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NORTHERN NEWS. 
We notice that several Lincolnshire antiquities, collected by the late 
Edward Peacock, F.S.A., have been secured for the Lincoln museum. 
We have received Vol. IV., part 1 of The Botanical Society and Exchange 
Club of the British Isles, being the report for 1914, by G. Claridge Druce. 
It occupies 108 pages, has a numter of interesting plates, and is sold at 5s. 
The Thoresby Society's Publication, Vol. XXII., part 3, just issued, 
contains an account of ‘ The Early Cross of Leeds,’ by Prof. W. G. Colling- 
wood, and Mr. A. S. Ellis writes on ‘ Yorkshire, A.D. 120, according to 
Ptolemy’s Geography.’ 
We are glad to learn that Mr. H.C. Versey, M.Sc., has obtained a renewal 
of the scholarship awarded by the Leeds University, in order to complete 
his researches upon the Permian Rocks, which he has been carrying out 
at the Leeds University, with Prof. Kendall and Mr. A. Gilligan.” 
Readers of this journal will remember the interesting contributions 
on the birds and spiders of Rydal, made by the late Miss M. L. Armitt. 
We are pleased to see there is a work on Rydal by Miss Armitt in the press, 
particulars of which will be gladly sent on application to Mrs. Stanford 
Harris, Rydal Cottage, Ambleside. 
At a recent meeting of the Zoological Society of London, Sir Edmund 
G, Loder exhibited the skull of a walrus, with record tusks, from Kam- 
schatka. They weighed twenty-one and a half pounds, and measured 
thirty-six and a half inches in length, twenty-nine and a half inches from 
outside the gum, and nine and five-eighth inches in girth. 
The Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society has issued its 92nd 
report. The chief item in it is the report for Meteorology by T. W. Parkin- 
son. The Society has thirty-two members, and three honorary members. 
During the year a little bunting, a hawfinch, three ‘ Cook’ prints, skin of 
a platypus, a map of the coast, and a view of Whitby, have been added to 
the collections. 
We are glad to welcome part 17 of A History of British Mammals 
(Gurney and Jackson), pages 503-552, 2s. 6d. net. It deals with the 
Field Mouse, Hebridean Field Mouse, St. Kilda Field Mouse, Fair Isle 
Field Mouse, Yellow-necked Field Mouse, De Winton’s Field Mouse; and 
is well illustrated. The question of the identification of the various 
species of mice is becoming more and more difficult. 
The Journal of the Torquay Natural History Society (Vol. 2, No. 1, 
61 pages, Is.) contains among many others, the following items: ‘ The 
Life of a Shore Fly (Fucomyia (Caelopa) frigida Fln.)’, Major E. V. Elwes ; 
‘Study and Collecting of Insects in South Devon,’ Dr. C. L. Perkins ; 
‘Devon Pansies,’ by Miss C. Ethelinda Larter; ‘ Kent’s Cavern, with 
Plan,’ and ‘ Relics of the Ice Age in Devon,’ both by Harford J. Lowe. 
We learn from a review in The Yorkshive Post that the Bankfield 
Museum, Halifax, has followed in the wake of several other museums 
during the past twenty years, viz., 1t “has set an excellent example to 
other Corporation Museums and Libraries, by the issue of pamphlets 
dealing with particular subjects appertaining to objects exhibited within its 
walls.’ If any other museum is thinking of ‘setting such an excellent 
example,’ it must hurry up, as there will soon be no museums left that 
does not publish such handbooks. 
Readers of The Naturalist will be glad to see the following note received 
from Mr. George Mitchell, a member of the Vertebrate section of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, who is now with the British Expeditionary 
Forcesin France. He states, ‘ I have several times seen a Kestrel hovering 
between our trenches and the Germans, absolutely taking no notice of 
the rifle fire, and I also saw a Common Buzzard starting to soar within 20 
yards of the ground and not 200 yards behind our fire trenches !! All 
the birds have got quite used to the war, and one can see larks and their 
broods which they have reared within twenty yards of our trenches.’ 
Naturalist 
