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NORTHERN NEWS. 



Nearly the whole of The New Phytologist for May is occupied by a paper 

 on MarchantiacecB by Dr. F. Cavers. 



A note on the abundance of Nemoura meyeri at Huddersfield in March, 

 appears in The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for May. 



M. Adrien Dollfus, the editor of La Feuille Des Jeunes Naturalistes,. 

 has an interesting article on ' La Protection des Monuments Naturels,' 

 in the June issue of that journal. 



We are sorry to see that the Museums Journal is printing advertisements 

 on the same sheets as the text ; and as these are in particularly heavy 

 type, the volume will have an ugly appearance when bound up. 



The Cambridge University has made a grant of Is^ to Mr. C. E. Moss, 

 toward defraying expenses of botanical investigations which he proposes 

 to make on the Continent ; and of £25 to Mr. R. H. Rastall, towards 

 expenses of a visit to South Africa for geological investigations. 



In a paper on ' Some Variations in the Skeleton of the Domestic Horse 

 and their Significance ' (' Sci. Proc. Royal Dublin Soc' Vol. XII., No. 27, 

 1910), Major F. Eassie endeavours to shew that the domisticated horse 

 frequently gives proof of deterioration from the type of the skeleton of the 

 wild horse. 



In the May Geological Magazine Mr. F. R. Cowper Reed describes some 

 ' New Fossils from the Dufton Shales,' near Melmerby. These consist of 

 Trilobites, etc., as under: — Trinucleus nicholsoni, Acidaspis semievoluta, 

 Homalonotus ascriptus, Beyrichia [Ceratopsis] duftonensis, B. {Ctenobol- 

 bina ?) superciliata, and B. (Tetradella) tuvnbulU. 



From an article on ' Additions and Corrections to the British List of 

 MuscidcB Acalyptrat(S in The Entomologists' Monthly Magazine ior June, we 

 learn that ' the species recorded by the Rev. W. J. Wingate in 1903 (' The 

 Naturalist,' p. 284) as occurring in the county of Durham under the name 

 iners Mg., is not that species, but a new one ' named Leria kerteszii Czerny. 

 From the same journal we find that an absolutely perfect specimen of the 

 ordinary dark form of Tryphcena pronuba was taken at Sugar, near Sheffield, 

 as early as April 20th. 



We are indeed sorry to learn that the ' Record of the Hurst Street 

 Chapel, Birmingham,' has ceased to exist, and that consequently the little 

 leaflet which we learn was inserted by the kindness of the Missionary, 

 has also ceased, as the result is that ' The Field Club ' has sprung mto- 

 being. It is not the first journal of that name, and judging from the 

 sympathetic appeal for support in its second number, its career will not 

 be much better than its predecessors. There are evidently some ambitious 

 ' authors ' in Birmingham, who write much, and yet write nothing ; whilst 

 the silly nonsense written about ' We campers three," is enough to kill any 

 magazine. There is the usual spring poem, a prize [!] essay written by 

 a K. E. G. S. (whatever that may mean) ; ' Nature Gleanings ' ; 'Stray 

 [very] Notes ' ; in which we are informed that ' the young rabbits m the 

 fields have now grown to a fair size ' ; presumably those in the woods are 

 still small ; and ' Bathing, didn't we enjoy it, just ! ' 'I have told you 

 enough ! If it does not suffice, at least it is all I am going to tell ' [thank 

 heaven for that]. ' I have spoken.' ' Farewell those times of the fallen 

 leaf, the glory of the years innumerable that have passed o'er man, thou 

 consummation of the whole year, farewell.' And so on. Would that we 

 could say ' farewell.' We notice that this wonderful Club is the ' Head 

 Quarters Birmingham Branch ' of a Society that we believe does not 



now exist ! 



Naturalist, 



