232 NOTES AND NEWS. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
innzeus Greening, of Warrington, editor of our contemporary, ‘The 
British Naturalist,’ was some time ago elected F.L.S. 
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H. QO. Forbes has been es Bi succeed the late Mr. Moore as Chief 
ee of the Public Museum at Live 
R. * Min, the Librarian of the i Geogra ociety, into the depths 
“3 the nglish ‘Lakes, he finished this bathymetrical survey during 
— of agra h oh ee systematic soundi result is not 
eth dance with t 
highest of the English | iakes, its ne being 694 feet above sea-level, is also the 
pest. For it is not so by any means, being only a feet in the deepest part. 
poo 
An_ excell ers paper on ‘The Molluscan Fauna of the Bowdon ig wis ae 
in an 
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a th e yior hire plain, and has natural bounder ries, Marley | to the North. the 
watershed af Bollin and Weaver to ‘the Sou 
et 
Lord Armstrong has a good opportunity sie adding to the many claims he has 
on the ssi of his cong en n by a careful and strict preservation of the 
birds 
chase. e in P> 
general satisfaction if the two owners were to combine for the pu 
affording an everlasting Sadun, cueolaned by the gunner or the egger, to the 
sea-birds whose nesting-places add so great a charm to the islands. 
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e have received the Third Annual foe sig of the ‘eageonsd for the Protection 
of Birds which was founded in hoa y 1889, the report extending from 
October Ist, 1892, | re the end of Dec bees sient and also its a No. 12, in 
which Mr. W. H. Hudson treats of pilot hing, and Mr. W. L. Woodroffe 
describes the great deairecton of Larks, and Goldfinches along our 
uthern and s. The s e main a ladies’ society, 
ess of Portland being President, and Mrs. F. E. of Hillcrest, 
umber of branches in various towns. The report deals with various 
phases of the subject, and the society will receive, as it ought to do, the sympathy 
—active we begs rather than passive—of all who have a true interest in our 
bird-populatio 
report of the ig de sa of the Lancashire Sea Fisheries 1S 
aces an interesting note by Pro r Herdman, who suggests that Port Erin, 
sl , isa suitable place for base culture. The sea-water there is pure, 
coast roc y undance of seaweeds, bsters already live in the 
neighbourhood, showing that the ground and other conditions suitable and 
ensuri r of the parent animals. e pr f the want of man: 
more native-gro it i ed that some hundreds of thousands are 
po. ly from Norway and from France, and that lobster hatcheries have 
lately been established in Newfoundland, which hatch ne five hundred eS — 
young lobsters annually so successfully that Somat is only a loss of about 11 Per 
cent., e promoters of these hatcheries are said to be thinking of sleciek their 
lobsters on the English markets. 
Naturalist, . 
