NORTHERN NEWS. 



Records of the Past (Vol. IX. part 2), contains an interesting paper on 

 ' The relations of the great museums and institutions to the independent 

 local investigator,' by Mr. F. B. Wright. 



There is an admirable address on ' The Pioneers of Geology in the 

 Glasgow District ' by Sir Archibald Geikie, in the Transactions of the 

 Geological Society of Glasgow, Vol. XIII., part 3, recently published. 



The Perthshire Natural History Museum Report for 1909-10 contains a 

 list of the year's accessions, with particulars of the work accomplished. 

 There is also an ' Abstract of Meteorological Observations ' by the Curator, 

 Mr. A. M. Rodger. 



From Mr. L. Richardson, F.G.S., we have received a copy of his paper 

 ' On the Correlation of the Neozoic Rocks of Yorkshire ' (Proc. Ashmolean 

 Soc.) , in which he compares the Yorkshire beds with those in Gloucester- 

 shire and elsewhere. 



According to the Museums Journal, the following entry occurs in a 

 recent auctioneer's catalogue : — ' Stuffed animal (Hicknewman) in glass 

 case.' Assuming that it is our old friend ' ichneumon,' it would be interest- 

 ing to know what it was ' stuffed ' with. 



We are pleased to hear that the Royal Society of Edinburgh has 

 awarded its biennial Kieth gold medal and prize to a past-president of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Dr. Wlieelton Hind, for a paper published 

 in the Society's Transactions, entitled ' On the Lamellibranch and Gas- 

 teropod Fatma found in the Millstone Grit of Scotland.' 



In the Journal of Conchology for July there is the first part of a list of 

 ' The Marine Mollusca of the Yorkshire Coast and the Dogger Bank.' 

 Oddly enough the compiler of the list seems familiar with most of the work 

 that has been accomplished, with the exception of the work which has been 

 and is being done by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 



The final part of Vol. IX. of the Museums Journal is the last that is 

 to appear in the demy octavo size, as future parts, we understand, are 

 to ^)e royal octavo in size, in order to better accommodate the illustrations, 

 etc. Personally, we consider the change will have many disadvantages. 

 Appropriately appearing in part 12 of volume IX. are admirable ' Indexes 

 to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909,' which have 

 been compiled by Mr. Charles Madeley, of Warrington. 



There has been some amusing correspondence in the Yorkshire Post 

 recently, in reference to the alleged attack upon some climbers by ' bus- 

 tards ' in the Lake District. Judging from the ' unexaggerated ' report of 

 an average climber, the attack was so severe, that an appeal was made for 

 gallant volunteers to shoot the birds. It was pointed out, of course, that 

 the bustard had been extinct in this country for many years. In the same 

 week's Yorkshire Weekly Post, the writer of the Angling Column, who is 

 said to be related to George Washington, in ' answers- to correspondents,' 

 states : — ' Up-stream worm or clear-water minnow by day, and bustard 

 hy night ! ' What does Mr. Murdock say to that ? 



We have received Vol. I., part i of the Bulletin of Entomological Re- 

 search, issued by the Entomological Research Committee (Tropical 

 Africa), appointed by the Colonial Office (Longmans, Green & Co. 88 pp., 

 4/-), under the editorship of the scientific secretary, Mr. G. A. K. Marshall. 

 Amongst the papers we notice ' A New Genus and two new Species of 

 African Fruit Flies ' ; and ' A New Species of Cordylobia,' by E. E. Austen ; 

 ' Blood-sucking Diptera of Abyssinia,' by Dr. R. E. Drake-Brockman ; 

 ' West African Hemiptera Injurious to Cocoa, and Parasites of Two Species 

 of West African wild Silk-worms,' by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon ; ' the Study of 

 Mosquito Larvae,' by Dr. W. M. Graham ; ' Scale Insects from Uganda,' 

 by Mr. R. Newstead ; and ' Larval and Pupal Stages of West African 

 Culicidae,' by Mr. W. Wesche. The articles are illustrated by excellent 

 plates, one of whiclr is coloured. 



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