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NORTHERN NEWS. 



A thrush's nest in a turnip lop is recorded at Little Driffield ; anti in the 

 same district a blackbird has brougfht off its brood in a cabbatje. 



The 32nd annual report of the Sheffield Naturalists' Club includes a 

 record of Enpifhecia isograminata, an addition to the Yorkshire list of 

 lepidoptera. 



The 1902 report of the Moss Exchangee Club, of which Mr. W. Ingham, 

 B.A., is the Secretary, is to hand. The Club is evidently accomplishing- 

 good work in this branch of study. 



In a papei- on ' The Elk in the Thames Valley ' (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. , 

 Feb. 1903, p. 80), Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., refers to antlers of Alces 

 niachlis from Barmston and Carnab}' Moor, in East Yorkshire. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. James Bedford, of Leeds, and 

 Mr. A. Millward, of Harrogate, both for many years members of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, which took place recently. 



In the April Journal of the Quekett Club Mr. D. J. Scourfield gives a 

 ' Synopsis of the known species of British Freshwater Entomostraca. 

 Part I. Cladocera,' in which several Lake District forms are enumerated. 

 The 1902 Annual Report of the Huddersfield Naturalist and Photographic 

 Society shows that good work has been done during the vear. Mr. C. Bulmer 

 suggests that the geologists should devote their attention to the question of 

 ' How the scenery of the Huddersfield District has been affected or modified 

 by Geological Faults.' Botanical and ornithological notes are also given. 

 In the same report Mr. C. Mosley records the following local occurrences 

 under the head of Lepidoptera. The Orange-tip Butterflv, Small Copper 

 Butterfly, Orgyia antiqiia, Liparis aurifliia, Hydra^cia pefasites, CucuUia 

 iimhratica , Xatithia cerago, Amphydasis betiilaria and var. doubledayaria, 

 Boarmia repandata (a very dark specimen) and Scotosia dubitata. 



We regret to learn that Mr. G. P. Bulman, of Newcastle, is dead. 

 Notwithstanding his early age (26), he had accomplished much work 

 amongst the marine mollusca of Northumberland, and had also carried out 

 some interesting experiments relating to heredity. 



The Milnsbridge Naturalists' Society had a Sunday meeting on April 

 26th, at which over 330 working men were present. The meeting- was 

 presided over by Mr. A. Townend, and Messrs. Goldthorp, Knutton, and 

 Booth royd, and others addressed the meeting. 



Originating in a suggestion from the Bradford Botanical Society, the 

 Bradford Corporation has recently opened a botanical garden in Lister 

 Park, covering about two acres. 



At the annual meeting of the Darling-ton Naturalists' Field Club, held 

 towards the end of April, it was announced that the late Dr. Manson's 

 books had been purchased for the society's library ; also that a boulder of 

 Shap granite, over nine feet long — the largest for the district — had been 

 discovered on the Cliffe estate. 



The Durham County Naturalists' Union, at present consisting- of seven 

 field clubs, with 134 members, held its quarterly meeting on Saturday, 

 4th April. A ])aper was read by the Secretary of the L^nion (Rev. ^. J. 

 Wingiite) on 'County Organisation.' He suggested dividing' the county 

 into districts, each to be worked systematically by the members. It was 

 decided to make a classified collection of card records, containing par- 

 ticulars of species, dates, localities, local observations on their habits, 

 life-histories, and varieties. It was also decided to publish a County 

 Naturalists' Record Book for distribution amongst the members, with a 

 view to collecting material for a natural history surve}' of the county on the 

 lines jidvocated by Dr. Wm. G. Smith in the January- number of ' The 

 Naturalist.' In this way work will be provided for the beginner, as well as 

 foi- the advanced natvn-alist, and it is hoped the use of these record books 

 will make the field days more profitable than the\- usually are. 



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