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Azotes and Comments. 



account of ' Cleveland in English History ' ; Mr. T. A. Loft- 

 house writes ' Bird Notes in the Albert Park, Middlesbrough,' 

 and ' Table of Summer Migrants observed in Middlesbrough 

 district from 1882 to 1907 ' ; and an Obituary Notice of the late 

 Rev. J. C. Fowler. ; M. Lawson Thompson gives the result of 

 five years' work among the ' Colcoptcra observed in Cleve- 

 land.' What is described as a ' Summary of Secretaries' 

 Reports, 1914-1919,' is a list of the meetings and excursions, 

 which occupies two pages. The balance sheet shows that the 

 Society is favourably situated, financially. 



NEWSPAPER NATURAL HISTORY. 



For some time we have been pained, and sometimes 



amused, at the awful piffle 

 appearing in some of our 

 daily papers under the 

 guise of ' Nature Notes,' 

 and even people holding 

 responsible positions in 

 public institutions have 

 poured out their drivel — 

 not always to the credit 

 of the institutions ! But 

 wc think ' the limit ' has 

 been reached in the illus- 

 tration which we reproduce 

 herewith, as it appeared in 

 a paper called The Daily 

 Mail, dated February i6th. 

 We have put it precisely 

 as it appears in the news- 

 paper — to show the total 

 disregard of the law of 

 gravity which, the 'tasty 



piece of fat hung on a string ' has. The words underneath 



this remarkable illustration are — 



' A Nature Note. — The bat is not often seen in the 



daytime, but a tasty piece of fat hung on a string in the 



garden will lure him from his diurnal retreat.' 



To mistake a bird for a mammal is bad enough, but to 



caricature our friend the Titmouse in this way, and then to 



call it a ' Nature Note,' is really too much. 



YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGISTS. 



Part 100 of The Yorkshire Archceological Journal is 

 principally occupied by a careful architectural description of 

 St. Mary's Church, Beverley, by John Bilson. There is a 

 short note on ' The British Remains of Hinderwell Beacon,' 

 accompanied by illustrations of stones, many of which are 



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