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NORTHERN NEWS. 



Mr. J. W. Baldwin contributes a few notes on the ' Land Shells of the 

 Turton District' to the October 'Journal of Concholog'y. ' 



Seals still seem to be common on the East coast. During- the last few 

 weeks they have been recorded at Aldboroug^h, Bridling-ton, and other 

 places. 



A Nature Stud\' Exhibition and Conference in connection with the East 

 Riding- Nature Study Committee is to be held at Beverley, on Saturda^', 

 2ist November. 



Judging from various reports there appears to have been quite an 

 invasion of the Painted Lady ( Vanessa cardui) along the east coast towards 

 the end of September. In some places they were seen in great numbers. 



The Rev. J. Conwa}' Walter informs us that an Albino Hare has been 

 shot in the parish of Kirkstead, and sent to Mr. Stafford Walter, of Horn- 

 castle, who has also received a young- Crossbill shot at Asgarby, near 

 Horncastle, by mistake for a sparrow. 



A model of a piece of field work that might with advantag-e be followed 

 up bv various field clubs throughout the county is to be found in the 

 ' Halifax Naturalist ' for October. This is a short paper on * The Dis- 

 tribution and Association of Mosses and Hepatics in the Parish of Halfax,' 

 by C. Crossland, F.L.S. 



The July 'Essex Naturalist' recoi-ds (p. 85) that a fine specimen (^i 

 the British Marten {Miistela martes L. ) had been presented to the club's 

 museum by Mr. T. E. Harting. The animal was killed in Wastdale, 

 ■Cumberland, in October 1887, and had been engraved by Mr. G. E. Lodg-e 

 for a plate in ' The Zoologist,' 1891. 



An exceedingly valuable paper on ' Bird Migration in Solway ' appears 

 in 'The Annals of Scottish Natural History' for October, from the pen 

 of Mr. Robert Service. The author finds that the dates of arrival of the 

 spring migrants are earlier on the west coast of England and Scotland than 

 on the same latitude of the east coast. 



At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held in the Drill Hall, 

 Victoria Street, London, on 15th September, Dr. M. C. Cooke gave a lec- 

 ture on 'Edible Fungi.' In connection with this an exhibit of Yorkshire 

 fungi was made by the Secretary of the Yorkshire Mycological Committee. 

 At the same meeting- Mr. C. Crossland, F.L.S., was awarded a Banksian 

 silver medal for his exhibit of fung;i. 



At a recent meeting of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Society, 

 Mr. T. Patch stated that about fifty species of Mycetozoa had been dis- 

 covered in the East Riding during the past year, chiefly in the neighbour- 

 hood of Hedon and Aldborough. With a view to the publication of a com- 

 plete list of these org-anisms for this area, Mr. Petch will be g-lad to receive 

 specimens, or information of previous records, etc. These should be 

 addressed to 97, Fillebrook Road, Leytonstone, E. 



The papers of particular interest to our readers in the ' Southport Hand- 

 book' are: — ' Analyses of Southport Water,' by J. C. Thresh ; 'Meteorology,' 

 by J. Baxendell ; ' Geology,' b}' H. Brodrick and E. Dickson; ' The Ribble 

 Estuary,' by E. Dickson ; ' Botany,' by W. H. Stansfield and H. Ball ; 

 ' Hypo'pitys iiioiiotrupa Crantz,' by H. Ball ; ' Mosses and Hepaticas,' by 

 J. A. Wheldon ; ' Foraminifera,' by G. W. Chaster; ' Lepidoptera,' by 

 E. N. Pierce and J. R. Charnley ; ' Coleoptera,' by G. W. Chaster and 

 ¥.. J. Burgess Sopp ; 'Aranese,' by A. R. Jackson ; ' Mollusca,' by G. W. 

 Chaster ; ' Marine Fauna and Fisheries,' by Prof. W. A. Herdman and J. C. 

 Thompson; 'The Vertebrate Fauna'; 'Martin Mere and its Antiquities,' 

 by H. Brodrick ; 'Archaeology,' by W. Brunt ; and 'The Life and Works iif 

 Kev. Jeremiah Horrox,' by G. Napier Clark. 



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