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Yorkshire,’ and whilst, of course, the somewhat brief account in 
the Victoria History is necessarily of a different type altogether 
from that about to appear in the two thick volumes dealing with 
the birds of the county, it is much to be regretted that the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union was not able to get its monograph 
before the public first. In examining Mr. Grabham’s list we 
notice a preference for the records of specimens which have 
been shot near York or are in the York Museum, but this is 
quite pardonable. ‘Mr. G. Hewett of York’ seems unfamiliar, 
and we take this opportunity of informing Mr. Grabham that 
Mr. Hewitt’s christian name is William. In the account of the 
Cetacea it might have been worth while to have added that the 
specimen of Sibbald’s Rorqual caught at Spurn some years ago 
is the type specimen of that species, as was described in this 
journal for August, 1901.* 
(Zo be continued). 
2 OS 
‘We have received the Annual Report for 1995 of the Public Museums 
and Meteorological Observatory of Bolton. It has been prepared by the 
Curator, Mr. T. Midgley, and contains a record of a useful year’s work. 
Under the title ‘Nature's Night-Watchman,’ Mr. Frank Finn figures 
and describes several species of owls in the April ‘Animal World.’ His 
photographs of the different species are very useful. 
At a recent meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 
Society Mr. Sopp exhibited the cockroach Phoraspis leucogramme, 
taken in the Liverpool docks, this being a Brazilian species not previously 
recorded as having occurred in Europe. 
An interesting illustrated pamphlet on ‘ Allotments,’ by T. W. Sanders* 
F.L.S., has been issued by the Agricultural and Horticultural Association 
(one penny). It is the eighth issue of the ‘One and All’ practical gardening 
handbooks, edited by Edward Owen Greening. The author gives practical 
illustrations of the obtaining and working of allotments, and the editor adds 
some detailed advice ‘how to proceed.’ 
From the ‘ Keighley Museum Report, 1906" we learn that it has been 
decided that Airedale shall be the District represented by its Museum, and 
towards securing specimens from this area, the Curator, Mr. S. L. Mosley, 
proposes to devote a very large portion of his leisure time, and all ‘ holidays.’ 
The labels etc., printed at the Keighley Museum are reprinted on 8vo, sheets 
of paper, and issued as ‘Keighley Museum Notes.’ Of these 58 have already 
appeared. They principally deal with botanical and entomological subjects. 
Miss M. V. Lebour favours us with a reprint of her paper on ‘Larval 
Trematodes of the Northumberland Coast’ (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. of 
Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-Tyne, New Series, Vol I., 
pt. 3). The authoress deals with this very neglected order in detail, and 
gives particulars of the various species of mollusca which are infested with 
Trematodes. Illustrating the paper are plates showing Monostomum 
flavum, Cercaria ubiquita, C. pirum, Monostomum (Cercaria {lophocerca), 
C. oocysta, Distomum (Echinostomum) leptosomum, and Bucephalus 
haimeanus. 
Naturalist, 
