128 Northern News. 
My last conversation with him was about three months ago, 
when he detailed to me some of his experiences at the Flam- 
borough excursion and the Farnley Tyas Fungus Foray of the 
past year. Mr. Hemingway was a genial companion in the 
field, as the writer can testify on many an occasion. 
In the Flamborough group (‘The Naturalist,’ 1906, p. 248), 
his life-like portrait * occupies a prominent place to the left of 
the picture. —P. F.L. 
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NORTHERN NEWS. 
‘Le Bambou, son etude, Sa Culture, son Emploi’ is the title of a periodical 
published at Mons, Belgium, which is devoted exclusively to the culture and 
uses of Bamboo. The first volume has just been completed. 
Mr. A. G. Tansley, of the University College, London, has been appointed 
Lecturer in Botany at Cambridge in succession to Mr. A. C. Seward, who 
has succeeded the late Prof. Marshall Ward in the Chair of Botany. 
A White Blackbird and a Pied Sparrow are reported as living in the 
grounds of the Hancock Natural History Museum. When last we heard of 
them they were on the right side of the walls of the Museum. 
At a recent meeting of the Doncaster Scientific Society the following 
gentlemen were elected honorary members of the Society :—Messrs. E. G, 
Bayford, C. Crossland, P. F. Kendall, G. T. Porritt, T. Sheppard, and 
J. W. Taylor. 
Still further evidence of the spread of nature knowledge. The posters 
recently issued by the ‘authorities’ in reference to the new regulations 
relating to dogs, officially informs us that ‘dogs shall be animals for the 
purposes of the following sections,’ etc. 
In the February Geological Magazine, Prof. E. J. Garwood has some 
‘Notes on the Faunal Succession in the Carboniferous Limestone of West- 
moreland and neighbouring portions of Lancashire and Yorkshire.’ The 
same magazine has an excellent portrait (with memoir) of Mr. W. Whitaker, 
[Bvalon Nola sey MCE 
In an article on ‘ Marble and Marble Working’ in ‘ The Quarry’ for 
February, we learn that ‘ Crinoidal... applies to marbles made up of 
fossilised shell fragments. In some cases the shell formation is retained 
entire, in others it has been replaced by calcite crystals.’ Before making 
any criticisms, geologists should read the article immediately following on 
‘The value of detonating caps in blasting!” A little further in the same 
journal a blasting accident is recorded at Penrhiwceiber, we hope an 
attempt to pronounce the name had nothing to do with it. 
Another writer on crinoids, in ‘The Country Side,’ informs us that a 
pentacrinus consists of a cup-shaped body with a crown or arms ‘attached 
by a stalk belonging to the Pentacrinidaz.’ The stalk consists of ‘ring- 
like or pentagonal joints,’ and ‘The whole group is Paleozoic, . . . these 
particular ones are Jurassic, ranging from the Trias to the present day,’ 
‘In view of this scientific statement,’ the author adds ‘it will be wiser to add 
nothing upon the ‘*‘star-stone’s” magical properties.’ — It will. 
* With his hat upon -his knee. 
Naturalist, 
