406 Northern News. 
FUNGI. 
Pistillaria furcata Sm. in Yorkshire.—Early in Octo- 
ber Mr. W. Pearson found on Seamer Moor, specimens of an 
interesting fungus, Pistillaria furcata Sm., which is new to 
Yorkshire. The specimens are from 4 to 1} inches in height. 
The ‘clubs’ vary very much in shape from cylindric-clavate to 
spathulate and even to broadly cuneate or deltoid. Some- 
times they are very broad at the apex and up to about 12 mm. 
across there. Occasionally they are somewhat forked at the 
apex and remarkably compressed. In colour they are waxy- 
white or with a pale yellowish tinge. The spores are elliptic- 
oblong, continuous, smooth and coloured grey, and in size 
about 10-14 X 4-6. The basidia are remarkably large and 
turgid. The specimens were growing among the stones of 
a cart-track on the moor.—T. B. RoE, Scarborough. 
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We regret to note the death of George Thomas Egglestone, of Con- 
sett, at the age of 64. He was at one time President of the Consett 
Naturalists’ Field Club. 
It is pleasing to find that an anonymous benefactor has sent £1,368 to 
the Manchester University to pay off the debt on the new extension of 
the museum, recently made to contain the Egyptian antiquities and local 
minerals. 
We regret to record the death of Sir Arthur William Ricker, the 
famous scientist. He was born in 1848, was the eldest son of Mr. D. H. 
Ricker, and after a distinguished career at Oxtord, became Professor of 
Mathematics and Physics at York College in 1874. He was Professor of 
Physics, Royal College of Science, London, 1886-1901, and Principal of 
the University of London r901-8. From 1891 to 1898 Sir Arthur was 
Treasurer of the British Association, and was President in I902. Other 
offices included President of the Physical Society 1893-95, and Secretary 
of the Royal Society 1896-1901. Sir Arthur was a member of several 
Royal Commissions. 
At a recent meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 
Society, Mr. F. N. Pierce exhibited Pevonea fissuyvana and Halonata 
littovalana and two new species of Tortrices discovered by examination 
of the genitalia, and read descriptions of the species. Mr. A. W. Hughes 
showed a series of Tviphena fimbria from Delamere, one example being 
of the scarce mahogany-red form. Dr. A. Randell Jackson brought an 
exhibit of humble bees and their parasites captured in his garden at Chester, 
comprising some forty species. Mr. H. B. Prince’s exhibit contained 
long series of many local insects, prominent among them being Bombyx 
tvifolit from the Lancashire coast : Lycena covydon and var. semisyngvapha: 
Vanessa urtice, several specimens having the usual orange-red colour 
replaced by fuscous-ochreous: and Carterocephalus palemon. Mr. W. 
Mansbridge shewed Lyc@na @gon, a series from Witherslack, Westmorland, 
with var. masseyi, and a male in which the orange spots on the underside 
were dark fuscous-ochreous, while the hind-wings on the upper side were 
slaty-grey: from Simonswood several specimens of Acyonycta leporina 
var. melanocephala: Hyyia muricata, moss form, and Ennychia octoma- 
culata from Witherslack: Rhodaria sanguinalis from Wallasey: Pevonea 
comparvana, P. variegana and Depressaria assimilella from Delamere 
Forest, the last named being new to the county list. Mr. W. G. Clutten 
sent a specimen of Gelechia scalella taken at Burnley: this insect is new 
to the county list and an extension of its distribution towards the north. 
Naturalist, 
