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NORTHERN NEWS. 



The third Field Day of the Durham County Naturalists' Union will be 

 held in Upper Weardale on i ith July, in connection with which an interesting- 

 programme has been arrang^ed. 



A new British Vitrea ( V. rogersi) is described by Mr. B. B. Woodward 

 in the April number of the 'Journal of Concholog')\' It is from Cheshire, 

 and named after the late Mr. T. Rog-ers, of Manchester, who first found 

 British specimens in 1870. 



The annual meeting of the Barrow Naturalists' Field Club was held in 

 April. From the report sent to us the society appears to be in an excep- 

 tionally flourishing- condition. The membership is now nearly 300, no fewer 

 than 90 new members having- been elected during- the year. Mr. Harper 

 Gaythorpe, who has done so much for the society, was re-elected President. 



Messrs. W. West and G. S. West have sent us a copy of their excellent 

 * Notes on Freshwater Alg-as. — III.,' reprinted from the 'Journal of Botany,' 

 which includes several northern county records. The paper is accompanied 

 b)^ three plates, in which the following- species of interest to our readers are 

 fig-ured : — Conferva ajffinis Kutz (Yorkshire and the Lake District) ; Chloro- 

 hotrys regularis West (g^enerally distributed through British Sphagmun-hogs), 

 and Ineffigiata neglecta West and G. S. West. 



The annual report of the Halifax Scientific Society indicates that the 

 society continues to do useful work. An increase in the membership and 

 attendances at the meeting-s is recorded. It is sug-g-ested that the society 

 should issue 'Annual Transactions' in place of the 'Halifax Naturalist,' 

 which has now been issued for seven years. 



From the reports of various Yorkshire natural history societies to hand 

 it is pleasing to note to what a large extent the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 Winter Lecture Scheme has been taken advantage of. Whilst they have 

 not been of great advantage to the Union, directly, there is no doubt that 

 the societies have benefited. 



The Bradford Scientific Association has made a new departure in its 

 work by appointing sections for definite study during the summer months. 

 These are under the leadership of capable men and no doubt good will come 

 of the venture. 



'The Report on the Eruptions of the Soufri^re, in St. Vincent, in 1902, 

 and on A Visit to Montagne Pelee, in Martinique.' Part I., by Dr. Tempest 

 Anderson and Dr. J. S. Flett, has been issued by the Royal Society (Phil. 

 Trans. A., Vol. 200, 1903, pp. 353-553, plates 21-39). 



Mr. J. Beanland, of 7, Oulton Terrace, Horton Road, Bradford, asks for 

 any information about G. P. Nicholson, a botanist who collected and 

 exchanged a large number of Yorkshire plants between the years 1823 and 

 1834. He has recently seen Nicholson's herbarium, which is in an excellent 

 state, in bound volumes, and contains many of the very best Yorkshire 

 plants, viz., Hidchinsia petrcea, Sedum villosum, Scheuchzeria palustris, 

 Cypripediu7n calceolns, Aspidiuni lonchitis, etc., etc. His correspondents 

 include Tatham, Hooker, Rev. — Harriman, Rev. — Wilson, and Thompson. 



The title of the ' Manchester Geological Society ' has been altered to 

 ' The Manchester Geological and Mining Society.' 



The Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society visited Scarborough 

 for Whitsuntide, and an admirable pamphlet of ' Descriptive Remarks," by 

 C. Fox-Strangways, was issued in connection with the excursion. 



The 73rd meeting of the British Association will be held at Southport 

 from Wednesday, 9th September 1903. The president-elect is Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S. Professor W. W. Watts, M.A., is the president 

 of the Geological Section, and Mr. A. C. Seward, M.A., F.R.S. , is president 

 of the Botanical Section. 



Naturalist, 



