102 Northern News. 



Parts II. -VII. of The Story of the Heavens, by Sir Robert Ball (Cassell 



& Co., 6d. each net) arc to hand. 



Each is well illustrated by diagrams and plates, and the text is written 

 in a popular style. As this work is so well known, our main object in 

 calling attention to it is that those of our readers who do not already 

 possess a copy may be aware that it can be obtained in this convenient form 

 at sixpence a fortnight. 



NORTHERN NEWS. 



Mr. W. M. Tattcrsall has been appointed keeper of the Manchester 

 Museum. 



According to the daily papers, a pure wliite Squirrel, with pink eyes, 

 has recently been shot at Thornby, Northamptonshire. 



We regret to learn that Mr. John Eggleston, Assistant at the Sunderland 

 Museum, was found drowned in the Wear near Southwick, early in January. 



We notice in a recent weekly natural history column that reference 

 is made to the Eruption of Crossbills. 



The Report of the Committee on Erratic Blocks of tlie British Isles, 

 presented at Winnipeg, consists principally of records from Lincolnshire, 

 Northumberland, Durham and Leicester. 



Mr. J. W. Jackson favours us with a copy of his paper on ' Fossil 

 Pearl-Growths,' which appeared in Vol. VII. of ' The Proceedings of the 

 Malacological Society.' The specimens, some of which are illustrated, are 

 in the ^Manchester Museum. 



Lord Walsingham's collection of Microlepidoptera is being transferred 

 to the British Museum, having been presented to that Institution. The 

 collection consists of about 260,000 specimens, and will include about 

 45,000 species not previously represented in the National collection. 



According to the ' Grand Magazine,' ' in after days he looked upon that 

 evening as the date on which he burst from the chrysalis and became a 

 caterpillar.' To this ' Punch ' naturally adds, ' and the date lower down 

 in his calendar, with the two red lines round it, marks the occasion when 

 he finally burst into an egg.' Speaking of eggs reminds us that the Parlia- 

 mentary elections have recently taken place, in connection with which 

 there have been frequent references to history, both natural and unnatural. 

 In the Barrhead Sews a correspondent writes, ' the insidious snake of 

 Free Trade should not wag the cloven hoof of Protection in the air.' 



It is gratifying to learn that at the recent meeting of the Council of the 

 London Geological Society it was decided to confer the Murchison Award 

 upon Mr. J. W. Stather, F.G.S., of Hull. Mr. Stather was one of the 

 founders of the Hull Geological Society, and has passed through its presi- 

 dential chair. He has acted in the capacity of Honorary Secretary to the 

 Society almost without a break since its formation. He has also carried 

 out much geological work in the district, under the auspices of the British 

 Association, and has also done some excellent work in East Yorkshire 

 and North Lincolnshire, particularly amongst the Cretaceous and Glacial 

 series. He has served on the council of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and other important scientific bodies. 

 This is the second occasion upon which the London Geological Society 

 has conferred honours upon Hull naturalists in recent years, another Hull 

 geologist having received the Lyell Award only a short time ago. 



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