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dead leaves. This task must, however, be left to the next 
coleopterist who visits Bishopdale, and the only apology for 
the above list of captures, meagre as it is, must be that it 
represents the results of a quite average two days’ July 
collecting in one of the perhaps less-known dales of Yorkshire. 
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The Annual Report of Proceedings under the Salmon and Freshwater 
Fisheries Acts, etc., ete., for the year 1912, has recently been issued by 
the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. London: Wyman and Sons, 94d. 
It contains 72 pages and a map, with much information of service to 
anglers and naturalists. 
Volume XXIV., Part 5, of the Proceedings of the Geologist’s Associa- 
tion contains the Presidential Address of Dr. John W. Evans, on ‘ The 
Wearing Down of Rocks.’ He deals with effects of variations in tem- 
perature, frost action, the mechanical action of running water, and the 
eroding action of ice, the last being by far the largest section of the 
address. 
In Vol. 6, Part 6, of Series 2, of the Annual Report and Proceedings 
of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club we notice papers on ‘ The Botanists of 
the North of Ireland,’ by Canon Lett; ‘Some Geological Features of 
Scotland and their relation to North of Ireland,’ by Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse ; 
‘ The Gorges of the Tarn,’ by Mr. A. M’I. Cleland, and ‘ Geological Obser- 
vations in North East Londonderry,”’ by Mr. J. R. Kilroe. 
The Huddersfield Naturalist and Photographie Society, Annual Report 
’ and Balance Sheet, 1912-1913 (24 pp., 6d.) shows a good balance in hand, 
Messrs. C. Mosley, A. C. Ellis, J. H. Carter, E. Fisher, W. E. L. Wattam, 
J. W. H. Johnson, and Dr. Woodhead are the contributors. There is 
an illustrated obituary notice of the late H. G: Brierley, and Mr. Johnson 
contributes an illustrated account of ‘ The Sewage Fly,’ with figures of 
Psychoda sexpunctata and P. phalenoides. 
The Annual Report for 1912 of the Scarborough Philosophical and 
Archeological Society, contains the report of the Scarborough Field 
Naturalists’ Society. The work of the latter is divided into sections, 
the year’s work in each being recorded by Messrs. J. G. Brewin, W. J. 
Clarke, A. Harman, A. 5. Tetley, E. C. Horrell, D. W. Bevan, E. B. Cramp, 
E. A. Wallis, J. Irving, A. I. Burnley, F. Bentham, L. Wright, A. E, Peck 
and T. B. Roe. The reports are very creditable. 
Among the papers in the Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester 
Literary and Philosophical Society, Vo. LVII., Part 2, we notice ‘ The 
Specification of the Elements of Stress,’ by R. F. Gwyther; ‘ Black 
Pottery from the Gold Coast and Ashanti,’ by W. Burton; ‘ A Criticism 
of Some Modern Tendencies in Prehistoric Anthropology ’ (a very reason- 
able appeal for moderation), by the late W. H. Sutcliffe; ‘ The Structure 
and Life-History of Leptosphervia Lemanee,’ by W. B. Brierley, and 
“On Some Abnormal Specimens of Dictyota dichotomu,’ by H. S. Holden, 
The Transactions of the Yorkshire Numismatic Socitey (Vol. I., pt. 3. 
pp. 27-85. Hull: A. Brown and Sons, Is.). contains a list of the Yorkshire 
Seventeenth Century Tokens (illustrated) ; the Kingston Mint; the Coins 
of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem at Malta ; an Unpublished Brad- 
ford token ; Roman coins found near Leeds; the Hornsea token; and notes 
on a recent find of coins in the River Hull. The contributors are Messrs, 
H. B. Earle Fox, G. L. Shackles, T. Pickersgill, and the editor, Mr. T. 
Sheppard. There are many illustrations. The membership of the society 
has more than doubled during the year. 
Naturalist, 
