Field Notes. 291 



It was also recommended that the following- be placed on 

 the list of Associated Societies : — 



Bakewell Naturalists' Club. Liverpool Microscopical Society. 



Barrow Naturalists' Field Club Liverpool Science Students' Asso 



and Literary and Scientific ciation. 



Association. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Literary 



Bradford Natural History and and Philosophical Society. 



Microscopical Society. Preston Scientific Society. 



Grimsby and District Antiqua- Southport Society of Natural 



rian and Naturalists' Society. Scieoce. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Ento- Warrington Field Club. 



mological Society. 



MR. W. EAGLE CLARKE. 

 The President of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Mr. 

 W. Eag-le Clarke, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., has been appointed Keeper 

 of the Natural History Collections of the Royal Scottish Museum, 

 Edinburgh, in place of Dr. R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., who has 

 had the appointment since 1873. Mr. Eagle Clarke, first as 

 assistant, and afterwards as assistant keeper, has been an 

 officer in the Natural History Department of this museum for 

 the past eighteen years. Mr. Clarke is a native of Leeds, and 

 was at one time editor of the ' Naturalist.' All northern natu- 

 ralists will join with us in congratulating Mr. Clarke on his 

 recent appointment, and in the hope that he may be successful 

 in his new sphere. 



GEOLOGY. 



Oxyrhina mantelli in the Lincolnshire Chalk. — I have 

 recently obtained a fish tooth from the large Barton Chalk 

 Quarry on the south Humber shore. It occurred towards the 

 base of the Middle Chalk, about three feet above the Belemnitella 

 plena zone. Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., kindly identifies 

 it as Oxyrhina mantelli^ which does not appear to have been 

 previously recorded in the Middle Chalk of Lincolnshire or 

 Yorkshire. The specimen can be seen in the geological gallery 

 at the Hull Museum. — H. C. Drake, Hull, August ist, igo6. 



— : o : — 

 FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Coronilla Van'a at Elland. — During the ramble of the 

 Lindley Naturalist and Photographic Society to Tag Lock, 

 Elland, on the 14th Jul)' last, this pretty alien vetch was found 

 growing on a waste heap near the Lock by Mr. J. Ackroyd. — 

 W. E. L. Wattam, Newsome. 



igo6 September i. 



