366 Northern News. 



^Teat advances that have been made during the last twenty-five 

 years in the domain af British g-lacial g"eolog"y. With these 

 advances we have, indeed, reason to be well satisfied. But the 

 necessity for further knowledjje is insistent ; and it is useless to 

 set about the solution of our intricate problem until we have all 

 the factors at command. Even then — 'Grant we have mastered 

 learning's crabbed text, Still there's the comment' — and, as 

 I have tried to show, the comment may raise more difficulties 

 than the text itself. 



Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., has just written a clever work, ' Majjfic and 

 Fetishism.' It is a useful introduction to the subject, and is published by 

 Messrs. Constable & Co., at one shilling-. 



Referring to our note on p. 200 in reference to the status of Thyamis 

 curta as a British insect, Mr. E. G. EUiman writes to the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine still claiming the insect as British. 



Under the heading ' My Country Diary," in a recent issue of Tlic Animal 

 World, a F'.R.H.S., M.B.O.U., etc., and author of many volumes, tells the 

 old story of the ' graminivorous ' student who threatened to eat Cuvier. 

 The story is prefaced by the words : ' What I reallj^ wanted to tell was a 

 good story in connection with Cuvier, who, I believe, was a French 

 N^aturalist.' ! ! 



In a paper on the F"auna of the Trimmingham Chalk, by R. M. Brydone 

 {Geological Magazine for July), several new species of Polyzoa are 

 described. In connection with these the author perpetuates the memory of 

 his various friends and fellow workers. Amongst the specific names added 

 to scientific literature in this paper are Griffithi, Trimminghamensis, 

 Britannica, Mundeslcicnsis, Canui, Rowei, Sherborni, Diblcyi, Jukes- 

 Brownei. Batheri, Woodsi, Pergensi, and Gregoryi. ! 



The recent number of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine contains 

 the following items of interest to northern naturalists : ' A new British 

 Arctiid ' from Carnforth ; 'A new species of Phora (P. papillata) and four 

 others new to the British list,' from Durham ; an Ant [Formicoxenus 

 nitidultis, Nyl) new to Northumberland and Durham ; in a paper on 

 ' Additions and Corrections to the British list of Hymenoptera,' Pompiliis 

 approximatus is recorded for E. Cumberland ; Epiinra angiistula, Er. , is 

 recorded for the Northumberland and Durham district ; Carpophiliis 

 sexpi/sti/latits P., restored to the British list (on the evidence of specimens 

 near Doncaster). 



A writer on ' East Coast Holiday Notes ' in the Yorkshire Post says that 

 ' Nature study is another form of recreation — and a very wholesome one — 

 which is becoming common on the coast. Botany is a favourite study, and 

 nearly as jjopular as geology. Any day you will find parties of fossil hunters 

 searching the cliffs about Flamborough, Hornsea, or \\'hitby. The knowing 

 ones return to their favourite kitchen middens annually for specimens of 

 Roman pottery ; tiie philosophers of the GeologicU Societies tramp many a 

 mile to find fresh exposures of the eailli's crust ; and experts are continually 

 investigating the Scandinavian Boulders that are strewn about our beach. 

 Philistines often ask what manner of men those are in their private work-a- 

 da\- lives, and they generally set them down as amiable enthusiasts. .At a 

 British Association conversazione at York, a young lady was heard to say 

 thai " Pa was an excellent geologist — for a gentleman," and now comes the 

 horrible tiiought th.it geology and gentUinen may ;ifter all have little in 

 common ' ! 



Naturalist, 



