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avoided, that no male Grey Seal ever, to my knowledge, landed 
on this island or lay on any outlying rock of it, as was the daily 
practice of one which I watched in the Shetlands, earlier in the 
year. Nor, with one exception, for which there may have been 
a special reason, did I see a female land upon it except for the 
purpose of suckling the young. The males, or both they and 
the females, may have their habitual resting-rocks elsewhere, 
but possibly the difference is a real one and represents a change 
in the general habits of the species, brought about by the 
breeding season. The bulls and cows—when the latter are 
not engaged in their maternal duties, which are light enough 
except when the calves are quite tiny—seem now to be keeping 
each other company in the sea. The siesta is no longer chic. 
SeenON 
Part 6 of Vol. XXXIV. of the Transactions of the Manchester Geo- 
logical and Mining Society contains Mr. H. Bolton’s Paper on the ‘ Fauna 
and Stratigraphy of the Kent Coalfield.’ 
The Transactions of the Manchester Geological and Mining Society, 
Vol. XXXIV., part 5, contain an illustrated paper by J. E. Wynfield 
Rhodes dealing with ‘ The Drift#Deposits of Prestwich, Manchester and 
Neighbourhood.’ 
No. 22 of the Journal of the Leeds Astronomical Society (Leeds : 
R. Jackson & Son, 140 pages, 2s.) is quite as interesting as usual, and 
among its contents we notice articles on ‘ Meteorites’ by A. Gilligan, 
B.Sc. ; ‘The History of the Telescope’ by Thomas Benton ; ‘ Solar Eclipses” 
by Arthur Burnet; ‘Maria Gaetana Agnesi’ by G. Thorp; ‘ Meteoric 
Observations ’ by W. F. Denning ; ‘ The Modern Equipment of Astronomy ” 
by Rev. Ivo. Gregg, and several shorter notes, as well as a lengthy account 
of the work of the Society. It is an excellent record for a provincial 
society. 
The Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Lit. and Phil. Society, 
vol. LIX., part 2, contains four valuable memoirs namely ‘ A Note on the 
Behaviour of a Blackbird—a Problem in Mental Development’ by T. A. 
Coward ; ‘ Studies in the Morphology of Isoétes. II. The Analysis of the 
Stele of the Shoot of Isoétes lacustris in the light of Mature Structure 
and Apical Development ’ by Prof. W. H. Lang ; ‘ On two cases of Parallel- 
ism in the Aphid’ by A. W. Rymer Roberts; ‘On the Significance of 
the Geographical Distribution of the Practice of Mummification—A Study 
of the Migrations of Peoples and the spread of certain Customs and Beliefs ’ 
by Prof. G. Elliot Smith. It is very gratifymg to find that this old-estab- 
lished society is still literary and philosophical. 
The Annual Report of the Searborough Philosophical and Archeological 
Society for 1914 is to hand and includes the Records of the Scarborough 
Field Naturalists’ Society for the same year. Dr. John Irving writes on 
‘Marine Invertebrate Zoology;’ ; Mr. W. J. Clarke on ‘ Vertebrate Zoology 
(other than Aves)’; Mr. A. Harman on ‘ Mollusca’; Mr. R. A. Taylor on 
‘ Arachnida and Siphonaptera‘; Mr. J. A. Hargreaves on ‘ Geology’ ; 
Mr. E. C. Horrell on ‘Coleoptera’; Mr. A. S. Tetley on ‘ Lepidoptera ’ - 
Mr. D. W. Bevan on ‘ Aculeate Hymenoptera’; Mr. A. I. Burnley on 
‘Phanerogamia’; Mr. A. E. Peck on ‘ Basidiomycetes ‘; Mr. T. B. Roe 
on the ‘ Remaining Fungi’; Mr. T. N. Roberts on ‘ Ornithology.’ As 
the frontispiece is a photograph of the Barracks on Castle Hill after the 
Bombardment of December 16th, 1914. 
Naturalist, 
