212 Northern News. 
He was a keen sportsman, and among his more substantial 
publications are ‘ Forays among Salmon and Deer,’ ‘ Letters 
from the Highlands,’ ‘Fin, Fur, and Feather,’ and ‘ Stray 
Leaves on Travel, Sport, and Animals.’ Sometimes he used 
the pen-name of ‘ J. Conway.’ He had also some reputation 
as a deer stalker, and as a disciple of Izaac Walton. He 
published the results of some curious experiments he made in 
hybridism. 
Keenly interested in antiquarian matters, he did much, in 
the way of newspaper articles, addresses, and books, to popu- 
larize the study of archeology i in its various branches, though 
never particularly specializing in. any direction. In many 
respects he took up a similar position in Lincolnshire to what 
the late Rev. E. Maule Cole occupied in East Yorkshire. 
His newspaper work was enormous, and many of his 
articles were reprinted later in book form. His chief contri- 
butions in this direction are ‘A History of Horncastle,’ 
“Records of Woodall Spa and Neighbourhood,’ ‘ Parishes 
Round Horncastle,’ “The Ayscoughs,’ etc. 
Though eighty-two years of age, his long letters showed 
that his mind was ever active. He was distinctly of the old 
school of ‘ all-round naturalists, and his death has severed 
another of the few remaining links between the ‘ know some- 
thing of everything’ naturalist, and the more modern specialist 
who prefers to try to know ‘ everything of something.’ 
Readers of The Naturalist will join the present writer in 
regretting that the type of man referred to in these notes 
seems to be surely disappearing. 
We are indebted to the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union for 
the loan of the accompanying block. Bale 
——— So 
At a recent meeting of the London Geological Society a paper on ‘ The 
variation of Planorbis multiformis,’ by Dr. G. Hickling, was read by Mr. 
D. M. Watson. In -the discussion Mr. A. S. Kennard opined that the 
species in question was not a Planorbis. Mr. Watson was ready to agree 
that the forms described did not belong to the genus Planorbis, ‘ but the 
name of the genus did not affect the point at issue.’ 
A further valuable gift has just been made to the Hull Municipal 
Museums Committee by C. Pickering, Esq., J.P., the donor of the new 
Museum of Fisheries and Shipping at the Pickering Park. It was recently 
represented to him that the new museum was already crowded with exhibits 
and he has kindly presented a strip of land stretching fram the Hessle 
Road to the Pickering Park, and adjoining the cick museum, for the 
purpose of extension. 
The recently-formed Selby Scientific Society held a Conversazione at 
the Museum, Selby, on 17th April, when the President of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ "Union, Mr. H, W ager, F.R.S., gave an address on ‘ How 
Plants Perceive the Light.’ Mr. W. ‘, Cheesman, J.P., is the first President 
of the Selby Society, and Mr. Jo F. eee is the Hon. Secretary. It is 
twenty years since the previous Selby Scientific Society existed, and as 
the new one has already a membership of nearly 100, its success is 
assured. 
Naturalist, 
