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Psylla mali Schm. Not uncommon from crabapple, Gun- 
nergate, Middlesbrough, Marton. 
P. alni Linn. Common on alder, Lonsdale, Great Ayton, 
Eston ; is green in summer but red and black in the autumn 
brood. 
P. forsterc Flor. With P. alni but much rarer—exactly 
the opposite to what holds in North Durham. In Mid-Durham 
the two are equally abundant. Both feed on alder, causing 
the unsightly cottony secretion which is such a nuisance when 
one is beating that tree ; occasionally both favour birch. 
P. buxit Linn. Common on box in July; in millions on 
the boxes in Middlesbrough Park. 
spart Guér. Sparingly on broom in Lonsdale. 
Arytaena genistae Lat. Plentiful on broom in Lonsdale. 
Trioza urticae Linn. Abundant on all low plants in Septem- 
ber and October, but beaten quite freely from elm, blackthorn, 
GUC. 
T. albwentris Férst. Sparingly in October and November 
from sallow and silver fir. Nunthorpe’ 
Ol = aa 
Mr. R. Standen has been elected President of the Conchological Society 
Great Britain. : 
Mr. E. Heron-Allen has kindly sent us a copy of the late Prof. E. A. 
Minchin’s address to the Zoological Section of the British Association. 
We have received the 4nnual Reports of the Huddersfield Naturalists, 
and Photographic Society for 1914-15 (8 pages, 8vo), which includes notes 
on the year’s work by H. C. Ellis, C. Mosley, J. H. Carter, E. Fisher and 
T. W. Woodhead. 
The Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, volume XXVI., nate 
4, contains the presidential address of Mr. G. W. Young, F.G.S., entitled : 
“The Geological History of Flying Vertebrates.’ It is an exceptionally 
interesting contribution, and, zntey alia, refers to a specimen from Whitby. 
In Vol. XVII., No. 81 of The Mineralogical Magazine, which was issued 
in September, we notice a paper on ‘ The Garnet and streaky rocks of the 
English Lake District’ by Mr. J. F. N. Green. Mr. Green concludes that 
the garnets, pyrites, and streaky alteration have been formed by circulating 
solutions under high hydrostatic pressure, probably during the solfataric 
stage of the Borrowdale volcanic episode. 
The Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature and Art has issued its 
Forty-fourth Annual Report and Proceedings, which contain an account 
of the society’s work during the year, as well as particulars of the additions 
to the society’s library and museum. There are also the usual lists 
of members, balance sheet, rules, etc. With the report has been issued, 
separately, a lecture on ‘ Poems by Charles Kingsley,’ by the Rev. Alex- 
ander Nairne, D.D. 
“Over the whole basin of the Atlantic there is spread an enormously 
thick covering of what seems to be mud, but is really a mixture of tiniest 
shells, either perfect or in pieces, that need the microscope to be seen. 
This is called Globigerina Ooze—just as if it were a girl.’—Cumberland 
Evening Mail. To this Punch adds: ‘ We ourselves should never think 
of giving a girl a name like that.’ We quite agree with Punch. Besides 
ooze Globigerina ? 
1915 Dec. 1. 
