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Under the editorship of Mr. J. Lomas the Liverpool Geolog-ical 

 Society has issued a valuable number of Proceeding's, containinsi; three 

 papers of interest to Lancashire and Cheshire naturalists. The first is 

 a useful record of sections exposed in the Heyshani Harbour excavations, 

 etc., by Mr. T. Mellard Reade, who has once more been favoured with 

 a 'list'of foraminifera ' by Mr. Joseph Wright. Mr. W. Edwards g-ives a 

 concise account of the drifts in the neighbourhood of Crewe, and Mr. H. C. 

 Beasley continues his excellent work amongst the Triassic footprints. This 

 is a description, with figures, of two curious four-toed prints. The papers 

 of more g-eneral interest are by Mr. C. C. Moore, Mr. T. H. Cope, Prof. 

 T. G. Bonney, and Mr. J. Lomas. There are several 'plates,' some of 

 which, however, are rather crude. 



Messrs. Macmillan & Co. have recently reprinted Prof. L. C. Miall's 

 'Aquatic Insects.' Since the appearance of the work in 1895 (see 

 A^al II rail's f^, i8g6, pp. 51-52) it has been largely read, and has unquestionably 

 done much towards inducing field naturalists to take an interest in this 

 somewhat neg-lected branch of natural history. The reissue of the work 

 has given the author an opportunity of adding two pages of ' additional 

 notes,' mostly references to works published since the first issue. ' The 

 Natural History of Aquatic Insects' is already well known to most of our 

 readers, but those who have not had the pleasure of perusing its pages 

 should not fail to take the earliest opportunity of doing so, particularly as 

 the author has been greatly assisted in his work by well-known Yorkshire 

 naturalists. 



' The Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne' (V'ol. 14, Part 1, 1902), just to hand, contain several 

 valuable papers, and we must congratulate the society on the decidedly 

 local flavour of its proceedings. Dr. G. S. Brady writes : — ' On Copepoda 

 and other Crustacea taken in Ireland and on the North East Coast of 

 England' (plates), and also 'Report on Dredging and other Marine Research 

 off the North East Coast of England in 1901 ' — papers which should be 

 perused by all interested in marine zoology. Mr. J. G. Baker gives 

 ' Biographical Notes iin the early Botanists of Northumberland and 

 Durham,' which forms a valuable continuation of his address on 'Yorkshire 

 Botanists,' delivered at the Barnsley meeting of the Yorkshire Union in 

 1884. The presidential address of Mr. T. Thompson contains a review of 

 the years field work, and also contains some interesting ornithological 

 matter. 



'Thoroughbreds and their Grass-land,' No. II., by the Rev. E. A. 

 Woodruffe Peacock (Louth, 16 pp., 1902) has just been issued. It enters 

 ' a little more fully into matters of general interest to horse-breeders.' It 

 is sold at the more reasonable price of 6d. 



A paper in the Linnean Society's journal (Zoology, Vol. 28) by Professor 

 G. S. West deals with a branch of micro-zoology too much neglected by 

 English observers — ' Freshwater Rhizopods and Heliozoa. ' 



Among many interesting observations, perhaps the most striking is that 

 in which Mr. West describes Vampyrella lateritia seen in the act of making 

 burglarious entrv bv perforation of the cell wall into a fihiment of 

 Mougeotia, and feeding on the enclosed protoplasm and chromatophore. 



The author describes 68 species found in Britain by himself, including 

 six which have not previously been described. Of these two (Gromia 

 stagnalis and Acanthocystis paludosa) are recorded from Lincolnshire and 

 Yorkshire localities. One form described is referred to a new genus. 

 (Leptochlamys ampidlacea). The figures are well drawn and the paper will 

 be invaluable to students of these obscure forms of life. 



1903 April I. 



