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and the Hornblende-picrite of Little Knott, are all within easy reach 
of Keswick. Devitrified rhyolites and rhyolitic tuffs are not to be 
met with in Borrowdale. ese ancient acid lavas must be sought 
for near Coniston (Grizdale Tarn), or in Long Sleddale, where they 
occur as salmon or cream-tinted felstones, Bats associated with the 
Coniston limestone. 
The microscopical description and the chemical analyses of these 
rocks are reserved for a second paper. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
In the ‘British Naturalist’ for April, there is a capital portrait age short 
eae ¢ Miss Ormerod, ei well-known entomologist, and in the June number 
Mr. te ed : bheiaey author of A ‘get i a eS British species 6 ‘of the 
genus Sit lechia’ , etc., etc the post of honou r. Douglas is also one of 
the Editors of hy . Entomologist’ s ‘Monthly Miciainn” 
e have received a very interesting note on the yaya ten concerning the 
2 Hain worm BS gets aguaticus) in Ryedale, and if our readers will forward us 
notes of the same from as mers and as po notre scattered a as ; possible i in those 
Northern Sonata es of which we take cognizance, so as to the variants in the 
popular idea, we should like ay arrare and print a padrey Be ea or summary. 
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Mr. John W. Ellis, M.B., F.E.S., has collected into book-form a series of 
papers by himself which eu in the ‘ Naturalist’ aera, the years 1885 to 
1890, on ‘The Lepidopterous Fauna of La ae and Cheshire.’ As now 
‘published they form a handy and useful Bie a fe pages, epee eg ie 
records of some fifteen poet observe ort introduc on the 
geological formations and meteorological shoes whieh affect the caniwenon of 
Lepidoptera in ra counties deat with. 
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We have received a carefully npn! 5 and well printed little book, entitled 
‘The Flora of Reais under-Lyne and District.’ It is mainly the work of a Com- 
mittee appoint y the ea gag ay Eg Linnzean Botanical Society, which 
has fulfilled its duties admirably. In less than one hundred pages are given 
records of all Se Bog deg plants except Lichens, Fungi, and Algz. The Moss oer 
is a revision of a which was published in the ‘Naturalist’ in 1886, 
compiled by Mr. h ‘Whiteh head, of Oldham, and the Hepaticz have been ’ dealt 
with by Mr. G. A. Holt, of Manchester. 
We have never read more — books than a — Messrs. BI ack wood 
