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NORTHERN NEWS. 



The new President of the Bradford Scientific Association is Miss Mary 

 A. Johnstone, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



Mr. W. A. E. Ussher, F.G.S., has retired from the Geological Survey, 

 after forty-one year's service. 



Mr. H. J. Wheldon has ' A Contril)ulion to the :\hinx Fungus Flora ' 

 in The Lancashire Naturalist (No. 19). 



Some big prices have recently been paid for insects, but that referred 

 to on the headline in ' The Globe ' — ' Fly for ;^iooo,' is surely a record ! 



An account of Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins (with portrait), in the ' Eminent 

 Living Geologists ' series, appears in the December Geological Magazine. 



Mr. Ernest Kempsey saw a Glossy Ibis at Hornsea Mere on October 

 15th, and ' saw a similar bird at the same place in. 1902.' — British Birds for 

 December. 



An excellent account of the life and work of the late J. G. Goodchild, 

 by Prof. J. W. Gregory, appears in ' The Transactions of the Edinburgh 

 Geological Society, (Vol. IX., Part 4) recently issued. 



At a recent meeting of thei Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 

 Society, Mr. W. Mansbridge exhibited a series of Eiipetliecia valerianata 

 from Delamere Forest ; this being the first record for Cheshire. 



We were flattered to find that the gist of Mr. Riley Fortune's note on 

 ' the Ringed Pratincole in Yorkshire,' which appeared in our journal 

 for November, was subsequently inserted in ' The Field,' thougii above 

 another signature ! 



Part XVI. of Taylor's ' Monograph of the Land and Fresh-water 

 Mollusca of the British Isles ' has appeared, and, as usual, is well 

 illustrated. Besides various distribution maps, there are portraits and 

 autographs of famous conchologists, etc., and an excellent coloured plate 

 of Vitrina and Hyalinia. 



Mr. W. Greaves, of i Chapel Avenue, Hebden Bridge, is preparing an 

 account of the fauna of his district, and is anxious to ascertain the where- 

 abouts of the collection of birds formed by Samuel Gibson, over half a 

 century ago. It is said that a list of his birds appeared in the Manchester 

 Guardian in May or June 1849, in which year Gibson died. If any of our 

 readers are able to assist Mr. Greaves, perhaps they will communicate with 

 him. 



The Rev. W. Hunt Painter has presented the whole of his botanical, 

 geological and conchological collections to the University College of Wales, 

 Aberystwyth. Mr. Painter's herbarium includes a practically complete 

 collection of British flowering plants and ferns, together with many 

 European and other specimens. There is also a tine collection of Cardigan- 

 shire, etc., mosses, accompanied by a considerable number of microscope 

 slides of leaves, capsules, etc. The geological collection contains many 

 fossils w^hich cannot now be obtained, as the quarries in which they were 

 found are now closed. 



Errata. — ' Recently Discovered Fungi in Yorkshire,' ' Naturalist,' 

 May and June, 1909. For ' C. Stevenson i,' p. 182, line 9, read ' Collybia 

 Steveusoni ' ; for ' No. 1399,' p. 222, line 5, read ' No. 1349.'— C. Crossland. 



Through a careless slip on the part of our printers, the matter on pages 

 436-437 of the December ' Naturalist ' has been re-arranged. The whole 

 of page 437 should follow on after the fifth line of page 436, and that 

 portion of page 436 commencing ' Hygromia rufescens ' :5hould follow on 

 after the word ' limestone,' at the bottom of page 437. Perhaps our 

 readers will kindly make this correction. 



1910 Jan. I. 



