* * 191 
a 
- AN ANGLER'’S BASKET. 
An | Angler's Basket | Filled in Sunshine and Shade | through the 
space of forty years: | being a collection of | Stories, Quaint Sayings, and 
Remembrances ; | with a few | Angling Hints and Experiences | by | 
of ‘North-Country | Flies,’ ‘The Book of the Grayling,’ &e., &e. | 
Manchester: | Abel Heywood & Son, . - + | London: | Simpkin, 
Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., . . . | 1896. [Crown Svo, cloth, 
pp. ii—xiv. + 1-148. 
Tuus little book, a posthumous work, full of interest as it is, and 
characteristic in its manner and style, as well befits its late and ever 
to-belamented author, does not contain very much that concerns 
the naturalist in his character of student of the finned denizens of 
our fresh waters, but every now and then, here and there through 
the book, are numerous if sometimes casual notes of value as to the 
habits and customs of fish. ‘The time of year at which Zhymallus 
thymalius is at his best, the position which the plucky little game 
fish Salmo fario takes up in the streams, a slight sketch of sea- 
fishing at Filey with the results thereof, the local names of the 
Gwyniad of Ullswater, and numerous other bits diversify the 
witticisms, tales and short poems with which the book abounds. 
Altogether, the book is interesting, and we sincerely hope the results 
of its sale will yield a substantial return for the benefit of the 
widow of its author, a portrait of whom constitutes an appropriate 
frontispiece. 
ote NOTES AND NEWS. 
‘ati 
of ‘the life and scientific career oe ohn Whitehead, one of the most 
March ‘ Journal of Botany’ contains an ve notice by its editor 
i the late J 
H ort i er fs 
was born at Dukinfield in Cheshire in 1833, and died at Oldham on the 
The ‘ Annual Report and Proceedings of the Barrow Naturalists’ Field Club 
banshee: ‘ " , 
ahte and tific Association, vol. xi., 1895-6,’ has just been issued. 
its ch report’ of the General Committee they point out that the Society is losing 
this ces Field Cin i ming a Eierery Society. Rorewamned by 
papers " 
W. B aring, and of these "Sebmerged Peat 
. Kendall, C.E., and H Gaythorpe, on ‘ Submer ea 
: » i * "s called scientific. The 
only the botani t z,t vialis anw —- 
mong i "Amsinckia lycopsoides, a Californian r 
— oo Station; an tag Cé. plant on Walney ; 
of course, a mpletes the 21st year of the 
Society’s exist . The coming session complet 
the v ence. We hope this fact will stir u sufficient enthusiasm en 
i roceedi of the Society rather less mou 1 
reading. i P ings : 
Iceland, The literary character of Swift or Defoe, accounts of trips to Norway, 
history and Grindelwald have notbing to do with the work of a local natunss 
done, and ry in England, especially in a district where so ranch remains to De 
“one, and where, too, the Society is in a solvent condition 
