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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



According to the report of the Borough Librarian and Secretary to- 

 the Museum Committee of the Borough of Beverley, just to hand, the 

 Pubhc Library Committee at Beverley, includes an assistant, an attendant, 

 and Mr. and Mrs. Barrow, cleaners. 



No. 4 of the first volume of the Journal of the Torquay Natural History 



Society, contains a continuation of Mr. H. J. Lowe's History of the Society ; 

 abstracts of lectures on the Origin of Life, Economy in plants, Tides, Cy- 

 clones and Moorland Diatoms. Mr. E. V. Elwes has a useful paper on 

 ' Local Natural History Societies,' and Mr. J. B. Bessell gives the second 

 part of his list of the diatoms of the Torquay district. 



The Tliirty-Fifth Annual Report and Proceedings of the Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Entomological Society (24 pp., 2/-), beside the list of members 

 and summary of the proceedings, contain a valuable address on ' The 

 Early Stages of our Dragonflies,' by Mr. W. J. Lucas. In this the author 

 gives a useful summary of the literature on the subject, and points out the 

 directions in which information is wanted in reference to the early stages 

 of the Odonata. 



Beside Prof. Minchin's Presidential Address, referred to in another 

 column, the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, No. 70, contains 

 a paper by H. Sidebottom, on " Lagenas of the South-West Pacific Ocean " 

 (with 8 plates), another by C. F. Rousselet is on " Notholca triarthroides, 

 Cathypna brachydactyla, and on a new Brachionus from North Dakota " ; 

 and one by D. Bryce is on " Three New Species of Callidina " (illustrated). 

 This last paper contains descriptions of C. nana, C. concinna, and C. decora. 

 The first is apparently recorded from Epping and St. Leonard's Forests, 

 and the last from Perthshire. With regard to concinna, however, though 

 a detailed description of the new species is given, the question of locality 

 is apparently considered to be of no importance, as all the information we 

 can get as to its occurrence is ' habitat, in ground or wall mosses.' We 

 have communicated with the author on this point, and he informs us that 

 concinna has been found near London, Dunmow, Watford, and the Tyrol. 



The Linc3lnshire Naturalists' Union Transactions for 1911, containing 

 pages 235-317, have just been published. There is a portrait and descrip- 

 tion of ' The Presidents {sic) of the L.N.U., the Rev. Alfred Thornley,' 

 ' a little gentleman with a big sweeping net, who wanted to know what 

 everybody was collecting, and to learn the scientific names of everything 

 from plants to the smallest insects.' This was at an early meeting of the 

 Union. There is also Dr. Wallace's Presidential Address, dealing largely with 

 Beetles ; the fifth instalment of the list of Lincolnshire Coleoptera — a most 

 carefully compiled account, by Messrs. Thornley and Wallace ; ' Additions 

 and corrections to the Check List of Lincolnshire Plants, 1909,' presumably 

 by the Rev. E. A. \^'oodruffe Peacock, though this is not stated ; and a 

 well-illustrated account of the larger forms of Lincolnshire Crustacea, by 

 Mr. A. Smith. Thirteen species are figured. There is a brief summary 

 of the field excursions, and the reports of the sectional officers, viz. ; 

 Geology, Mr. H. Preston ; Botany, Rev. E. A. W. Peacock ; Conchology, 

 Messrs. W. D. Roebuck and J. F. Musham ; Entomology, Mr. G. W. 

 Mason ; and Vertebrates, Rev. F. L. Blathwayt. We notice that ' boul- 

 ders,' ' cryptogams,' and ' fungi ' (on the first page) are still considered 

 to be ' sectional officers ' of the Union. The addition of the words ' Re- 

 corders for,' or ' Secretary for,' would put the matter right, and should 

 not be a difficult matter. 



Naturalist, 



