370 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
1891; ‘The Microscopic Structure of the Lake Country Rocks,” 
April zoth, 1893. 
Mr. Tate also contributed the following papers to the Vouksats 
Geological and Polytechnic Society’s Proceedings :—‘ The Glacial 
Deposits of the Bradford Basin,’ 1875 ; ‘The Source of the River 
Aire, 1879 ; ‘ Yorkshire Petrology : illustrated, Part I.,’ 1888; do., 
Part II., 1889; ‘The so-called Ingleton Granite,’ 1891: which 
last was also read at the meeting of thé British Association at Leeds. 
Mr. Tate was a good petrologist. He prepared his own sections. 
of rocks and minerals for microscopic examination, and described 
their special characteristics in his lectures and papers, as is evidenced 
in his articles on Yorkshire Petrology in 1888 and 188 
The end came on the 27th of April 1897, when, after but a 
brief illness, Mr. Tate succumbed to an affection of the heart, 
at his residence, Eldon Mount, Leeds. He was twice married, 
and leaves a widow, but no family, to mourn his untimely decease. 
= DD. HARDCASTLE. 
Ji ges eres 
Rhizotrogus tial by M. La 
ompson on record of the beetle LR. ehiectrepts wolititiatis in Yorkshi ire, I may 
mention poet took a spores — early on in the year hovering round a tree 
at Hackness.—RowLan D J. Fry Hon. Sec. Scarborough Field Naturalists’ 
Society, 8, ‘Atbenata eae Searboroigh roth November, 1897. 
NOTE—ORNITHOLOGY. 
_, Waxwing in Nidderdale.—On Wednesday, Nov. 1oth, by the river Nida 
side just below Darley Station, I detected a _ Wasowing Compe a “ rt). wig 
eeding on berries of Viburnum — and I hac nin 
it at a distance of within t yenty yards with a binocular ee ese a ater of oe 
hour. It is a bird about which there could not well be a mistake. —W. CLARKSON 
CLARKSON, Darley, Ripley, 23rd November, 1897. 
NO ne Oh gTaNy: 
Note = currence of Palzo: in Yor! 
though th Paleoxyris Brongt. sty sts rkshire coal- 
t unk from ie Yo 
field, oo hicteestos ero been exes snake sare. he di vanes nown om the of a considerable 
Of specimens by Mr. a Gelder, at the Openworks, Worsboroug r 
‘near Barnsley, is worthy of record. in 1 a chen Messrs. Dan Rylands, 
. 
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349 examples were — ¢ Bele comprised the followin cies :—7 alana ed 
eroides g Spec! 
ae Morris P-» carbon es Schimper, P. prendeliz Lesquereu 
IDSTON, Stirling. Sik November, 1 1897. 
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