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NORTHERN NEWS. 
The April issue of ‘Yorkshire Notes and Queries’ contains the first 
instalnient of a useful ‘ Bibliography of Yorkshire.’ 
At the request of the Executive Committee, Mr. H. Culpin, of 7, St. Mary’s 
Road, Doncaster, has accepted the position of Treasurer to the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union. 
The ‘leading article’ of a recent issue of ‘The Country Side’ is devoted 
to rabbit fleas, weasel fleas, dog fleas, cat fleas, fowl fleas (not lice), and 
other entertaining topics. 
The seventy-third Annual Report of the Bootham School (York) Natural 
History, Literary, and Polytechnic Society is to hand, and contains evidence 
of a continued interest being taken in Natural History in the school. 
Under the title ‘Bibliotheca Pretiosa,’ Messrs. Sotheran & Co. have 
issued a well illustrated catalogue of unusually choice books and manu- 
scripts of literary and historical interest. The price is half-a-crown. 
The opening address to the Geographical Section of the Birmingham 
Natural History and Philosophical Society, by Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S.‘ 
has just been published by the society (55, Newhall Street, Birmingham) at 
one shilling. 
In the May ‘Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ Mr. E. A. Newbery 
describes Enicmus fungicola, Thoms., a species of Coleoptera new to Britain. 
This was obtained in some numbers in dry fungi on a tree at Edenhall, 
Cumberland. 
Mr. Harper Gaythorpe favours us with a reprint of his paper on ‘ Pre- 
Historic Implements in Furness,’ in which stone, flint, and bronze weapons 
are described. (Trans. Cumb. and West’d. Ant. and Arch. Soc. New 
Series, Vol. VI.). 
At a recent meeting of the Bradford Natural History and Microscopical 
Society, Mr. J. W. Carter, F.E.S., the newly-elected president, delivered a 
presidential address, in which he reviewed the work of the Society, which 
was formed in 1875. Mr. Carter was one of its earliest members. 
Our contributor, Mr. T. Petch, who is now the Government Mycologist 
of Ceylon, sends us his Report, as well as pamphlets dealing with ‘ Bud rot 
of the Cocoanut Palm,’ ‘ Root disease of Hevea brasiliensis,’ and ‘ Descriptions 
of New Ceylon Fungi.’ We understand Mr. Petch is to visit England in 
October. 
Drawn up by Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., is an admirably illustrated 
‘Guide to the Aquarium’ of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee at 
Port Erin Biological Station, Isle of Man. The illustrations have been 
principally prepared by Mr. H.C. Chadwick, the Curator of the Station, 
and the Guide is sold at the small price of threepence. 
Newspaper Natural History. One of our dailies deplores the loss to 
shipping, due to the efforts of ‘the worm, Zesfudo navalis’! A Welsh paper 
offers for sale a Shire Stallion, ‘very muscular, good bone, sz/ky feathers.’ 
In drawing attention to the meteorological advantages of Scarborough, the 
Scarborough Post records that last year the total sunshine was 158,025 hours, 
an average of 430 hours of sunshine a day. No wonder Dr. H. R. Mill, at 
the British Association at York, gave us a warning as to the accuracy of 
meteorological records published at our holiday resorts! In Huddersfield 
a ‘Chip Potato Plant’ is offered for sale, and Punch suggests that in the 
same department may be found a Navy Cut Tobacco Plant, and a Stewed 
Celery Bed. Inthe Huddersfield Chronicle we notice the following displayed 
advertisement :—‘ Mr. ————,, the old botanist from the ————— Society, 
will undertake to name any local wild plant every Sunday evening until 
further notice John Bray, proprietor, Arms Hotel, Street 
— Brewery Ales, Spirits, and Cigars of the choicest quality.’ Hudders- 
field always has been a good botanical centre! 
Naturalist, 
