorpions of Clare Island.’ It 
is by our contributor, Mr. H. Wallis Kew. Apparently pseudoscorpions 
are unusually scarce on the island, though it is what might be expected 
from the nature of its physical features. 
From Mr, J. E. Stead, F.R.S., we have received a remarkably complete 
monograph on ‘ Cleveland Ironstone and Iron,’ a paper read before the 
Cleveland Institution of Engineers, February 7th, 1910. This is illustrated 
by photographs shewing the microscopic structure of the beds, etc. 
There is also a valuable series of analyses of the rocks. 
Mr. H. M. Platnauer’s Presidential Address to the Museums Association 
at Brighton is printed in the Museums Journal (Vol. Il., No. 1). In the 
same magazine Mr. C. O. Waterhouse writes on ‘ The Insect Room in the 
British Museum (Natural History). He not unnaturally complains of 
the present inadequate accommodation for the national collection of 
insects. 
Amongst others who have recently passed away we regret to notice 
the name of Mr. G. W. Murdoch of Bentham. Mr. Murdoch was the 
editor of the Natural History Column of the Yorkshive Weekly Post. He 
was a member and a strong supporter of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, 
and frequently gave the Union and this journal favourable mention in the 
various newspapers with which he was connected. He was a naturalist 
of the true sort, and a keen upholder of those who helped to protect the 
birds and mammals of our island. 
What is a ‘ Giccazd of house cricket ’ One is figured in a ‘ natural 
history ’ contemporary, but is not eee The same journal refers to 
a recently formed ‘F. S. B. K.’ (Faithful Society of Birthday Keepers), 
and suggests that ‘ branches might be formed all over the country,’ with 
Crickhowell as a centre! We quite agree that ‘ the scheme seems entirely 
worthy of adoption as a branch of the B. E. N. A.’, whatever that may 
mean. The idea seems worthy of extension, and as a further branch we 
might suggest a N. S. G. F. N. B. S. (No Sour Gooseberries [or ‘ grapes ’] 
For Naughty Boys’ Society)! 
In connection with the recent correspondence in reference to the 
suggestion that part of the ground available for extension of the Natural 
History Museum at South Kensington should be utilized for another 
purpose, we were surprised:to see in Nature, under the signature of a 
leading scientific authority, a statement to the effect that ‘The 
Natural History Museum, dealing with the works of nature, is already an 
old institution, and has largely completed its general collection.’ This 
may apply to the meteorites, with which the writer in Nature may possibly 
be familiar, but it certainly does not apply to a collections generally, 
which are anything but ° complete.’ 
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