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31 species, and to which is appended a list of about half-a-dozen 
species of parasites which have been taken off local mammals. 
Three excellent papers by Mr. W. Shone, F.G.S., deal with 
‘Subterranean Erosion, and some of its Effects,’ ‘The Cause of 
Crateriform Sand Dunes and Cwms,’ and ‘ A Note on the Submerged 
Forest at Rhyl,’ all dealing with problems of physical geology by the 
light of local evidence. ‘The Spring and Summer of 1893 at 
Colwyn Bay’ is the title of a gossipy semi-meteorological, semi- 
Mr. A. a A 
meteorological paper is by the Rev. J. C. Mitchell, B.D., F.R.A.S., 
who gives tables and notes of ‘The Weather at Chester during the 
first ten (why not twelve ?) months of 1893.’ This is followed by a 
brief series of ‘Zoological Observations during the Spring and 
Summer of 1893,’ by Mr. R. Newstead, F.E.S., which, somewhat of 
a scrappy nature, gives notes made during the daily walk to and fro 
between Chester and Saltney. The concluding paper is’ by the 
President of the Society, Mr. W. Henry Dobie, M.B., on the ‘ Birds 
of West Cheshire, Denbighshire, and Flintshire,’ but although last it 
is not least, either in bulk or in value. We omit further reference to 
it here, as we have been favoured with an author’s reprint, and hope 
in a forthcoming number to give a notice of it commensurate with 
its value and importance. We are pleased to know that the Chester 
Society is in a flourishing and healthy condition, numbering at 
present over six hundred members, amongst whom are included 4 
number of the keenest and most successful investigators of natural 
phenomena that any Society with similar aims can boast of, and in 
conclusion we have not only to congratulate the Chester Society 0D 
the excellent results it can show, but also in the strongest possible 
manner to recommend all local societies in the North of England to 
take a leaf from the Chester book, and confine their publications 
strictly to matters concerning their own districts, leaving other dis- 
tricts to their own investigators, and all generalities to the host of 
journals intended for their reception. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
‘he Linnean Society have recently paid Mr. Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc., of 
Owens College, Manchester, the compliment of electing him an ‘Associate 0 of their 
body. 
in FOCI, etitteneninn 
Dr. H. J. Johnstone-Lavis, of Naples and potas fend occupies the chair 
of Vuleanology in the Neapolitan city, has an addres: ‘The Science of 
Vulcanology’ printed in Nature for May ree Sg vk. 
3K. 
Mr. John Stears describes the Humber —_— as altering. e Goole a 
Antwerp steamers cannot now use the channel between Ferriby Sluice and Reid’ 
Island, which was once the deepest part o vy the estuary, but vessels have to £° 
north of it now. 
Naturalist, 
