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NORTHERN NEWS. 



The British Museum (Natural History) has issued a series ot eleveni 

 leaflets dealing with various Food F.conomy Plants, etc. 



Dr. David Forsyth, the president of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 

 has retired from the headmastership of the Leeds Central High School, 

 a position he has held for twenty-eight years. 



The Report of the Norwich Castle Museum, recently issued, contains 

 an excellent account of the work accomplished at that well-known In- 

 stitution, notwithstanding the fact that the staff has been considerably 

 depleted. 



Part 15 of Yorkshire Type Ammonites, by S. S. Buckman, has recently 

 appeared, price 3s. 6d., and contains figures and descriptions of 

 A . clevelandicus, A . elegans, A . ovatus, Bifericeras biferum, A . sedgwickii and 

 Beaniceras senile. 



Our readers will regret to hear of the sudden death of the wife of Dr. 

 H. H. Corbett, of Doncaster. Mrs. Corbett took a prominent part in the 

 work of the Doncaster Scientific Society and did a considerable amount 

 of good work in the town of her adoption. 



Notwithstanding the difficult times. The National Trust for Places of 

 Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, in its report recently issued, indicates 

 that the Society is still capable of carrying on its excellent work, and during 

 the year has made many valuable additions to this National collection. 



Prof. George Hickling's paper on ' The Geology of Manchester as 

 Revealed by Borings,' illustrated by a map, appears in The Transactions 

 of the Manchester Geological and Mining Society, Vol. XXXV., Parts 7 and 

 8. The same publication contains a record of the presentation of two 

 portraits of Prof. Boyd Dawkins, the ' father ' of the Society, and of 

 Mr. John Gerrard, who is an old and valuable member of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union. 



Mr. E. E. Lowe, Curator of the Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, 

 has been appointed Director of the Libraries there, in addition to his 

 other work. Recently the Art collections at Leeds and Worthing have 

 been put under the charge of the Librarian at each of these places, so that 

 Mr. Lowe's appointment over the important Libraries at Leicester some- 

 what balances matters. 



The Forty-seventh Annual Report of the Rochdale Public Libraries, 

 Art Gallery and Museum Committee records that practically nothing but 

 the ordinary necessary work has been done in the Museum for the year. 

 The Committee approve of the formation of a War Museum, and acknow- 

 ledge the receipt of the Geological collection, formed by the late W. H. 

 Sutcliffe, and also of 179 cases of British Birds and Animals (query mam- 

 mals) from Mr. Arnold Schofield. 



The Reprints from the Smithsonian Reports for 1916 consist of the 

 following interesting papers : — ' Pirates of the Deep — Stories of the Squid 

 and Octopus," by P. Bartsch ; ' The Economic Importance of the Diatoms,' 

 by A. Mann ; ' Theodore Nicholas Gill,' by W. H. Dall ; ' The Life and 

 Work of J. H. Fabre,' by E. L. Bouvier ; 'The Present State of the 

 Problem of Evolution,' by M. Caullery ; ' Some considerations on Sight 

 in Birds,' by J. C. Lewis; and ' Narcotic Plants and Stimulants of the 

 Ancient Americans,' by W. E. Safford. 



At a recent meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 

 Society, Mr. F. N. Pierce exhibited living larvae of Solenobia melanella and 

 Diplodoma ferchaultella from Northants., and pointed out that no male 

 of the latter species was known ; he drew attention to the differences in 

 the form of the larval case in each instance and the method of the feeding 

 of the larvae. Mr. W. Mansbridge shewed a long series of Lobophora 

 carpinata (lobulata) from Delamere parents, much suffused with fuscous 

 and green in both sexes, but more strongly in the females ; also a series 

 of ddontopera bidentata showing a continuous pale transverse line formed 

 by the joining up of the second series of spots. 



Naturalist, 



