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NORTHERN NEWS. 
Boxhill, one of the beauty spots near London, has been saved from the 
hands of the jerry-builder by an anonymous benefactor. 
From a newspaper report we learn that ‘ Daddy-long-legs’ ‘is one of 
the species Arachnida, which means that he is a spider. At one time he 
was Classed as an insect, but Lamarck separated him from them, and now 
he is catalogued along with scorpions and mites’ ! 
Professor T. McKenny Hughes describes a skull and antlers of un- 
usually large size (twelve and a half inches round the burr) from the 
estuary of the Gilpin, in the Tvansactions of the Cumberland and West- 
movland Antiquarian and Archeological Society, Vol. XIII., N.S., for 1913. 
We regret to note the announcement of the death of W. H. Sutcliffe, 
F.G.S., of Rochdale, who did some excellent work in Lancashire. He had 
much to do with the investigation of the fauna of the Middle Coal Measures. 
at Sparth, Rochdale, and two fossil plants and a fossil arachnid were 
named after him. 
In a notice of the Notes and Comments in The Naturalist for 
October, the writer of a well-known natural history column states that we 
‘approached the vast realm of psychology with plainly unaccustomed 
footsteps.’ This seems rather rough on Sir Oliver Lodge, seeing that we 
admittedly merely gave quotations from his address ! 
Mr. R. S. Bagnall, in reviewing a year’s field work (The Entomologist’s 
Record for September), states that in the Northumberland and Durham 
district, the year had been ‘an extraordinarily fruitful one, the additions to 
the local fauna now being between two and three hundred, and the additions 
to the British fauna being summarised as follows :—One order (Protura, 
Silvestri), four families (Acerentomide Silv., and Eosentomide Berlese, - 
in the Pyrotura, Brachypauropodide Hansen, in the Pauropodu, and 
Brachychaeteumidae (nov.), Verhoeff, in the Diplopoda, several genera, 
and about sixty species of which thirteen or fourteen were new to science.’ 
Through the kindness of Mr. Foster, of Bradford, there is on loan at the 
Cartwright Hall Museum, Bradford, at the present moment, a magnificent 
series of birds. These have been chiefly shot in the Orkneys and Shetlands 
by Mr. Foster, and as they have been mounted by one of our leading 
taxidermists they form a very attractive and educational exhibit. Two 
huge Ravens will attract attention; but their size has apparently been 
increased somewhat by the taxidermist, although the larger bird is a very 
fully adult male—judged by the thickness of his neck, and by the length 
of the feathers thereon. A large case containing a pair of Magpies with 
their nest and eggs in the original bough, is very artistic, and they are 
local specimens, viz., from Northrowram. 
We notice from the cover of the September number of the New Nature 
Study, the following very definite statement :—‘ Huddersfield Museum.— 
There is no truth, whatever, in the editorial paragraph which appeared in 
the September Naturalist referring to this museum.’ It is perhaps difficult 
to define ‘ truth,’ but we have a circular before us headed * To Naturalists’ 
Societies, Mutuals, Art Clubs, etc.’ One of the paragraphs reads ‘ The 
museum is open daily and refreshments may be obtained. Societies 
would do well to arrange trips to this museum. It is not a place of amuse- 
ment, but an educational institution.’ This is practically what was stated 
in our three line ‘ editorial’ in September. The circular is signed ‘S. L. 
Mosley, Curator,’ and it was sent to us by Mr. Mosley himself. However, 
as Mr. Mosley states that there is no truth whatever in the paragraph 
which we quoted, we must assume that his museum is not open daily, 
that there are no refreshments, that societies had better keep away, as the 
place is not an educational institution but a place of amusement. We 
have now given Mr. Mosley’s two descriptions of his own place, and we 
must leave our readers to judge for themselves which is correct. 
Naturalist, 
