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Northern News. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs, the well-known entomologist, has died. 



We regret to notice the death of Mr. Edward Hewitt, who for fourteen 

 years has been curator of the Museum at Stockport. 



We learn irom the daily press that ' Dr. F. A. Bather, of the British 

 Museum, advises the collection of local printed matter, posters, bills and 

 notices. Historians, he says, may write what they like about the Kaiser 

 and Hindenburg and Lloyd George, but the great demand would always be 

 for an account of what happened to the ordinary man and what he was 

 doing at the time.' 



When Punch indulges in natural history, he is amusing, if not pathetic. 

 The following is his latest :• — ' One of the rarest of British birds, the 

 Great Bittern, is reported to have been seen in the Eastern counlies 

 during the recent cold spell. In answer to a telephonic enquiry on the 

 matter, Mr. Pocock, of the Zoological Gardens, was heard to murmur : 

 " Once bittern, twice shy." ' From what we know of Mr. Pocock, we are 

 inclined to think that he murmured it was a Great Auks. 



Naturalist, 



