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Northern News. 



Tlu- following' are places and dates for the excursions of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union durinjf tlie coming- session : — 



May iJth to i4tii — Ingleton. 



Jime 2nd to 4th (Whit week-end) — Flaniboroug'h. 



June 30th, Saturday l""ewston, foi- Washburn \"alley. 



July 12th, Thursday — Askern. 



August 18th to 20th— Guisborough. 



September 22nd to 26th — F'ungus Forav at Farnle\- Tvas, near 

 "ihiddersfield. 

 We learn from the Huddcrsjicld Chronicle that the degree of I'h.D. lias 

 been conferred on Mr. T. W. Woodhead, F.L.S., lecturer in biology at the 

 Technical College, Huddersfield, by the University of Zurich, Switzerland, 

 where Mr. Woodhead has been working during the last few months in 

 collaboration with Professor C. Schroter, the eminent authority on the 

 Alpine flora. It will interest Dr. Woodhead's friends to know that this well- 

 merited honour has been bestowed upon him for a i)aper on the ' Ecology 

 of woodland plants in the neighbourhood of Hudderstield.' 



A meeting of the Excursion Sub-Committee of the British .Association 

 was held at York on the 20th March, Dr. Tempest Anderson presiding. .A. 

 number of places suitable for visits by the members of the Association was 

 chosen. In connection with these, however, the early date of the .Association 

 was once more found to be inconvenient. We can imagine, for example, 

 what the nature of a visit to Scarborough would be on .August Hank Holiday 

 or the Saturdav preceding. There are also other attractions in the follow- 

 ing few davs, which will probably interfere with the most successful 

 arrangements being made for the comfort of the \isitors to the meetings of 

 the British .Vssociation. It is sincerely to be hoped that the experiment of 

 holding the meeting of the .Association in the first week in .\ugust will not 

 be repeated. 



A conference was held at the Hotel Windsor, Westminster, on the 6tli 

 I'"ebruar\-, for the purpose of considering the question of national defence 

 against "the erosion of the sea. The following resolution was carried : 

 ' That whereas it is a settled principle of the common and statute law that 

 the responsibilitv of the sea defence works rests ]>rimariiy on the nation at 

 large, this representative meeting is of opinion that steps should be taken to 

 obtain some assistance from the Imperial Exchequer towards the ever- 

 increasing burden of expense which local authorities on the seaboard are 

 compelled to bear owing- to the constant erosion by the sea ; and that with a 

 view to carrying out this object a petition be presented to the King in 

 Council praying that right may be done.' A committee was appointed to 

 formulate a scheme and submit it at a future meeting. 



By the courtesy of the editor of the Yorkshire Weekly Post, we Jire able to 

 give our readers a drawing of tlie larg-e mammoth tooth found at Withernsea, 



and described in these colunnis for November last (j). 34S). 

 is loj inches in length, and weighs gjlbs. 



The tooth figureil 



Naturalist, 



