200 NOTES AND NEWS. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
The latest example of the “8 bs the Great Auk sold by auction, is to find 
a rors, _— in the North, ing been acquired by Sir Va iene Py a 
Crewe f Calke Ab bey, Dae for the diiprecedented sum of £315, 
sdvence 2 f £30 upon any previous price paid. 
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he recipients of medals and medal- finds at the ares ata & Meeting 
of Pe Geological Society of London include Mr. Aubrey Strahan, M.A., F.G.S., 
Mr. W. Talbot Aveline, F.G.S., Mr. ge oe neh oe F.G.S., and Mr. 
— Hill, F.G.S., all of whom have don und. a alu ite eset 
n geo) rpg in the North of ow and the obit seas RL t includes ack nam 
those of James W. Davis, G. W. Shrubsole, Edward Charles spe Jo ohn Sueaser, 
and John Plant, all of cashes are much missed in our Northern a 
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The death of Mr. Caius Cassius Hanson, on the 1oth February last, at West 
Vale, near Halifax, in his 71st year, removes one of the worthiest of the band of 
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re in later years connected vith el Ellan oo coe Naturalists’ Society, 
Findeed it were nie one and the same society under a rang title. He wasa 
hoe er by ee ae ag politics, bron ded and sincere in his 
religion, something of an antiquary, a minor poet, sigs a keen ornithologist, as 
well as a fair botanist, and interested in every phase of agp ange he and a 
will ce be sige oeh ase by all who had the good fortune to know him, Som 
his notes will be found in various numbers of this ourw and of the 
* Yorkshire Naturalist Recorder’ 
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We are glad to see — attention Ca paid .to the Marine Fauna of the 
a an. Mr. Thomas Scott, F.L.S., of Edinburgh, = is doing Lp 
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ing Crustacea from the Dogger Bank collected et Emest W. 
Mr. Scott is so good an authority on Crustacea that anything that he writes is 
worthy of attention and op study. The cllections “descabed were made at 
the South-West end of og ogger rpg in April 1892, from on board the SS. 
esolute,’ while carryin a a series of fishery investigations for the Marine 
Biological ae sat the locality is about 70 or miles E. by N. of the 
Spurn, Thre Decapods, > al pen eS s, four Cumaceans, 22 Amphipods, 
and five C f them new to the English Coasts. 
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We have received from the icine (Me. A. T. K. Fretwell, Hull) a 
pommrag avleng aie ‘Illustrated Guide to nsea and surrounding District,’ in 
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the 16 pages of natural history. Mr. J. F. Robinson —o of the Flora in pene 
including the usually little noticed seaweeds and other por om, neg plants. 
£ f the better plants, witha hint that e ‘ardent botanist 
— will pargt sg to be sparing in the removal of bervipindl 
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Mollusca, which re dencts in a most interesting manner, concen trating his 
— mainly upon the very ~~ and varied fauna of the Mere, in itself a u he 
feature in Yorkshire scenery. The scientific chapter is Secenghit | to an end 
ments of the sea u upon t the land, which ravages are considered not to be by any 
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Rae, ARNE TES 
Naturalist, 
