Notes and Comments. 



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by W. Mansbridge ; The Lepidoptera of Wicken Fen (Presi- 

 dential Address), by S. P. Doudney ; A Year's Collecting of 

 Macro-Lepdioptera, by S. Gordon Smith ; and a further 

 instalment of Lancashire and Cheshire Lepidoptera. Some 

 yearsTago the Society published a list of the Coleoptera of the 

 two counties. A supplement has now been prepared, and 

 will be sent to any Yorkshire subscriber to the first list, on 

 application to Mr. Mansbridge. 



BRITISH MAMMALS, ETC.* 



Messrs. Warne & Co. have published a remarkably cheap 

 volume dealing with the British vertebrate fauna, (with the 

 exception of the birds which have already been described 



' The Harvest Mouse. 



recently by Coward, in two handsome volumes, published by 

 the same house) . The present work is from the pen of Edward 

 Step, well known to our readers, and his descriptions are 

 illustrated by more than a hundred plates, nearly half of 

 which are coloured. 



BRADFORD AND EDUCATION. 



We should like ^to congratulate the Director of Education 

 in Bradford upon the excellent way in which he is helping the 

 various scientific societies in his city, as by so doing he is 

 certainly helping forward the cause he has so much at heart — 

 education. He has issued the Summer Programme of the 

 ' Federation of Educational Societies,' the scope of which 



* ' Animal Life of the British Isles.' A Complete Pocket Guide to 

 the Mammals, Reptiles and Batrachians of Wayside and Woodland. By 

 Edward Step. London : F. Warne & Co., 184 pp., 10/6 net. 



1921 Oct. 1 



