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F. B. Whitlock. Notts. 



Dunlins [ Tringa alpind] and Black Tern \_Hydrochelidon nigra] near 



Nottingham [particulars of occurrences given]. Nat., July 1886, p. 215. 



Johnson Wilkinson. Derbyshire. 



Notes on the Birds of the Derbyshire Peak [supplementary to F. B. Whitlock's 



list ; as to Falco peregrinus and Lagopm scoticus]. Nat., June 1886, p. 188. 



A. G. Wolley-Dod. Cheshire. 



Incubation under Difficulties [of Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) and of 



Landrails (Crex pratcnsis), at Edge Hall, Malpas]. Field, July 24th, 1886, p. 123. 



James Woolman. Cumberland. 



Late Swallows [{Hirinido rustica) at Wigton, 7th Nov., 1885]. Nat. 



Hist. Journ., Feb. 15th, 1886, x. JQ. 



F. A. Wrathall. York N.E. 



Ayton Bird Notes [for Feb. and March 1886: Turd us pilaris, T. iliacus, 



Chrysomitris spi/ius, Liuota rufesceti&t Motacilla melanope, Charadrius 



pluvialis, Corvus frugilegtis, Tardus torquatus, T. viscivorus, and T. musiais\ 



Nat. Hist. Journ., April 15th, 1886, x. 63. 



E. B. Wrigglesworth. Line. N. or S. 



Little Auk [ Mergulus a lie] in Lincolnshire [Nov. 1884]. Nat., Jan. 1885, p. 127. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Good service is being done by Mr. Osmund W. Jeffs, of Liverpool, in bringing 

 before the Local Scientific Societies' Committee of the British Association the 

 important question of organizing a uniform system of Geological Photography. 

 Photography as a means of preserving permanent record of geological sections of 

 a temporary character, such as those in railway cuttings, quarries, gravel-pits, etc., 

 which in the first case are turfed over, and in the others disappear altogether, is of 

 inestimable value, and it is much to be desired that means of registration and of 

 securing uniformity of action as proposed by Mr. Jeffs should be provided either 

 by the British Association or by the leading scientific societies of each county. 



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A striking instance of the value of the photographic camera to geological 

 science is to be noted in. connection with the Leeds Geological Association and its 

 visits some years ago to several sections in the Lower Coal Measures at Hunslet 

 and Newtown, near Leeds. The beds then viewed were those known as the 

 Beeston bed, the Crow bed, the Black bed, and the Better bed. These were all 

 exposed in huge excavations made for the purpose of brick-making, and as this 

 was being actively carried on at the time, the sections were undergoing change 

 and would be in time rendered inaccessible. Fortunately these sections were all 

 photographed by Mr. F. YV. Branson, F.C.S., and henceforward the Association 

 possesses a permanent record of these valuable sections. 



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Precisely the same thing occurred in the working of the Skipton and Ilkley 

 Railway, which exposed a number of most interesting sections, which, in due 

 time, were turfed over and lost to view. Before this was done, however, they had 

 been photographed by Messrs. Wilson and A. E. Nichols, and so the value of the 

 sections preserved to as full an extent as was practicable. 



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The same kind of work has without doubt been extensively done elsewhere in 

 the north, and in many instances by geologists not specially identified with 

 scientific societies. > ^ 0< 



If such gentlemen would communicate to the secretaries of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union, or, in other counties, to the principal working Society of their 

 county, proper record would be kept, and information given thereon at the 

 Newcastle Meeting of the British Association, when Mr. Jeffs will again bring 

 forward the subject— this time (we may hope) bringing about a completed scheme 

 of registration and recjrd. Information sent in (or this purpose should state the 

 date of the picture, name and address of photographer, and locality and compass- 

 bearings o f the sections, with such other details as it may be desirable to add. 

 June 1889. 



