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NORTHERN NEWS. 



Dentists will be interested to know that a mammoth tooth has been 

 dug from the cliff's face at Filey. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. C. Bird, President of the Rochester 

 Naturalists' Club, and author of a small work on the geology of Yorkshire. 



Mr. A. Dean, of Marsden, informs us that he has had a fine specimen of 

 Panchloia exoleta given to him. It was obtained on May 12th from a 

 bunch of bananas. This pale green cockroach is now quite common in 

 our towns during the banana season. ., 



At the recent annual meeting of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary 

 Society a suggestion was again made that the Society's collection should 

 be better housed. Mr. E. Kitson Clark, however, pointed out that ' as 

 regards the premises, the finest museum in the world, that at Copenhagen, 

 was not better housed ' 1 



The National Trust for places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty 

 is appealing for ;^2400 for the purpose of purchasing a property of 310 

 acres, comprising the greater part of Grange Fell and more than a mile of 

 the River Derwent, including the Bowder Stone and the land on which 

 grow the birches which form so important a feature in the incomparable 

 beauty of Borrowdale. 



In the ' Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie ' for March 

 (edited by Dr. Chr. Schroder, Schoneberg-Berlin, Vorbergst, 13, Part 2, 

 price I mark) is an interesting article on the relative abundance of the 

 varieties of Adalia bipimctata L. (Die relative Haufigkeit der \'arietaten 

 von Adalia bi punctata. L.) in 1908-9, by Otto Meissner. This is accom- 

 panied by a table giving the percentages of named varieties occurring in 

 six localities in Germany. Attention is drawn to the rarity of forms 

 intermediate between the ' black ' and ' red,' and the still greater rarity 

 of unicolorous red or black examples. The possibility that there are 

 two perfectly fertile species (' vollkommen fruchtbaren Arten ') under the 

 name of A . bipunctata L. is discussed. Reference is made to the extreme 

 rarity of variations in C. '^-punctata, and illustrations are given of the 

 eltrya of varieties of other species of Coccinellida^ showing how closely these 

 approach the first-named species in the arrangement of the spots. 



The Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society for 1909, Vol. XVII., 

 pt. I, (issued May 19th, 1910), is not a publication that will be read from 

 cover to cover, and as regards size, illustrations, etc., is in marked contrast 

 with the preceding part published by this society. Of the 96 pages which 

 it contains, 68 are occupied by an elaborate ' Classified List of Organic 

 Remains from the Rocks of the East Riding of Yorkshire,' by Messrs. H. C. 

 Drake and T. Sheppard. This list has been compiled in order to aid future 

 workers amongst the rocks of the East Riding, by placing in a convenient 

 and compact form all the various and scattered records that have been 

 published. In addition, a number of species is now placed on record 

 for the first time. The list includes all the records between the Lower 

 Lias and Post-Glacial beds, and at the head of each section is a Biblio- 

 graphy. Mr. H. Culpin has a valuable paper on ' Marine and other Fossils 

 in the Yorkshire Coal Measures above the Barnsley Seam, as seen at the 

 Bentley Colliery, near Doncaster.' Details of the Bentley bore are given, 

 and the tables of fossils will prove exceedingly useful. Mr. G. V. Wilson 

 records ' Marine Bands in the Millstone Grit of Wharfedale,' a note which 

 is illustrated by a block which would have been better if right side up ; 

 Mr. E. Hawkesworth records two borings, at East Harsley and Selby 

 respectively ; Prof. J. Goodman describes an apparatus for determining 

 the Inclination of Bore Holes, and Mr. W. Lower Carter contributes an 

 obituary notice of ' The Marquess of Ripon.' 



Naturalist, 



