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NORTHERN NEWS, etc. 



The death is announced of Worthington G. Smith of Dunstable, at 

 the age of 82. 



The Huddersfield Technical College is appealing for support to enable 

 it to enlarge the buildings. 



Prof. J. E. Marr, F.R.S., has been appointed Woodwardian Professor 

 of Geology, Cambridge, in succession to the late Prof. T. McKenny Hughes. 



We are glad to see that a Royal medal has been awarded by the Royal 

 Society to Dr. A. Smith Woodward for his researches in vertebrate 

 pal tontology. 



We regret to learn that Dr. Eagle Clarke of the Royal Scottish Museum 

 has had the misfortune to meet with an accident which has resulted in 

 the fracture of one of the bones of his right hand. 



In The Entomologist for November, Dr. J. W. H. Harrison writes on 

 ' Baldvatia salicovnice (Kieffer) and Stefaniella brevipalpis (Kieffer), two 

 Cecidomyidae New to the British Fauna, with reference to other insects, ' 

 based on specimens collected in Durham. 



British Birds for November contains an illustrated article on John 

 Hunt (1777-1842), by Capt. H. S. Gladstone. There is also a record on 

 Shags in Cheshire and Lancashire, and a note on ' Newly discovered Irish 

 Colonies of Roseate and Sandwich Terns,' by C. J. Carroll. 



A Catalogue of the Borough of Newark Municipal Museum (32 pages, 

 2d.) has been issued, and contains detailed particulars of over 400 exhibits. 

 An unusual feature is the advertisements, which cannot be torn out, as 

 they are printed on the backs of the pages containing the descriptions. 



In the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 (Vol. LXIX., pt. 1), Mr. S. Berry gives the name Moschites challengeri 

 to a cephalopod, taken in 1874, which was described by Dr. W. E. Hoyle 

 in 1 886 as M. virrucosa. Mr. Berry considers that the specimen is not 

 virrucosa but a new species. 



The Annual Report of the Scottish Marine Biological Association is 

 to hand, and contains the familiar good record of a year's work, illustrated 

 by reproductions of very fine photographs of various forms of marine 

 life. There is also a useful ' Price List of specimens obtainable from 

 the Marine Station, Millport.' 



We have received from Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., a reprint of two 

 interesting papers of his which appear in the Summary of Progress of 

 the Geological Survey for 1916. They are entitled ' On a Deep Boring 

 Made in 1907-9 at Battle,' and ' The Underground Range of the Jurassic 

 and Lower Cretaceous Rocks in East Kent.' 



After a little sleep Knowledge again makes it appearance, No. 582, 

 Jan-Sept. (p. 1-20) being published. The next number has been promised 

 on November 25th. Among the papers are ' Flora Selborniensis, ' ' The 

 experimental work of Dr. Bastian on the Origin of Life,' ' Weather Fore- 

 casting ' and several shorter notes. There are some excellent illustrations. 



In a note on ' The Naturalist's Joys,' in The Selborne Magazine for 

 November, the Rev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock records that he got a 

 nest over fifty years, which he has just identified as that of the Nuthatch. 

 He also once recorded that the Cuckoo ' lays her egg on the ground, 

 takes it up in her bill, and places it in the nest of the small bird she is 

 about to victimise.' He did not know at the time he recorded his ob- 

 servation that it was ' a new thing.' 



In The Entomologist' s Monthly Magazine for November, Mr. E. A. Butler 

 records ' Two Additons to the List of British Hemiptera-Heteroptera,' 

 one of which, Orthotylus virens, is from Cumberland. In the same number 

 is a note by Dr. E. Bergroth in which he states ' In the August number 

 of the present volume of this magazine pp. 180-182, Mr. E. A. Butler has 

 published a paper to the effect that the British representative of this 

 genus (Aphelochirus) should bear the name A. montandoni Horv. I feel 

 sure, however, that it should retain its old name, aestivalis Fabr.' 



