96 NortJicni Neios. 



Mr. \Vm. Ingham, B.A. , of York, has prepared a pamphlet entitled 

 ' Observations of Nature ' for the use of teachers. It contains ( i ) ' Scientific 

 Methods of Discovering; the name of a Flower,' and (2) ' Observations on the 

 Scientific Method above.' It has 14 pp., and is sold by A. Brown & Sons, 

 5, Farring;don Avenue, for 3d. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, M.Sc, F.L.S., gives some interesting- notes 'On the 

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

 Lancashire (Vice-County 60)' in 'Manchester Memoirs,' Vol. XLVII., 

 1902-3, No. 2. These are accompanied by plates illustrating- Ambrosia 

 artemisicefolia, L. , and Vicia villosa, Roth. 



Besides particulars of moliusca exhibited at the nieeting-s of the 

 Concholog-ical Society, the Joiu-nal of Conchology for January contains two 

 notes of interest to northern readers, viz. : ' Report on the Leasowe 

 Ramble, 12th July 1902," by R. Standen, (p. 258), and 'Helix rotunda, Miill., 

 m. siiiistrorsiiDi, at Castleton, Derbyshire' (p. 284). 



The ' Zoological Record for 1901 ' was issued in December. The value 

 of the work cannot be over-estimated. Over one thousand entries appear 

 in the list of periodicals consulted, and during- the year over 2,000 new 

 g-eneric names were reg-istered. In future the ' Record ' will be increased 

 in usefulness by the divisions being- issued separately. 



Three notes of interest to northern coleopterists appear in the December 

 Kntoinologists Record, viz., Coleoptera taken in 1902 in the Southport dis- 

 trict ; a day among-st the Coleoptera on the southern end of Lazonby Fell, 

 and Coleoptera in Barron Wood, Cumberland. The same journal also 

 contains other notes of interest to our entomological readers. 



The ' Report of the Committee of the Natural Histor_y Society of 

 Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-TN-ne,' shows that the 

 Society is in a flourishing- condition, having- a membership of 231. Several 

 additions have been made to the Society's Museum, including- some local 

 specimens, and the new curator, Mr. E. L. Gill, has overhauled and 

 rearranged some of the collections. 



Mr. G. W. Lamplug-h has recently visited the well-known ' Sponge- 

 g-ravels ' at Faring^don, and finds that the belemnites, which occur so 

 abundantl)' there, are not Jurassic, as usually supposed, but niay be referred 

 to the B. speeionensis of Pavlow, which occurs in the B. brunsvicensis zone 

 in the Lower Cretaceous at Speeton and in Lincolnshire. Mr. Lamplugh's 

 observations are printed in the January Geological Magazine. 



The first annual Conference of persons in the North of Eng-land interested 

 in Hig-her Education was held at Manchester on 2nd and 3rd January, and 

 was very successful. Over 3,000 teachers and others accepted invitations 

 to attend. Professors Miall, Weiss, Armstrong-, and Messrs. Ho3'le, Wager, 

 Lomas, and others familiar to our readers, contributed papers or took part 

 in the discussions. Exhibitions were arranged to illustrate Nature study, etc. 



Mr. J. Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., a native of Leeds, is the editor of the 

 ' Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club.' 

 Vol. II, Part 3, has recenth' been issued, and contains two contributions by 

 the editor, one a record of meteorological observations, and the other a list 

 of works on the geolog\- of Hertfordshire. Mr. Hopkinson has recently 

 been appointed to the direction of the Ray Society, vacated by the decease 

 of Prof Wiltshire. 



At the meeting of the Linnean Society on 4th December the Rev. John 

 Gerard exhibited specimens of a Polygala from Grassington, which had 

 been named P. atnarella Crantz. He also showed a monstrous form of 

 Getcvi rivale Linn., from between Long Preston and Settle ; the terminal 

 flower vi'as apparently normal, but about i^ inches below the calyx there 

 appeared a whorl of about twent\- petaloid members, on extremely long 

 ' claws,' and surrounded by a series oi leaf-like bracts. 



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