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The tiiirty-nintli Annual Report of the Chester Society of Natural 

 Science Literature and Art (48 pp.), has recently been published. It 

 contains a record of the Society's work dnring the year, and particulars of 

 the additions to the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. The latter includes a 

 molar of a mammoth, ' believed to be the only authentic Cheshire example.' 



The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society is one of the very few 

 societies that has retained its literary and philosophical character. Its 

 memoirs (Vol. LTV., part 3) recently to hand, contain several valuable 

 papers, those of particular interest to our readers being — ' The Saurop- 

 terygia of the Whitby Museum,' by Mr. D. M. S. Watson ; ' A Third List 

 of the Adventitious Vegetation of the Sandhills of St. Anne's-on-the-Sea,' 

 by Mr. Charles Bailey ; ' The Anatomy of Calamostachys Binneyana,' by 

 Dr. George Hickling ; and a ' Note on the Variability of the Colour of the 

 Flowers of a Tropaeolum Hybrid,' by Dr. F. E. Weiss. Mr. Watson 

 deals in detail with the remains of Blake's Plesiosaurus propinquus. The 

 printed ' Proceedings ' of this Society are also of much greater general 

 interest than is usually the case with these societies. 



The Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society has published ' A 

 List of the \'ertebrate Fauna of the Hebden Bridge District ' (32 pp.),. 

 compiled by JNIr. Walter Greaves. It is an excellent piece of work. As- 

 we know from personal experience, the Society and Mr. Greaves have made 

 exhaustive enquiry as to past records ; and this is also apparent from the 

 very clear and carefully-written introduction. Particulars of the dis- 

 tribution, etc., of each species are given. There is a total of 234 species 

 recorded, including 185 birds, 23 mammals, 3 reptiles, 4 amphibians, and 

 19 fishes. The mammals should properly have appeared before the birds. 

 The list is an admirable piece of work, and might well serve as a model for 

 compilations by other societies in the county. It is appropriately dedicated 

 to Mr. J. B. Brown, who has shewn such a practical interest in the Society's 

 work since its inception. 



Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union Transactions, 1909 (pub. Oct. 1910), 

 pp. 67-15S. We are glad to find that there is a distinct improvement 

 in the editing of this publication. Mr. G. W. Mason contributes Part III. 

 of ' The Lepidoptera of Lincolnshire,' and seems to have done his work 

 very thorougiily. Mr. W. Denison Roebuck's presidential address on 

 ' The History and Present Conditions of the Investigation of the Land 

 and Fresh-Water Mollusca of Lincolnshire,' traces back the study of 

 Lincolnshire mollusca to ' the time of the great revival of human know- 

 ledge which followed the commotions of the Civil Wars.' The Rev. A. 

 Thornley and Mr. W. Wallace contribute their third instalment of ' Lin- 

 colnshire Colcoptera,' which has evidently been very carefully compiled. 

 There are ' Further Notes on Lincolnshire Galled Plants,' by Miss S. C^ 

 Stow, and a report on ' Field Meetings, 1909.' There is a portrait 

 of the present President, Dr. G. M. Lowe, and an article on ' The 

 Presidents [query President] of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, 

 George May Lowe, M.D.', etc., which reads rather like an obituary notice, 

 though we are glad to find it isn't. Bibliographers will regret that there is 

 no indication of either the volume or part on this publication, though the 

 pagination, at any rate, would seem to indicate that it is not still another 

 ' part I.' It was certainly hard lines that some of the sheets of the Rev. 

 E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock's ' Check list of Lincolnshire Plants, Part I.' 

 had been omitted ' through the sticking of the sheets of the orginal manu- 

 script.' But we hardly see that it was necessary for him to have done 

 penance by telling us all about it twice over (on page 118 and 147 respec- 

 tively), although in the first case he tells us that three of the species were 

 omitted, and in the second that four were omittecf. 



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