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PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIHC SOCIETIES. 



The Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 



for 1909 (reprinted from ' The Naturalist ' for January), can be obtained 

 from the Hon. Secretary of the Union at one shilling. It contains 

 a useful summary of the natural history observations in Yorkshire during 

 1909. 



The Transactions and Journal of Proceedings of the Dumfries and 

 Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Vol. XX. (220 pp.), has 

 been issued, and contains a record of tlie work accomplished during the 

 Ses.sion 1907-8. The papers and abstracts deal with a variety of subjects, 

 from Paul Jones to Local Fungi, and a good proportion of the articles are 

 of local interest. Amongst the natural history items we notice birds 

 occupy a prominent place, whilst fishes, fungi and butterflies are also 

 dealt with. 



The Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne is to be congratulated upon its Transactions (Vol. III., 

 Part 2, pp. 223-540, 6/6) recently issued. 



The thick tome is packed with most valuable papers, mostly dealing 

 with the arachnida and other usually neglected orders. The articles are 

 well-illustrated, and have the further merit of bearing upon the Society's 

 sphere of work. Besides the reports on the field meetings, the museum, 

 etc., there ai'e papers on Exotic Thyscuiopteva ; British Collembola and 

 Pauropoda, by Mr. R. S. Bagnall ; Mr. E. L. Gill describes a new arachnid 

 from the Coal Measures ; the Rev. J. E. Hull and !\Ir. A. R. Jackson 

 respectively have papers on rare spiders ; Miss M. V. Lebour publishes 

 her further work amongst the Trematodes of the Coast ; Canon Norman and 

 Prof. G. S. Brady describe the coast Crustacea, and geological items are 

 contributed by Dr. Woolacott and the Rev. A. Watts. 



The Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society for 1909 have 

 recently been published (A. Brown cS: Sons, Hull). 



The volume is principally occupied by two lengthy papers. The first 

 is by the President, Col. P. Saltmarshe, and refers to ' Some Howdenshire 

 Villages,' and includes an elaborate pedigree of the Metham family. The 

 second is by Mr. T. Sheppard, and deals with ' Some Anglo-Saxon \'ases 

 in the Hull Museum.' He describes an unusually fine series of cinerary 

 urns, and their contents, principally from Sancton in East Yorkshire, 

 though there are three from Newark. This paper is illustrated by ninety- 

 four photographs and sketches. 



Vol. I. of the Year Book of the Viking Club is a further publication 

 issued by this enthusiastic society. 



It contains the reports of the district secretaries ; a paper on ' The 

 Rampshire Sword,' by the late Harper Gaythorpe ; an excellent series of 

 ' Viking Notes,' Reviews, Bibliography, etc. From the same society we 

 have received No. 1 7 of Old Lore Miscellany ; Orkney and Shetland Records 

 (No. 18), and Caithness and Sutherland Records (No. 19). The editors of 

 these publications are again to be congratulated upon the general excellence 

 and value of the work. 



We have received Vol. I. No. 4 of the Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist 

 edited by Mr. W. Ruskin Butterfield. (Hastings, pp. 131-196, price 2/-). 



It is particularly valuable from the local character of its contents. 

 The Rev. E. N. Bloomfield gives a list of Sussex Fungi ; Mr. W. H. Mullens 

 writes on ' Gilbert White and Sussex ' ; the editor gives notes on Hastings 

 Harvestmen (PJudangidea) ; Mr. T. Parkin refers to Nesting Boxes at 

 Westfield Place, Sussex ; Mr. M. J. NicoU describes the Pipits in the 

 Hastings area ; the Rev. Bloomfield gives ' Annual Notes on the Local 

 Flora, Fauna, etc.', and there are several shorter notes. We must con- 

 gratulate our Hastings friends on the attention they pay to local notes. 



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