Reviews and Book Xotices. 



S. L. Mosley. It 

 We learn that to 



The Keii^hley Corporation Museum has just issued a penny ' Guide No. 

 presumably the first of a series. It deals with the British birds and, thoutj'h 

 not siyiied, is evidently the work of the Curator, Mr. 

 contains eig'ht closely printed paij'es, ami is illustrated, 

 the ordinary visitor to the seaside 



'A Sea-ijull fiyinjjf o'er the deep, 



Or perched upon the shore, 

 A simple ' Sea-g'ull ' is to them. 



And it is nothing- more.' 



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' The Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for igo2 ' has 

 just been issued. Mr. H. J. Wilkinson gives Part 9 of the ' Catalogue of 

 Plants' in the Society's herbarium, which includes several northern county 

 records. Notes on meteorology, recent excavations, and additions to the 

 museum are also included. 



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A portion of a skull and horn cores of Bos primigenius, in very good 

 state of preservation, has recently been found at New Holland, at a depth 

 of 20 feet. Along the outside of the horns from tip to tip the measurement 

 is five feet. The accompanying sketch of the horns is taken from the fifth 



Horn Cores of Bos primigenius. 



Quarterly Record of additions to the Hull Museum (Publication No. 15) just 

 issued. The same publication contains an account of a mammoth tusk 

 found at Brough, and various items of antiquarian interest. It is also 

 stated that about eighty vases of local wild flowers, gathered fresh, are on 

 exhibition in the Museum. 



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Mosses with hand-lens and microscope, a non-technical hand-book of 

 the more Common Mosses of the North-eastern United States. Part I., by 

 A. J. Grant, Ph.D., New York, 1903, price >^\, has just been issued. It is 

 an admirable 4to production of 86 pages, with several excellent plates and 

 numerous illustrations in the text. 



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The Report of the Manchester Museum, Owens College, for the year 

 1902-3 has just been issued. It contains particulars of the extensive work 

 accomplished during the year at the Museum, with a list of donations, etc. 



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Professor Boyd Dawkins' paper on the Derbyshire Bone Cave (see ' The 

 Naturalist,' July, pp. 226-7) has been reprinted as Notes from the Manchester 

 Museum, No. 16. 



1903 September i. 



