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NORTHERN NEWS. 



E. Heron-Allen writes on ' Intelligence in the Protozoa,' in Nature,. 

 June 9th. 



Professor Walter Garstang has been elected a fellow of the Linnean 

 Society of London. 



The University of Durham has conferred the honorary degree of 

 D.Sc. upon Prof. A. Meek. 



The death is announced of Frederick T. Maidwell, F.G.S. He was 

 born at Gunnerside, in Swaledale, in 1872. 



According to The Geographical Teacher, No. 60, p. 19, the Geographers 



are to have a ' Summer Shoo ' at Guernsey, which sounds cooling anyway. 



Mr. Horace Donisthorpe writes on ' Nabis lativentris Boh., a 



myrmecophilous insect,' in The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for 



June. 



At the Annual Conference of the Museums Association held at Paris 

 in July, Mr. T. Sheppard, M.Sc, was elected by the Council as President 

 for 1922-23. 



Dr. J. W. H. Harrison has a paper on ' The Inheritance of Size in the 

 Crosses involving Oporabia autumnata and O. filigrammaria,' in The 

 Vasculmn for May. 



We notice The Entomologist refers to the Entomolooical Society : 

 possibly this has to do with the ' tomoloos ' Flint Jack used to profess 

 to examine for antiquities. 



Dr. Roger Verity has an essay on ' The Systematic Study of Variation 

 in the Races of Zvgaena filipendulae L. and of its subspecies stoechadis 

 Bukh.,' in The Entomologist's Record for May. 



N. F. Ticehurst writes on ' Former Breeding-places of the Oyster- 

 catcher and Black-headed Gull in East Sussex' ; and Stanley Crook 

 writes on ' The Rook,' in British Birds for June. 



Mr. R. S. Frampton, 37 Fonthill Rd., Finsbury Park, N. 4., has 

 issued a classified Catalogue of second hand books devoted to various 

 branches of history. The prices are remarkably low. 



A portrait and memoir of the late John Ray Hardy, and a valuable 

 series of new records for the area, relating to various branches of natural 

 history appear in The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist for May. 



Among the species figured in Part XXVII. of Buckman's Type 

 Ammonites we notice A. erugatiis (Psiloceras erugatiim), from Robin 

 Hood's Bay ; A. oculatus [Neiwiayriceras oculatiim), from Scarborough. 

 We observe that the formerly well-known list of ' Geological Literature 

 added to the Geological Society's Library ' for the year 1913, made its 

 appearance in June or July, 1921. We will not make any comments. 

 W. G. Sheldon has notes on ' Oxigrapha literana L. : its life-cycle, 

 distribution, and variation ' ; and H. Rowland-Brown describes Colias 

 edusa Fab. : its seasonal forms, varieties and aberrations,' in The 

 Entomologist for June. 



A correspondent writes : — 'In reference to the excerpt (p. 229) from 

 Chapel Cuckoo's works, is the Editor aware that about this time of the 

 year a Canary much resembles Grass, in that the Cat'U eat it ? ' The 

 answer is in the affirmative. 



Dr. Hugh R. Mill writes on ' The Value of Regional Geography ' ; W. 

 S. Lewis on ' The Evolution of the South-west ' [Devon and Cornwall] ; 

 and Grace E. Hutchinson on ' Population and Parishes in the Ravens- 

 bourne and Darent Basins ' in The Geographical Teacher, No. 60. 



The entomological collections formed by the late J. W. Carter have 

 been purchased by the Bradford Corporation for the Cartwright Memorial 

 Hall, which is the proper home for the collection. Not only docs this 

 series represent many valuable Yorkshire examples of lepidoptera, but 

 there are dragon-flies, beetles, bees, wasps, etc. The herbarium of 

 British Plants formed by the late Dr. Willis has also been added to the 

 Museum, having been given by the doctor's daughter. 



