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NORTHERN NEWS. 



The death is announced of Col. H. W. Feilden, naturalist and student 

 of glacial geology. 



A specimen of Oxigrapha liter ana L., is recorded for Lancashire 

 {The Entomologist, August). 



R. Standen writes on ' Squirrels eating Fungi ' in The Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Naturalist for June, received August ist. 



Miss N. F. Layard has found a ' Prehistoric Cooking-place in Norfolk,' 

 which she considers to be neolithic in date {Nature, July 14th, p. 623). 



D. C. Campbell writes on ' The Time of Singing of Birds,' and Prof. 

 G. A. J. Cole on 'The ^^leteorite of Crumlin, Co. Antrim, 1902,' in The 

 Irish Naturalist for July. 



The Geographical Teacher, No. 59, includes ' Forms of Mediaeval 

 Settlements in England,' by W. Page ; and 'The Iron Industry of South 

 Wales,' by A. E. Trueman. 



The Museums Journal for August contains Sir Frederic Kenyon's 

 Presidential Address to the Museums Association delivered at Paris, 

 entitled ' Museums in Modern Life.' 



At a recent meeting of the Entomological Society of London, Mr. 

 H. J. Donisthorpe exhibited two examples of Cionus new to science, 

 swept near Lake Windermere a few years since bv the Rev. Canon T. 

 Wood. 



Part XI. of Witherby's Practical Handbook of British Birds appeared 

 on July i8th (Vol II., pp. 177-256, 4/6 net). Besides the usual des- 

 criptions of birds, it contains an excellent coloured plate of the heads of 

 various swans and geese. 



Wliat is erroneously described as ' the finest example of a neolithic 

 flint axe-head hitherto found in this (Harrogate) neighbourhood ' is 

 referred to in The Yorkshire Archceological Journal, No. 102. One at 

 least, much finer, is figured in Hull Museums Publications, No. 88, p. 3. 



H. B. Booth has a note on the Status of the Arctic Tern in Lancashire 

 and the Fames, in British Birds for July. In the same Journal, T. L. 

 Smith has an illustrated paper on 'Ringed Plover's Nests,' and C. 

 E. Alford on ' Diving Ducks : Some Notes on their Habits and Court- 

 ship.' 



We have received Bulletin No. 2 of the Carmichael iVIedical College, 

 Belgachia, India, which contains two valuable and exceptionally well 

 illustrated papers, (i) ' Polyporacea; of Bengal,' by S. R. Bose ; (2) 

 ' Infusoria from the Environment of Calcutta,' by Professor E. N. 

 Ghosh. 



British Birds for August contains ' Notes on the Little Tern and 

 Young,' ' Some rare birds breeding in Lincolnshire,' ' Breeding of Great 

 Spotted Woodpecker in Cumberland,' ' Little Owl in Lancashire,' 

 ' Fulmar Petrel in Yorkshire,' and 'A Sixteenth Century Portrait of the 

 Pheasant,' with illustrations. 



The Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society i^ccently issued 

 its Report covering the years 1913 to 1919, the Society having decided 

 to suspend its annual publication until after the war. The present 

 Report is quite a substantial record of the manifold activities of this 

 useful Society, and convinces us that it is worthy of every possible 

 support. 



Discovery has made another discovery — a new editor — Mr. E. Livening, 

 whose first editorial is in praise of his predecessor. Otherwise the 

 journal is much the same. The proprietor, Mr. John Murray, who has 

 made the appointment, informs us that Mr. Livening is ' the author of 

 Attack (a description of his experience as an infantry officer in the Battle 

 of the Somme), and well known for his contributions to fiction.' 



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