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PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries has recently issued Jeaflets 
dealing with Pruning Fruit Trees, Fruit Bottling, and ‘Couch’ or ‘Twish,;* 
The Animals’ Friend Society, (York House, Portugal Street, Kingsway, 
London), has issued a pamphlet ‘ The Hunted Otter,’ by Mr. J. Collinson. 
It refers to the cruelty of otter hunting, and gives some information in 
reference to the natural history of the species. The pamphlet is sold at 2d) 
Vol. V,, No. 2, of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club (pp. 91-172) 
is a record of the Society’s meetings and excursions for I1909-10,. The 
abstracts of papers deal with Lake Dwellings, Plants of Palestine, Shrews- 
bury Castle, The Origin of Wheat, etc.; and ‘ Two Old Shropshire 
Naturalists.’ ; 
The Thirty-fourth Annual Report and Proceedings of the Lancashire 
and Cheshire Entomological Society is smaller than usual, as the Society 
is saving its funds for the publication of an important monograph, There 
is a record of the exhibits at the Society’s meetings, a plate shewing Hydroe- 
cla cyinanensis and its ova, and a portrait of Mr. P. F. Tinne. 
From the Belfast Museum we have received publication No. 26, ‘ The 
Scope and Value of an Irish Provincial Museum,’ by Mr. Alec. Wilson, 
which is ‘ printed with Irish Ink on Irish Paper.’ This pamphlet is illus- 
trated by plates, shewing the evolution of the spiral, etc. ; and No. 27, the 
‘Quarterly Notes,’ No. 18 (one penny) which deals with tokens, medals, 
and querns., 
The Transactions and Journal of Proceedings of the Dumfriesshire and 
Galloway Natural History Society, N.S., Vol. XXII., for 1909-10 (256 pp.), 
has recently appeared and contains particulars of the papers read at 
the Society’s meetings, and full reports of the excursions. The subjects 
dealt with are both local and general; and antiquities, geology, botany, 
zoology, meteorology, etc., come within the scope of the Society’s work. 
We cannot refer to all the papers, but Mr. J. A. Fairley’s ‘ Autobiographical 
Notes, by Thomas Murray, etc.,’ Mr. R. Wallace’s ‘ Geology of the Cluden 
Basin,’ the late R. Service’s ‘ Notes on the Starling,’ and Mr. W. H. Armi- 
stead’s ‘ Trawling in the Solway,’ call for special notice. 
The Eighty-eighth Report of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical 
Society contains particulars of a few additions made during the year ; 
meteorological tables ; a list of the ‘Oolite Fossil Plants found in the 
Whitby Cliffs, together with the Museum numbers of the specimens, ex- 
hibited in the Whitby Museum.’ which we understand is the work of 
Mr. T. Newbitt. There is also a ‘ description of a small ironstone smelting 
furnace found on the moors near Whitby.’ This is put forward as the 
probable origin of the many so-called British Dwellings. -tc., in the 
neighbourhood. As a frontispiece is an admirable illustrat of Hangia 
beantt taken from Mr. Buckman’s monograph on Yorkshire mmonites. 
The Ninth Annual Report of the Horniman Museum . Library, 
Forest Hill, S.E., is very encouraging. The list of addition long one, 
and ethnology, as usual, takes a prominent place. Plates su. «1 Ciunese 
Ivory Carving, a West African ‘ Nail-Fetish,’ and the ‘ Introductory Case 
to the Swimming Series.’ The classification of the List of Additions to. 
the Library is peculiar. There is first a ‘ List of Additions (an asterisk 
following a title indicates that the publication was presented unbound)’ ; 
then follows ‘Unbound Publications, Publications received by gift or 
exchange’; and ‘Unbound Publications Purchased.’ These three lists 
have to be perused before one can be certain as to any particular addition. 
Might we suggest that these additions be given in one list; those ‘ pre- 
sented unbound’ being marked with an asterisk, and those ‘ purchased 
‘unbound’ being marked with a dagger, if such distinctions are really 
necessary. 
Naturalist, 
