84 Northern News. 
‘ Home-life of the Merlin,’ illustrated with slides, the result 
of many hours watching and photographing from a hiding tent. 
As supplementary to Mr. Taylor’s paper on the same 
subject given at our February meeting, the notes made with 
regard to the feeding, etc., are of particular value, and. it is 
hoped to publish these in an early number of The Naturalist. 
The next paper also, ‘ The British Terns,’ given by Mr. R. 
Fortune (illustrated by many fine pictures) cannot be satis- 
factorily dealt with in these minutes, being a most exhaustive 
history of the Tern family generally, and the British Terns 
in particular. It is hoped therefore it will receive a permanent 
record in The Naturalist. 
Mr. T. Sheppard exhibited a caged specimen of a bird 
sold to the Hull Museum by a Halifax dealer as a Little Bunting, 
taken near Ripon, but doubt was expressed as to its identity 
and to the dealer’s bona fides. The bird had not the behaviour 
of a newly caught wild bird and little doubt existed that the 
recent Yorkshire record of the Blackheaded Bunting from the 
same source is a similar instance of fraud.* 
A. Hatcu-Lumsy, Hon. Sec. 
SSS 
In No. 279 of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Mr. L. F. 
Spath has an elaborate paper on “The Development of Tvagophylloceras 
loscombi (better known as our old friend Ammonites loscombt).’ 
The fourty-fourth Annual Report of the Libraries, Art Gallery and 
Museums Committee of Bradford, contains a creditable list of additions 
to the Art Gallery; these are also particulars of a few additions to the 
Museum. 
We have received from Capt. S. S. Flower, Giza, Egypt, a reference 
list of the Zoological Gardens of the world corrected to August Ist, 1914. 
From this it seems that there are seven in England, and one each in Ireland, 
Scotland and Wales. 
We regret to notice the death of A. R. Hunt, F.G.S., F.L.S., who made 
a special study of ripple-marks, coast erosion, and raised beaches. He 
also contributed largely to the geology of the district in which he lived, 
viz., Dartmoor and Devonshire. He was 72 years of age. 
From Mr. Baker Hudson we have received his ‘Guide to Roman 
Antiquities, found within Cleveland, and now in the Dorman Memorial 
Museum, Middlesbrough,’ (8 pp., 8vo.). It principally refers to the 
specimens found during excavations at the Outlook Fortress at Hunt- 
cliffe, near Saltburn. 
With the January number of the Entomologist’s Monthly Magaztne, 
that journal commences its 51st volume, being the first of the third series. 
We should like to congratulate the editors and publishers on the con- 
tinued prosperity of this publication. In the notes from Dr. E. Bergroth 
on page 16, reference is made to the specimens collected by the late George 
Norman, a well-known Yorkshire naturalist, and on the next page is 
an interesting letter from William Spence, which indicates the extent of 
his share of the work in the well-known Introduction to Entomology. 
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* See The Naturalist for January for details. —ED. 
Naturalist, 
