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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
THE YORK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
Tue Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 
1906 is of particular interest. From it we learn that an attempt 
has been made to grow a classified series of British plants in 
the Garden, and though the scheme was not very successful, it 
is hoped to carry it through in the future. Mr. Oxley Grabham 
has again given some valuable objects to the museum, including 
some ‘unique Guillemots’ eggs, respecting which we should 
have liked more details. The society is justly proud of the part 
it played in connection with the 75th meeting of the British 
Association, and prints ‘probably the only permanant local 
record of this noteworthy event’ in its report. Mr. H. J. 
Wilkinson gives a very useful Historical Account of the 
Society’s Herbarium and the contributors thereto. This paper 
contains lengthy notices of James Dalton, Robert Teesdale, 
Christopher Machell, Samuel Goodenough, Wm. Jackson 
Hooker, Joseph Dalton Hooker, William Bingley, Samuel 
Hailstone, Richard Spruce, Henry Ibbotson, Henry Baines, 
and James Blackhouse—all honoured names in the botanical 
world. Mr. George Benson has an excellent illustrated paper 
on ‘Some Relics of the Viking Period recently found in York,’ 
Mr. J. E. Clarke deals with ‘The Windrush at Biggin,’ and 
there are some useful meteorological tables. The report 
certainly gives evidence of scientific activity at York. 
A LAND-SHELL NEW TO THE FAUNA OF THE 
BRITISH” TISEES: 
Messrs. John W. Taylor and W. Denison Roebuck, of Leeds, 
have been spending a week with the Irish Conchologists, on the 
occasion of the Cork Conference of the Irish Field Club Union. 
The molluscan work was very considerable, for Messrs. Robert 
Welch, A. W. Stelfox, and J. N. Milne, of Belfast, Mr. R. A. 
Phillips, of Cork, and Mr. Robert Standen, of the Manchester 
Museum, were all in the field—and the districts round Cork, as 
at Youghal, Macroom, Kinsale, Aghada, Blarney, etc., were 
very closely and carefully investigated. At the Conference Mr. 
Taylor read a carefully worked-out paper, in which he, for the 
first time, made public the addition of a fine well-marked and 
conspicuously distinct species of land mollusc to the Irish and 
British list. This was Vitrina elongata, Dp., found in fair 
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