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ci'iptions, no difficulty will be found in recognizing any species. We 

 note that several species new to Britain are recorded from Yorkshire. 

 This should encourage local collectors to further efforts, our county has 

 never had the thorough search given to many of its neighbours, and the 

 upper reaches of the Wharfe, Aire and Ribble may be considered as 

 practically unexplored country. Lichens are allied with Fungi and have 

 attracted the attention of Mycological Societies in England. The Myco- 

 logical Section of the Yorkshii^e Naturalists' Union and the British 

 Mycological Society have both appointed leaders or referees on the 

 subject. It is therefore to be hoped that members during their Forays 

 will give attention to Lichens as well as to Fungi. To young students 

 and collectors, unbiased by old classifications, these two volumes will be 

 of inestimable value, and certainly will remain the standard British 

 Lichen Flora for many years to come. — Thos. Hebden. 



NORTHERN NEWS, etc. 



In Bvitish Birds for October a Caspian Tern is recorded for Sussex. 

 It was taken in June, 1916, was duly ' seen in the flesh,' and the record 

 is now made public. 



The Annual Meeting of the Union will be held at the University, Leeds, 

 on Saturday, December 7th, commencing at 2-30 p.m. The title of the 

 Presidential Address by Prof. Garstang is ' Nature and Man.' 



In The Entomologist for October Mr. Claude Morley writes on the 

 ' Confirmation of Trigonalys hahni, of the Hymenopterous Family Trigon- 

 ahdae, as British,' on the evidence of a specimen taken at Doncaster by Dr. 

 Corbett. 



Our readers will much regret to hear of the sudden death of Miss Maude 

 Seymour, whose duties in the Library of the Geological Society of London 

 frequently brought her into touch with geologists throughout the country, 

 to whom her knowledge of geological literature was so helpful. 



Among the well illustrated Natural History articles now appearing in 

 various journals, we notice the following, all by our contributor, Mr. Riley 

 Fortune, F.Z.S. : — ' The Ruff and Reeve,' in The Badmington Magazine 

 for October, 191 8 ; ' The Curlew in Yorkshire,' in The Illustrated Sporting 

 and Dramatic News, October 26th, 1918 ; ' Seals on the North-east Coast,' 

 in Country Life, November 9th, 1918. 



The Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and. Philosophical 

 Society, Vol. LXIL, Part i, includes the following items : — ' Presidential 

 Address,' bv William Thomson ; ' Natural and Artificial Partheno- 

 genesis in Animals," by D. Ward Cutler ; ' The Organisation of Museums 

 and Art Galleries in Manchester,' by W. Boyd Dawkins. Mr. Thompson's 

 address deals with the Society in its earliest days. 



We regret to note the death of Canon Alfred Merle Norman, M.A., 

 LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., who was born in 1831. He was a medallist 

 of the ' Institute ' of France, and in 1906 received the Linnean Society's 

 Gold Medal. He was a past-president of the Conchological Society 

 and of the Museums Association. We learn from The Times that ' He was 

 the most active of sea dredgers, ranging over the North Sea to the fjords 

 of Norway, the Shetlands, and away into the Atlantic. By his own 

 dredging cruises he accumulated a vast collection, of which he issued a 

 catalogue in several parts, under the title of " Museum Normannianum." 

 This collection was ultimately acquired by the Trustees of the British 

 Museum. It includes about 6,000 Crustacea, many of them the types of 

 specifes, about 3,500 sponges, of which many are type-specimens, 300 or 

 so tunicales, comprising the types of Alder and Hancock, besides thousands 

 of echinoderms, corals, and other groups.' Years ago, Canon Norman 

 frequently favoured The Naturalist with particulars of his researches 

 among the crustaceans, etc., of the waters adjoining the north-east coasts. 



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