NOTES AND NEWS. 
fea sr ion of Ancient Marbles in the rar eum at ea £ bag the subje 
f an in ing paper by Mr. E. L. Hicks in the 11th volum ofthe Journal of 
Hellenic ‘Studie, 1890, pp. 255-270, illustrated by a fine ast opkadtre pla 
> OnE 
The ad the nn made i 2 the re-labelling and re eeds Museum 
is dealt with in the 71st annual repor the Leetis Plsophia iar Literary 
Society, which was beets to the carat at the beginning of M 
eas tube- ss habits of 7: breelle seiebees are described, and illustrated 
a plate, in a paper by Mr. Arnold T. Watson, of Sheffield, in the Journal 
of goth snare ren Society es 1890, ‘hs which a reprint from the author 
lies before 
n the Ni ee Se the oe Society y (Botany —Nos. Bike ee Ap. 25, 1891) 
we notice a paper by our old friend, Mr. George M M.S., giving the 
* Life- ry ofa Siattete Preah: Water ‘Alga’ tDiathoion chrenbergianum 
Nag.), heieint by a fine plate 
EO EE 
The Leeds aE Ee oad Literary Society are losing t = services of . 
Mr. Richard Reynolds, F.I.C., F.C.S., as their nya ates Bes retary, after 
a lengthened period of office. It is Beg sfactory to to note, however, t hat the Society 
will still retain (and we hope for long) the benefit of his lengthened experience in 
his new capacity as a member of a co ae 
a 
A list of land and fresh-water mollusca of the Li i! Kae Nsiig's by 
ia ee remarks of a more eee ger acter, wae the t of the 
Presidential Address which the Rev vheha to mee Liveepool 
Naturalists’ Field Club hig: the 30th Tandon, ae "and which i is printed in full with 
the 31st Annual Repor 
tin OEE as 
Biographies of living —— are not often given. It is therefore —. 
to read in the ‘ Yorkshire County Magazine’ for May and June, an account of tl 
life and career of Mr. pect sel of Loft a accompanied by a peel 
His ability as sing ro ear and his attainments ome than | one — - 
eh 
We in the 31st annual report of the tarry Poth: 2 ee vat Club an 
instance ye the attainment of mun mepe ours by ralist. r. John 
Vi b Club 
of Bootle—an interesting parallel bs the Yorkshire case in which so well-known 
a geological investigator as Mr. James W. Davis at the Lessig time worthily fills 
the Mayoral chair of so important a senha as Halifax 
and 
‘A Simple Method of aking Ehenclogical Observations’ is the subject of 
a paper by Mr. Edward Mawley, F.R.Met.S., who is phenological recorder to 
i blishin: 
the R — Metccpsloaseat Society, and oe is desirous of establishing a networ 
of phenological observers throughout the ki om will g adly 
supply forms and “ set e may dressed at Rosebank, Ber 
hamsted, Herts., be disposed to take the necessary pains to 
may 
observe the very eer. inet mit! one mentioned in the schedule. 
—— oe 
e have received from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge copies 
oka some of their large Natural History Prints, published at a shilling each. They 
are well adapted for schools, and will serve to convey a su Seale per idea 
= bef , Codfish, 
of the animals sh : re us include prints of the Cc 
He — rtoises, the Colo fesse the Bark Beatle, ie Locust 
a e Cricket, _ Silkworm a aSSICR. lin 
