56 NOTES AND NEWS, 
knife to enable me to reach them ; not one that I attempted to remove was less than 
six inches under the surface. I think this fact is rather in favour of their being 
when crocuses are in full bloom, < igh Beane then naturally attract atten- 
tion, to its probable rescue. Another fact must not be forgotten. 
. which the crocu 
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asses without one or two happening— ulbs ee ould commen ra 
floated away. Rats, nd, are very ee rtisl i pions bulbs. 
Considering the fact that our crocuses are found on seal — of the Trent, and 
also the wide area they nohanpe ar ied in the meadow evidence in favour 
of their being natives appears e to be much ele a sass the theory put 
artificial i uction. 
Do not other pel algae v sig ae aniairg S apecltagaiy hen the lapse of a few 
years, aie finally cease to flow ether? I may m n, for the benefit oe 
ee who do not know Not ti eal Shey “at our crocuses are og ae violet variety.— 
. B. WHITLOCK, Beeston 
nae ats AND NEWS. 
An important eo aati y the ome as ace of Natural ete in the 
pie ier College, W. A. Her dm — D.Se., F.L.S., appears in t ipl bea nal of 
soi Linnean Setictyy Zoology, "23, p. 558- 652, published Au 
P 2th, 
1891. It is entitled ‘A Revi sed Chnasit fication of the Tunicata, with Definitions of 
the roma S, Nee orders, Families, Sub-families, and Gener: and Analytical pee 
the Spe 
The i cre of the Geological Society has awarded the Murchison eae to 
Prof. A. H. Green, F.R.S., of Oxford, and the Ly ell Medal to Seago 
of Liverpool, 7 ving “dese rved well of as sei cience,”. Pr oe Gs een ‘ie 
some years at the Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds, and last year held the 
position of President of the Yo tkshire Naturalists’ U rag He formerly took a 
considerable part in see xeological 7 Oo Yo ae coat field. 
i known for his ‘ Geology of the County around Liverpool,’ 
which a second and po laticte geval was tena ished last y 
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The British Association schem a ie the, registration of ‘type speci anon 
of oval fos gies ee ‘fal results. An annotated list of the figure 
speci he York Museum by Mr. H. } latnauer, the Curator, was 
published las year = the annu xe report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
It is interesting as containing many of the original specimens figured by John 
i ( irs, such as NV 
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carboniferous es. similar, but rina Sk catalogue for the Woodwardian 
Museum at Cambridge, compiled by ar ne pep assistant curator, has just 
pag issued from the haere Pre any other special collections in 
this museum is the splendid series of vorkehie can fossils amassed by the late 
Mr, J. epi of Scarborough. 
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An n the * New Zealand Journal vil 0 ange Sse ‘tg 1891, page 31, 
further rises fears that we entertained when s and stoats were being 
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ton, a ke rivers, bebe: gre a doleful picture of the depopulation 
of the ground-birds of those r pobb while he ts out that the increase of the 
rabbits meets with a natural chek in the physical se aa of the country, 
+ as not to need the introduction of additional enem 
; Naturalist, 
