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NORTHERN NEWS. 



The List of Members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union appearing in 

 this number is printed through the kindness of a Past-President of the 

 Union, Mr. W. N. Cheesman, J. P. 



Mr. R. W. Goulding, F.S.A,, favours us with ' Notes on Books and 

 Pamphlets printed in Louth, 1801-1850,' which is a remarkable record 

 for this comparatively small township, and speaks well for the industry 

 of the compiler in gathering the various facts together. 



Mr. Mark L. Sykes, whose papers on Lepidoptera are well known 

 to Manchester and Leeds Naturalists', has presented a collection of over 

 2000 insects to the Leeds University, including some cases of gorgeous 

 exotic butterflies, also specimens illustrating Mimicry, a subject Mr. 

 Sykes has made his own. 



The Transactions of the London Natural History Society, 1919 (45 pp., 

 3s.), besides the usual reports of the various sections, contains the 

 Annual Report on the Birds of Epping Forest ; the President's Address 

 on ' Wing Colour in Butterflies and Moths,' and a paper by H. B. Williams 

 on ' Parallelism in Variation in Butterflies.' 



The editor of a contemporary, according to the leading article in the 

 November issue, is not quite sure whether ' the character of a curate 

 appears in "The Private Secretary" or in "Charley's Aunt."' We 

 certainly think in the profound scientific discussions which occur in that 

 journal, an important matter of this kind might at least have been 

 ver j tied . 



The correspondence columns of the daily papers have recently con- 

 tained articles dealing with Sun Temples and Bruanburgh Battles. 

 Personally we should be grateful if the gentlemen who write about the 

 sites of battlefields found in tunnels, and altars for bloody sacrifices on 

 hill tops, would give us even a reasonable amount of evidence for the 

 extraordinary theories which they propound. 



The London Museum, St. James's, has issued a ' Guide to the Pre- 

 historic Room ' (11 pages, 3d.), which is rather different from the usual 

 type of Museum Guides, inasmuch as it is a running lecture or talk on the 

 various objects exhibited in this particular room, reference to the in- 

 dividual specimens being made by means of their numbers in parenthesis. 

 The Guide is not broken up by references to cases or anything of that 

 kind. 



Dr. Marie Stopes, in Vol. XLIV. of the Linnean Society's Journal 

 (Botany), describes in detail ' Bennettites Scottii sp. nov., a European 

 Petrification with Foliage.' Her paper is based on a specimen without 

 any history, which was transferred from the Botanical department in 

 1898 to the Geological department of the British Museum. This species 

 has been carefully sliced, and an interesting description of the plant 

 structure has been described as a result. 



Vol. LXIII. of The Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, 1918-19, contains five valuable 

 memoirs, four of which are of particular interest to our readers, though 

 the first three were published separately during 1919. : — ' The Herbarium 

 of John Dalton,' by R. S. Adamson and A. McK. Crabtree ; ' The Ancient 

 Legend as to the Hedgehog carrying Fruits upon its Spines,' by M. 

 Christy ; ' On a New Middle Carboniferous Nautiloid,' by J. W. Jackson ; 

 ' Henry Wilde,' by Prof. W. W. Haldane Gee. 



Referring to our notes in the last issue, we learn from the daily press 

 that ' Clement Edwards, M.P., is very proud of the prehistoric flint which 

 he found while on holiday in Berkshire. It contains, he claims, 83 

 diflferent carvings upon it, done some time in the Palaeolithic Age. He is 

 always finding a new one. It proves that there were Epsteins even when 

 we wore skins. Mr. Edwards keeps it in the members' cloakroom, and 

 brings it out to be admired whenever you like.' From this it seems clear 

 that he does think the Hint is the work of Palaeolithic I\Ian ! 



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