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NORTHERN NEWS. 
Messrs, Witherby and Co., have been appointed European agents for 
The Emu. 
Kingmore Common has been presented to the Carliske Museum Com- 
mittee by the Corporation, to be kept as a ‘ Nature Reserve.’ 
We notice an advertisement offering ‘ The King of all Ornithopteras, 
directly from the sources! ! Fresh ex-larva, set or in paper bags.’ 
A Yorkshire Museum is offering for sale ‘ Bird Pictures in water- 
colours from 1s. to 110.’ We have not seen them, but they ought to be 
good at that price. 
At the recent International Congress of Zoology at Monaco, Dr. F. A. 
Bather, of the British Museum, was elected President of the section dealing 
with Nomenclature. 
“Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey’s book, ‘ High Pheasants in Theory and 
Practice,’ is announced for publication. For eating purposes we prefer 
them in theory.’—Pumnch. 
The Burton-on-Trent Natural History Society has presented its 
collections to the town, and the Corporation has given the upper part 
of the old Police Station for a museum. 
Two ‘golden eagles’ are reported at Filey, and are alleged to have 
carried lambs away. If eagles at all, the birds were probably white- 
tailed eagles, and the lambs were doubtless rabbits ! 
“Dear Brothers and Sisters, Merry Christmas to you all. How have 
you spent Christmas Day ? I have begun very well,’ etc., is the type 
of letter quoted in ‘ Links with the Past,’ in a recent provinical natural 
history journal. 
We learn from The Standard of April 23rd that ‘Squamaria, an ex- 
ceedingly rare plant, has been discovered at Marholm, near Peterborough. 
Most of its life is spent grubbing about in the ground, and it never shows 
itself above the surface except for a week or two in the spring.’ 
Hull Museum Publications, No. 92, being the 43rd Quarterly Record of 
additions, contains a number of articles on Old Hull Shipping, illustrated 
by reproductions of photographs of oil paintings, etc., recently purchased. 
There are illustrations of model trawlers and nets, a ‘dug-out’ boat 
found in excavations at Hull, and notes on marine life, etc. It is sold by 
Messrs. A. Brown and Sons at one penny. 
The Palaeontographical Society’s Volume, for 1912, contains part IX. 
of the Monograph of British Graptolites, by Gertrude L. Elles and Ethel 
M. R. Wood; Part IV. of the Monograph on Cambrian Trilobites by P. 
Lake, and the concluding portion (Vol. 2., part 9) of the Cretaceous 
Lamellibvanchia of Britain, by H. Woods. The Palaontographical Society 
seems to be following the example of the Geological Society in the way in 
which its publications appear late. 
Phillippa C. Endaile contributes a valuable paper on ‘ The Scientific 
Results of the Salmon Scale Research at Manchester University,’ to the 
Memotrs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical 
Soctety, Vol, 57, part 1. In the same publication, Mr. D. M. C. Watson 
writes on ‘The Larger Coal-Measure Amphibia.’ Strangely enough, no 
locality is given for these interesting specimens, but we understand they 
are from Newsham Colliery, Northumberland, 
From the report of the Borough Librarian and Secretary to the Museum 
Committee, we learn that judging by the small demand for Natural History 
(sic) compared with other years the interest in Nature Study among 
Beverley children has considerably decreased. This is probably accounted 
for by another paragraph in the same report. ‘ The Museum year (sic) has 
been one of retrenchment . . . several loans and gifts have been 
reported . . . but these have scarcely been so valuable or numerous 
as in other years and practically no purchases have been made.’ 
Naturalist, 
