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of the various orders of insects, on which the occurrence of 

 the insect can be marked with a red dot. If the maps are 

 sufficiently small they can be index-filed, and a separate 

 card kept for each species. At any rate, this might be done 

 for Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera 

 aculeata. 



The Botanical Survey Committee might be asked to assist 

 in the matter of preparing Botanical maps. 



The Yorkshire Post for January 28th records a Little Auk at Silsden. 



We see the Selborne Society is to meet in Leicester Square. For this 

 excursion no leader is appointed. 



Mr. J. F. Musham informs us that early in February a living wall- 

 gecho reached Selby ni a ra-o of oranges. 



The Entomological Society of London has now its own premises in 

 Queen's Gate, near the Natural History Museum, London. 



'The Appendages, Anatomy and Relationships of Trilobites,' by 

 P. E. Raymond, is the title of an elaborately illustrated memoir issued 

 by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



Mr. Charles Upton, a local naturalist, has been appointed Curator 

 to the Gloucester Museum, and Mr. H. W. Ricketts, of the Sunderland 

 Museum, has been appointed deputy -curator at West Hartlepool. 



We are glad to learn that in the future the parts of The New Phytologist 

 will be numbered one to five, in each year, and the double-numbers and 

 the consequent necessity for complicated references will be dispensed 

 with . 



In a Guide to the Collection of Irish Antiquities recently issued, 

 Mr. E. C. R. Armstrong gives a catalogue of the Irish Gold Ornaments 

 in the Collection of the Royal Irish Academy. There are nearly 500 

 illustrations, and the Guide is sold at the remarkably low price of 2s. 



The first annual silver medal awarded by the Yorkshire Numismatic 

 Society at its recent annual meeting bears the inscription : ' First Annual 

 Medal' presented to Mr. T. Sheppard, M.Sc, F.G.S., F.S.A., Scot., by 

 the Yorkshire Numismatic Society for valuable Services rendered and 

 for his Researches in Yorkshire Numismatics.' 



We learn from the press that M. L'Abbe Breull, the great student of 

 the ' pre-history ' of man, is going to lecture in London on his discoveries 

 It was M. L'Abbe who found signs of prehistoric man at Bacon Hole, in. 

 Glamorganshire, some years ago. He found paint marks of vivid red on 

 a cave side. He said it was the work of man 40,000 years ago, but other 

 folk testified that one Johnny Bale, a local fisherman, made the marks 

 when cleaning his paint brushes. 



MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS OF BIRDS 

 NEAR HULL. 



E. W. WADE, M.B.O.U. 



In the neighbourhood of Hull, which is in the track of the 

 Autumn and Spring Migrations of birds, the problems connected 

 with these movements must always engage the attention of 



