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 NORTHERN NEWS. 



Our contributor, 'Sir. H. H. Thomas, has been re-elected Fellow of 

 Downing College, Cambridge. 



The Report for the year 1020-21 of the Director (Alex. O. Curie), 

 the Royal Scottish ^Museum, Edinburgh, [z^ pp., 6d.) has been published. 



Cheltenham INIuseum Publication, No. I., is entitled ' Notes on the 

 Rock Specimens in the JMuseum,' and is by Capt. R. P. Wild (49 pp 

 6d.) 



The rope by which criminals were hanged on Benenden Heath has 

 been presented to the IMaidstone ]\Iuseum by Canon Horsley. We hope 

 Mr. AUchin will put it safely away. 



We are glad to see that the Scarborough Philosophical and Archaeological 

 Society keeps the continuity of its Reports by the publication of those for 

 1915-1919, together in one cover (8 pp.). 



Among some fossils, etc., for sale in a recent catalogue we notice 

 'Echinus, or micraster, with bedding,' 'Pagurns,' ' Gonialibas,' and 

 chrysoprase. It seems an interesting collection ! 



Dr. Collinge, of the ^Museum, York, would be glad to receive any 

 species or varieties of Terrestrial Isopoda (Woodlice) from Yorkshire, in 

 connexion with a monograph he has in hand. 



Mr. S. jNIatthewman favours us with a copy of his interesting poems, 

 entitled ' The Gardens of Meditation,' published in Leeds — one or two 

 of which we remember having read previously. 



The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture for September contains two 

 papers of particular importance to naturalists, viz., ' Scarcity of Swal- 

 lows,' by H. Boase, and ' Raspberry Gall Fly,' by H. W. Miles. 



We learn from the Linnean Society's Circular, No. 391, that ,' Piloholus 

 may well be described as a fungus with an optical sense-organ or simple 

 eye ; and, in using its eye for laying its gun, it appears to be unique in 

 the plant world.' 



' Sherbornina, a new genus of Fossil Foraminifera from Table Cape, 

 Tasmania,' is the title of a paper read the other day before the Linnean 

 Society by F. Chapman, the new genus being called after our contributor, 

 C. Davies Sherborn. 



Dr. B. Muriel Bristol gives ' Some Aspects of the Work of the late 

 Professor G. S. West, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S.' in part 4 of Vol. XIV. of 

 The Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society, recently published. 



We have received the Report of the Somerset County Museum for the 

 past year, which contains details of numerous additions. The heading 

 (p. 11), ' Animals, Birds, Insects, etc' should read ' Mammals,' etc., 

 as surely birds and insects are aninials ? 



The Report of the Castle JMuseum Committee of Norwich, recently to 

 hand, contains a portrait (with memoir,) of the late James Reeve, F.G.S., 

 who was 'officially connected with the museum for seventy-three years.' 

 The report also contains a list of additions, etc. 



In October was published Part XII. of Witherby's excellent Practical 

 Handbook to British Birds (pp. 257-352, 4/6). It is devoted to the 

 Ducks, and contains numerous illustrations, including a really fine 

 coloured plate of the wing coverts, etc., of several of the species dealt with. 

 We have received No. i of the Bulletin of the Carmichael Medical 

 College at Belgachia. It deals with the Fvmgi of Bengal, is very well 

 illustrated, and the author, S. R. Bose, expresses his deep sense of grati- 

 tude ' To ^Ir Pctch, the famous mycologist of the Botanic Gardens 

 Herbarium, Ceylon.' 



The Wackerlield Dyke, County Durham, is described by A. Holmes 

 and Stanley Smith in The Geological Magazine for October. "The same 

 journal also contains a paper ' On a Local Alteration in Limestone Shales 

 at Wensley, Derbyshire,' by C. S. Garnett, who blames ozone for some of 

 the phenomena noted. 



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