64 Northern News. 
Mr. Arthur R. Warnes does the same for Fungi, and Mr. T. 
Stainforth for Coleoptera. In connection with the latter it is 
satisfactory to note that it is proposed to devote a cabinet in 
the Hull Museum to a type collection of British Coleoptera. 
Mr. Sheppard’s very appropriately written Presidential 
Address is worthy of one who combines with that office the 
Curatorship of the splendid museum Hull can now boast of, 
and who is this year honoured with one of the awards of the 
Geological Society of London. 
Mr. J. Fraser Robinson treats of Botanical Notes of 1906, 
rounding off the series of local reports of investigation, and the 
Report of the Committee gives a record of unabated enthusiasm 
and well-deserved success. 
We look forward for more and similarly satisfactory records 
of future work.—R. 
NORTHERN NEWS. 
In the journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club (Vol. 9, No. 57), Mr. 
C. D. Soar has an interesting paper entitled ‘ Notes and Observations on 
the Life-History of Fresh-w ater Mites.” 
A ‘Knowledge’ Book Club, in connection with ‘ Knowledge and Scientific 
News,’ formed in December, was discontinued owing to lack of support in 
January, and the books are to be offered for sale in February. 
‘Ornithological Notes from Derbyshire,’ for the year 1905, is one of the 
many interesting papers in the ‘ Journal of the Derby shire Archzeological 
and Natural History Society ’ for 1906, recently published. 
Under the heading ‘Myrmacophilous Notes for 1906,’ in the December 
‘Entomologist’s Record,’ Mr. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe enumerates several 
captures in Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberland. The same journal 
also contains particulars of ‘ Additions to the Coleoptera of the Northumber- 
land and Durham district,’ 1906, by Mr. R. S. Bagnall. 
The recently issued ‘Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association’ (Vol. 19, 
Pt. 10) contains a record of the Association's ‘long excursion’ to the York- 
shire Coast in 1906, illustrated by some excellent photographs by Mr. 
Godfrey Bingley. The same Proceedings also contain a paper on ‘The 
Geology of the Yorkshire Coast between 1 Redcar and Robin Hood's Bay,” 
by Mire Ro S: Herries: 
The Geological Society of London will this year award its medals and 
funds as follows :—The Wollaston medal to Prof, W. J. Sollas, M.A., F.R.S. 
the Murchison medal to Mr. Alfred Harker, M.A., F.R.S; the Lyell 
medal to Dr. J. F. Whiteaves of Ottawa; the Wollaston fund to Dr. 
Arthur Vaughan, B.A.; the Murchison fund to Dr, Felix Oswald, B.A. ; 
and the Lyell Fund to Mr. T. C. Cantrill and Mr. Thomas Sheppard. 
It is gratifying. to find that the study of nature is spreading! At a 
meeting of Suffolk guardians recently, it was reported that in consequence 
of workhouse fare an inmate known as the ‘human hairpin’ had become as 
‘fat asa mole.’ Possibly the above paragraph will help us to understand 
what was meant by the item, a ‘human flea,’ on the list of exhibits at 
the recent excellent conversazione of the Doncaster Scientific Society. 
Naturalist, 
