PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



The Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, Part XL, contains an 

 admira1)le pa)ier by the Kcw C. F. Morris, on ' The Treasures of Dialect, 

 •with Ilhistrations from the I'olk Speech ol llie WoUlsnian.' 



The Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club for the year 

 igot) (55 pp.), contain a " Report on the Year's Field Work,' by Mr. J. W. 

 Elli.s ; the Presidential Address of Dr. C. W. Hayward, entitled, ' Odd 

 Facts for Naturalists,' in which the cpiestion of Evolution is discussed ; 

 and particulars of the club's various prize schemes. 



The Fifty-seventh Annual Report and Transactions of the Nottingham 

 Naturalists' Society for 1908-9 contains the Presidential Address of Mr. 

 J. Goulding on ' Tiae .Mysteries of the Milk Pail ' ; a brief ' Report of the 

 Work of the Microscopical Section ' ; and a note on ' The British Pansies.' 

 There are records of the Common Seal and the Glossy Ibis in Nottingham- 

 shire, the former being shot in the Trent, whilst the record of the latter has 

 already appeared in these pages. 



The Thirty-third Annual Report and Proceedings of the Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Entomological Society is just to hand. Besides the usual 

 list of members, balance sheet, etc., we notice papers by Mr. H. H. Corbett 

 on ' The Phylogeny of the Insecta ' ; Mr. W. Mansbridge on ' Micro- 

 Lepidoptera in the Liverpool District ' ; jMr. H. R. Sweeting on ' The 

 Valuation of Variation to a Species ' : and ^Mr. F. N. Pierce on ' The 

 Luperinas.' There is an excellent portrait of our old contributor, Mr. Robert 

 Newstead, as frontispiece. 



The Norwich Museum Association has issued its Second Annual Report 

 of Proceedings, and contains reports of lectures on the " Food of Birds,' 

 bj' yiv. C. Gorden Hewitt ; ' House Flies as Carriers of Disease,' by J. T. C. 

 Nash ; ' Fungoid Diseases of Plants.' by ]Mr. E. S. Salmon ; ' WTieat 

 and Bread-Making," by Prof. R. H. Biffen ; ' The Soils of Norfolk,' by 

 Mr. \V. L. Sutton ; ' The Insect Pests of Fruit ' by Mr. F. V. Theobald ; 

 and ' Roses,' by Mr. T. B. Field. The Norwich ]\Iuseum Association was 

 formed to further the interests of that Museum, and is doing excellent 

 work. 



\'o\. I., No. 2, of the Journal of the Spen Valley Literary and 

 Scientific Society, which contains 64 pages, and is sold at the absurdly low 

 price of 3d., is to hand. The journal contains a portrait of the late 

 H. T. Broughton ; ' A Record of the Society's Work ' ; a paper on ' The 

 Society : its Past, Present, and Future,' by ]\Ir. A. Moore ; ' Sectional 

 Reports ' ; ' Pond Life in the Spen Valley,' by W. Bagshaw ; ' Report on 

 a first investigation of Local Diatoms in igog,' by J. A. Long ; ' Records 

 of INIollusca,' by T. Castle ; a small ' List of iMosses and Hepatics in Spen 

 \'alley, 1909 ' ; and a poem entitled ' The Spen Society,' in which the 

 author tells us that he is ' not a poet born.' ^^'e sliould almost have 

 guessed it ! 



We have received \"ol. \'., Part I., of the Transactions of the Carodoc 

 and Severn Valley Field Club for 1909. It contains a record of the club's 

 work, and of the various lectures that have been given, some of which 

 refer to the fauna and archa?ology of tlie Ilkley and Craven district, where 

 the club held its long excursion in June. Amongst t'ne contributors we 

 notice the names of ^Ir. Rosse Butterfield, INlr. J. E. Wilson, Mr. H. B. 

 Booth, I\Ir. Frank Hall, Dr. W. E. Hoyle, :\Ir. H. E. Forrest, Rev. H. Friend 

 and others. There is nothing to indicate under whose editorship the 

 volume has been produced, but presumably the Hon. Secretary, Mr. H. E. 

 Forrest is the editor. We do not know whether the Carodoc Club proposes 

 to start a new fashion with regard to the shape of its Transactions, but the 

 part before us has been so badly guillotined, that it is dangerously approach- 

 ing a lozenge shape. 



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