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NORTHERN NEWS. 



The Halifax Corporation lias plantod fifty acres of laiui with \-oiinif 

 Ash, Larch, Sycamore, and Pine. 



Mr. J. E. Clark contributes an article on 'Lake Pickering-' to The 

 Friend tor January, illustrated b}' Mr. P. F. Kendall's map of the Cleveland 

 area. 



In the January Joiintal of Botany Messrs. Wilson and Wlioldon record 

 Kantia submcrsa from Cockerham Moss, Lancashire— a new British 

 hepatic. 



Mr. Samuel Moore contributes a ' Note on an Unmapped Toadstone 

 Bed in the Derbyshire Mountain Limestone ' to the February Geological 

 Magazine. 



Messrs. Wheldon and Wilson, in the Journal of Botany for December, 

 g-ive localities for mosses and hepatics discovered in West Lancashire since 

 their previous list, published in 1901. 



The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society has awarded the 

 1903 Wilde Gold Medal to" Prof. F. W. Clarke, of the U.S. Geological 

 Survey, and a Dalton Medal to Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S. 



A brief account of the history of the Sunderland Museum appears in the 

 December Mtiseum Journal, from the pen of Mr. J. M. E. Bovvley, curator. 

 The museum contains a particularly fine series of Permian fossils. 



In the Geological Magazine for January Mr. J. Lomas has a note on 

 ' The Ouartz Dykes near Foxdale, Isle of Man.' Various quartz veins are 

 enumerated, and the author considers that these are true igneous dykes. 



The items of interest to northern readers in the December Zoologist are 

 all ornithological. Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain gives ' Rough Notes on Derby- 

 shire Ornitholog^y, 1900-1902.' A Little Bunting is recorded at Durham, 

 and a Knot at Bowden, Cheshire. 



In the January Xeiv Phytologist Mr. F. W. Oliver has a note 'On the 

 Identity of Sporocarpon ornatiim Will, and Lagenostoma physoides Will.,' in 

 which he points out that the former is nothings else than a transverse section 

 of the latter — a seed from the Halifax coal-measures. 



In view of the assistance received from the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 Winter Lecture Scheme, the Barnsley Naturcilists' Societ}' has decided to 

 contribute a g^uinea per annum to the Union's funds in addition to the usual 

 fee. We trust this excellent example will be followed by others. 



The ' Seventh Report of the Southport Society of Natural Science' con- 

 tains abstracts of papers read at the Society's meetings. The only one of 

 interest to northern readers is on ' Caves,' by H. Broderick. A ' List of the 

 Lepidoptera of Southport and District,' by E. B. Hobson, occupies pp. 37-46. 



' The Migrations of the Fieldfare ( Turdiis pilaris) and Lapwing ( Vanelhis 

 vulgaris) during 1880-1887' are dealt with in detail by Mr. W. Eagle 

 Clarke, in the " Report of the Committee on Bird Migration in Great 

 Britain and Ireland,' submitted to the Belfast Meeting of the British 

 Association. 



In reference to the note headed ' Silverdale Plants,' in The Naturalist 

 for October 1902, p. 316, .Mr. S. L. Petty writes as under: — 'In reply to 

 Mr. Kirkby, re Cotoneaster, may I be allowed to call his attention — and 

 Mr. Pickard's also — to the statement in my paper, 'Bird sown?' I never 

 looked on the plant, whatever species it might be, as nati\e at Silverdale. 

 Under these circumstances the 'ardent botanist' need not trouble himself. 

 As both the above gentlemen know, I object to botanical Kensal Greens. 

 As a field man I must leave the species I see where round; the 'ardent 

 botanist ' is under no such obligation and knows it. My thanks are due to 

 Mr. Pickard for the correction. 

 1903 March 2. 



