NOTES AND NEWS. 
In the May number of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, p 
Mr. Alfred O. Walker, formerly of Chester, pe a te on Pherusa fucicola 1 pee 
a crustacean about which much confusion has a 
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Several a exotic genera and species of ad contained in the beige 
Museum Collection are described by Mr. W. nn ren, OM Ay, Baton, 
Annals and Mapitioe of Natural History for 
n the ‘ Benen hg Magazine’ haf March 1889, Mr. Mellard Reade pete o 
why granitic intrusions show so little evidence of contraction durin 
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e have received from Mr. R. Howse, Curator of the Museum of the Natural 
History Society at Newcastle-on-Tyne, a copy of his Guide to the Collections of 
- Local Fossils in the Museum, printed for the Society (62 pp. 8vo, Newcastle 1889). 
It consists essentially of very ah one lists from the strata of Northumberland 
and Durham, the Carboniferous Permian of course filling most of the work. 
The smaller fossils such as the e Stemi and foraminifera are not neglected ; 
synonymy and references are given when necessary ; and a stratigraphical notes 
are srl “0 their proper places. The catalogue seems to contain very few 
misprints for such a work, though in the section on p. oe we note a curiously 
abies wordy apparently - a type-setter’s anagram on ‘ limestone-post 
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bottom of the box, used for ero out the straw and refuse Witch gathers there 
arp the machine is used, was left open, and the rabbit fell or ju oes 9 out, and 
as subsequently killed Ny one of the other cats kept at the farm 
The Severn Valley ee yaa Club, under the direction of their 
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Secretary, the Rev. R. C. all, made a three dave visit to Yorkshire, from 
the oth to the 12th of June, “ey . the number of between twenty and thirty, made 
the Queen Hotel, Harrogate, their headquarters On Tuesday, the 9th, they 
visited Plumpton Rocks and Knaresborough under the guid: 
ortune an ed. Powell. The following day carriages c yed the party 
to Ripley, Ripon, Studley, and Fountains, under the guidance of the Rev. W. T- 
avis. S. Tute, an . Emmet, and after dinner Dr. Olliver read 
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tley. On that day the Rev. E. nd B. Slater conducted 
the party during the day; and in the evening the former gave a ~~ not ii 
general geological and physical features of the county, at same time 
angst a few interesting facts in regard to the mi yet “isbn of 
species of birds. Hea oe. a of thanks were passed to Prot Misll 
pe sl pede had salt es the several expeditions, or ‘ones, with cee arrangemen ents. 
On Friday, the 12th, the party returned to Shrews 
Naturalist, 
