4IO Reviews and Book Notices. 



MOSSES and HEPATICS. 



Mosses at Caistor. — On the excursion of the Lincohishire 

 Naturahsts' Union on 28th Aug^ust 1902, Miss S. AUett and the 

 Rev. W. W. Mason collected mosses. Twenty-six mosses and 

 three hepatics were taken, but as Div. 3 has been fairly well 

 worked only four mosses and one hepatic were new to the 

 division, Fissidens taxifoliiis Hedw., Barbiila fallax Hedw., 

 Amhlystegiiini filicinum De Not., Hypniini conimiitatiini Hedw., 

 and Marchantia polytiiorpha. — S. C. Stow, Grantham. 



Mosses at Careby. — A quantity of mosses were taken on 

 the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union meeting on 9th June 1903, 

 but nearly all were noted at a former meeting at Careby (July 

 1900). Those not seen then and, as far as J know, new to 

 Division 16, are: — Fuiiaria hygromeirica Sibth., abundant on a 

 patch of burnt ground in Monk's Wood ; Zygodon viridissimus 

 R.Br., Leucodon sciuroides Schwgr. , Eiirhyiichiiim striatum 

 B.&S., E. piliferimi B.&S., E. ruscifonne Milde., 3.nd Hypiiic?ii 

 ■molliiscum Hedw. The hepatic Plagiochila asplenioides was taken 

 in Monk's Wood. — S. C. Stow, Court Leys, Brandon, Grantham. 



REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett, F. L. S., has sent us a reprint of his valuable paper 

 on the ' Distribution of Peucedaniim palustre and Lathyrus palustris in 

 Britain.' (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Vol. 7, Part 4, 

 1903, pp. 467-476). Mr. Bennett enumerates several Yorkshire and other 

 northern county records. 



The Proceedings and Annual Report of the Liverpool Geological Asso- 

 ciation for 1901-1902 has just been issued. It contains 42 pages, and reads 

 rather like a reprint of the Secretary's minute book. We should like to see 

 more original notes in this publication, and they should have reference to 

 the Liverpool district. 



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The most valuable paper in the Eighth Report of the Southport Society 

 of Natural Science, just issued, is the Presidential address of Mr. Harold 

 Brodrick, dealing with the geology and antiquities of ' Martin Mere.' We 

 should like to see more papers of this character, and fewer of the type of 

 ' Pond Life,' ' Cremation,' etc., which, interesting in their vvay, add little or 

 nothing to our knowledge of the natural history of the Southport district, 

 the printing of which must be a burden on the society's funds. 



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Judg-ing from the reports of the various sections printed in the 'Annual 

 Transactions of the Manchester Microscopical Society,' for 1902, just to 

 hand, the society is accomplishing- excellent work. There are several 

 papers of general interest (including the presidential address of Prof. S. J. 

 Hickson), some of which are illustrated bj- excellent plates. The papers 

 of particular interest to our readers (though some are rather short) are 

 'The Microscopic Structure of Mountain Limestone,' by J. Barnes, F.G.S.; 

 'A "Visit to the Sound (Lsle of Man),' by A. P. Bradshaw ; and ' Some Features 

 of East Lincolnshire,' by C. Turner, F. C.S. The Report contains 108 

 pages and is sold at is. 6d. 



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