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NORTHERN NEWS. 



Tlie Hornsea L'rban Council is endeavouring to boirow /' 12,500 for the 

 purpose of defending the coast in front of the town. 



The members of the London Geological Association held their ' long 

 excursion ' to the Yorkshire Coast (northern section) from July 23rd to 28th. 



Copies of the photograph of the group of Yorkshire Naturalists taken at 

 F'laiiiborough (reproduced on a small scale on Plate XX.) can be obtained 

 from Mr. Joseph Duncum, photographer, Beverley, price one shilling each. 



We have tried OTie of the lantern slide cabinets made by Messrs. F^latters 

 and Garnett, of Manchester, and can thoroughly recommend them. To 

 those who use lantern slides these cabinets are invaluable, and are 

 astonishingly cheap. 



On August 24th, the bii-thday of William Wilberforce, Hull opens a new 

 museum — U'ilberforce House — the birthplace of the great emancipator. 

 The museum will be illustrative of the history of Hull, and will contain relics 

 of Wilberforce. Particulars of suitable exhibits will be gladly received by 

 the Curator. 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for June, 1906, 

 Messrs. C. Davies Sherborn and B. B. Woodward have a note ' On the 

 date of publication of the Natural History Portions of the " Encjxlopt^die 

 Methodique," ' based on sets of that jjublication recently found in Phila- 

 delphia, U.S.A., and at Hull! 



Messrs. A. Brown & Sons, Hull, ha\e just issued an attractive penny 

 Guide to Hull, one of the well-known ' Borough ' Guides. It contains 

 48 pages, and contains a map and twelve views from recent photographs. 

 It is edited by Mr. T. Sheppard, who, in an Introduction, describes the 

 changes that have recently taken place in the city. 



At the recent meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' I'nion at Flam- 

 borough, a lady was asked if she had seen the contortions of Old Dor. 

 Thinking the query referred to one of the ' dimmers,' she replied, ' Oh, }'es,' 

 is he going down again ! ' Another of the members had heard Filey Brig 

 described as the end of Cleveland Dyke — running out to sea ! ^ 



Mr. W. Booth, of Howsham, Lincolnshire, writes us that in his garden, 

 which is of chalky boulder clay, under the shade of a beech, three grasses 

 grow, B ramus sterilis, Poa trivial is, and Agrostis palusfris. They have all 

 been attacked, and more or less destroved, by a fungus, which ^Ir. H. C. 

 Hawley, of Tumby Lawn, Boston, says is Erysiplie graniinius. 



Mr. Elliot Stock has issued a cheap edition of Johnson and Wright's 

 ' Neolithic Man in North-East Surrey,' which was reviewed in these columns 

 for May 1904, p. 155. Tiie pi-esent work is in an attractive cover, and the 

 contents are, to all intents and purposes, the same as those of the previous 

 volume. Those who did not purchase the first volume on account of 

 the price, should not hesitate to take the reent iscsue. 



In the report of the Fishery Ofiicer to the meeting of the North-Eastern 

 Sea Fishers Committee at Scarborough recently, it is recorded that a 

 marked crab liberated at Runswick on September 2nd, 1905, was captured 

 in Cove Bay, Berwickshire, on the 28th of .May. The crab has travelled 

 northward 120 miles in 268 days. This was the greatest distance from the 

 place of deposit at which any of the marked crabs had been captured. 



We understand that a committee of the Moss Exchange Club is preparing 

 a Census Catalogue recording the distribution of Mosses in the British 

 Isles, and would be glad to hear from any Bryologisls who can render 

 assistance. Connnunications should be addressed to Professor T. B;irker, 

 Woodlea, Lightwood, Buxton. Help to imjjrove the lately published Census 

 Hepatic Catalogc will be welcomrd by W. Inghain, 5-, Haxby Road, York. 



Naturalist. 



