4o8 Northern News. 



Mr. C. Fox-Strang'vvays has favoured us with a copy of his paper on 

 ' The Geology of North-East Yorkshire in relation to the water supply of the 

 district,' recently read to tiie British Association of Water-works Engineers. 



The Hon. John Abercromby favours us with a reprint of his paper on 

 ' The Ornament of the Reaker-class of Pottery,' which appears in volume 39 

 of the l'i-oceedins^s of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. N'umerous 

 examples of the ornament on British 'drinkintj vessels' from East Yorkshire, 

 Derbyshire, etc., are figured and described. 



The Journal of Concliology (vol. ir, No. 11) contains uir< '" 



interest to northern conchologists, "i.<iz. ' Observations on th' 

 MoUusca of the district around Silverdale, Lancashire.', 'iv 

 'An attempt to breed from a sinistral Helix pomatia, t-; 

 and 'West Lancashire Non-Marine Mollusca, Morecan ' 

 H. Beeston. 



In an article on Mesozoic Plants from Korea, by 

 English, in the Journal of the College of Science, Imj.''>;.u L'ii^ers:'} ot 

 Tokyo, Japan, a comparison is made between the Korean Meso/'jic I'lora 

 and that found in the rocks of the East of Yorkshire. Several specimens 

 are figured, amongst which is a new species, Adiantites sewardi, named 

 after a well-known worker in Yorkshire pala;obotany. 



The 1905 report of the Botanical Exchange Club is to hand, and is edited 

 by Mr. J. W. White. It contains much useful information in reference to the 

 plants of the northern counties, as well as of other districts. We hope, 

 however, that the request that ' Contributors should, however, try to send 

 fifteen to twenty examples of a plant, for they will find about thirty names 

 among those who expect a share,' will not result in rare species being 

 gathered wholesale for the purpose of exchange, otherwise the Botanical 

 Exchange Club will be doing more harm than good. 



In the proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field 

 Club, volume 26, the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge has a valuable paper ' On 

 New and Rare l-?ritish Arachnida.' This includes the following northern 

 countv records : — Drassiis piihescens, Thor., from Nottinghamshire ; Zora 

 nenioiutlis, Bl., from Hexham ; Agroeca celans, Bl., found at Hexham ; 

 Protadia patula, Sim., from Kirkby, Lancashire ; Cryphocca diversa, 

 Cambr. , found in Sherwood Forest, Notts ; Halinia heh'eola, Sim., near 

 Huddersfield ; Kpisiniis tnincafiis, Walck., from Hexham ; Oncsinda 

 miniitissiinuy Cambr., from Hexham and near Huddersfield ; Enoplognatha 

 thorarira, Hahn., Sherwood Forest ; Robcrtus iteglerfus, Cambr., Hudders- 

 field and Hexham; Raihyphuntcs sctiger^ F.O. P., Cambr., Penrith; 

 Tineticiis ami nits, Cambr., near Huddersfield ; Tnicfinis Jiriniis, sp. n. 

 (figured], from Hexham and near Huddersfield ; Tineticus n'val/s, sp. n. 

 [figured], from Hexham * ; Tnieliais reprohus Cambr., Kirkby, Lancashire ; 

 Tmetinis HiitJniuiitii, Cambr., Buxton, Derbyshire ; Siniiila faiisfa, 

 Cambr., Hexham ; Entelecara Thorellii\ Wester., Hexiiam ; Cncphalorofes 

 elegans, Cambr., from near Huddersfield ; Taphiocyba inscrta (?), L. Koch, 

 found at Hexham ; Baryphyuia pra/cnsis, Bl., from Hexham and Notting- 

 ham ; Widcriii fngax, Cambr.. Huddersfield and Sherwood l*'orest ; 

 Walrkciiacra nodosa, Cambi-., Hexham ; Cornicularia vigilax, Bl., Hexham ; 

 Singa pygnitea, Sund., Kirkby, Lancashire ; Xysfints ht'/asciatiis, C. L. 

 Koch, Hexham ; lyrosa agrirola, Thor., Kirkb\', Lancashire ; Lyrosa 

 herbigrada, Bl., Hexham ; Oligolophiis Hanscnii, KraejDl, Nottinghamshire ; 

 and Obisiinn mnrilimuiu. Leach, Port H!rin Bay, Isle of Man. [Mr. W. 

 Falconer informs us that the record marked *, though copied correctly from 

 Mr. Cambridge's papei", is inaccurate. Neithei" his nor Dr. Jackson's 

 exam|)les, on which the s]Decies is founded, came from Hexham as stated. 

 The former wci-e found beneath and around stones embeddetl in damp gfcass 

 on a certain portion of Slandedge, near Huddersfield, where they still occur. 

 The latter, on the verbal and written assurance of the Doctor, were tjiken 

 in .StafTordshirc. The cntrN' slumlci therefore read, 'from .Slaflfortlshire and 

 neai- I ludderstield. | 



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