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connection whatever with nautical [!] matters, it generally 
becomes unconsciously funny. An instance of this was seen 
in yesterday’s issue. Under the heading, “ Stranded Shrimps,”’ 
an account was given of the supposed landing on the beach 
at Redcar, within the high-water mark, of “ fifteen to sixteen 
loads’ of shrimps. Apparently, our contemporary has never 
heard of the prevalence of “ sea-lice’’ in the ocean. It is not 
a delectable subject, but the idea of sea-lice being mistaken 
for. shrimps has immensely tickled the “old salts’? on the 
East Cleveland coast. It is to be hoped that no one will now 
regard these unwelcome arrivals as shrimps, as the consequences 
might be far from pleasant.’ We do not at all wish to side 
with what is apparently a political matter, but ‘our Radical 
contemporary ’ is certainly much nearer the mark in calling 
these organisms ‘shrimps’ than is the constant North Star, 
which calls them lice, no matter what the ‘ old salts’ say. 
GIFT OF BULLTERFLIES, TO LEEDS UNIVERSITY. 
The University of Leeds has recently received a valuable 
addition to its scientific collections in the presentation by 
Mrs. A. H. Clarke of the collection of Continental and Exotic 
Macro-lepidoptera made by her late husband, who was one of 
the senior Fellows of the Entomological Society, and, up to 
a few years of his death in rg11, a frequent contributor to 
entomological journals. This part of the collection, containing 
exotic butterflies, consists of nearly six thousand specimens 
from all parts of the world, and is particularly valuable as a 
reference collection, not merely from the number and careful 
selection of the forms represented but from the perfect con- 
dition and beauty of the specimens themselves. The donation 
enriches the entomological resources of the University by over 
twelve thousand specimens all carefully set, arranged, and 
labelled, and to this Mrs. Clarke has added her husband’s 
working library of entomological literature, itself a present of 
great value and utility. The University authorities wish it 
to be known, in conformity with Mrs. Clarke’s desires, that 
after the work of arranging and cataloguing has been concluded, 
the collections will be available for reference by entomologists 
generally upon application to the Professor of Zoology at the 
University. 
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“The Destruction and Dispersal of Weed Seeds by Birds,’ is the title 
of a paper by Mr. W. E. Collinge, in The Journal of the Board of Agr2- 
culture for April. 
Dr. D. Woolacott gives a useful summary of present knowledge of the 
Geology of North-East Durham and South-East Northumberland in the 
Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, Vol. XXIV., Part 2; and in the 
same publication he reports on the Association’s Excursion to Sunder- 
land and Tynemouth in May, 1912. 
1913 July r. 
