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been exceptionally successful in stereoscopic work. With 

 regard to birds and their nests, stereoscopic photography is 

 particularly valuable, as in this way the objects photographed, 

 often almost invisible in an ordinary print, stand out in a 

 delightful manner. We are glad to see that the well-known 

 publishers, Messrs. Gowan and Gray, of Glasgow, have repro- 

 duced no fewer than sixty photographs of birds, etc., by 

 Mr. Fortune, and these are issued in book form for the small 

 sum of sixpence.* 



LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' 

 Union, the officers were all re-elected, including the President, 

 Mr. W. Denison Roebuck. Mr. Roebuck, in his address, began 

 by stating that he was an original member of the Lincolnshire 

 Naturalists' Union, which owed its origin to a suggestion made 

 by him to Mr. W. F. Baker, the actual founder, in 1893. 



LINCOLNSHIRE MOLLUSCA. 



The President then dealt with the history of the investiga- 

 tion of the mollusca of Lincolnshire. This began with Martin 

 Lister, one of the remarkable trio of English naturalists (Ray 

 and Willughby were the others) who put natural science on its 

 modern basis a full century before Linne. Lister noted more 

 or less certainly a score of Lincolnshire mollusca, and stated 

 ■definite localities for Cyclostoma elegans, Pupa cylindracea and 

 Hyalinia julva, all of which have been verified of recent years 

 in those spots by Mr. H. Wallis Kew and Mr. Roebuck. 



The history was otherwise of a personal nature, dealing with 

 the work of observers now living — only Thos. Ball and Alfred 

 Reynolds figure among the deceased, — and half-a-dozen of the 

 observers whose work was summarised, were present to listen ! 

 The venerable John Hawkins, now living at Grantham, who 

 attained his 90th birthday on 3rd January, 1910, was the first 

 investigator after the blank of a century and a half following 

 Martin Lister {1678 to 1850). 



COMMON CRINOID NAMES. 



In a recent jssue of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History,' Dr. F. A. Bather gives a detailed study of type 

 specimens and other fossUs. He then discusses crinoid 

 nomenclature, and from his remarks it is evident that, as in 



* Gowan's Stereoscopic Scries, No. :, ' Birds and their Nests,' 6d. 



Naturalist. 



