68 NOTES AND NEWS. 
the small insects as do the Warblers. On the 30th of September 
I saw a very ragged-looking Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) which 
was not over its moult. 
Amongst the Gulls and Terns, I noticed Kittiwakes (essa 
tridactyla), Common Gulls (Zarus canus) and Black-headed 
Gulls (Z. ridibundus), and the Common Tern (Sterna fluviatilis) 
and ages Tem (Aydrochelidon nigra), both in spring and 
autum 
he Pade stragglers from the coast of any interest were a 
Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus hyperboreus), which was obtained 
near Shelford about October 26th, and a Little Auk (M/ergulus 
alle) killed on the Trent in Long Eaton parish, November roth. 
It was a beautiful adult example. I saw a Grey Plover 
(Sguatarola helvetica) on November 18th. It is perhaps worth 
mentioning that there had been nothing in the nature of a gale 
to bring the Auk inland. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
A moiety of the balance of the Lyell Fund has been awarded to Mr. Perc 
Kendall, of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, in recognition of his ivoheia a in 
glacial geolo ogy. 
cok 
The Council of _ oo Society has — the Lyell Medal for this 
year to the Rev. J. F. Blake, who is well known to Yorkshire geologists for his 
work on se Jurassic rocks. Mr. Blake has left this country to take an appoint- 
ment in Indi 
poe 
e note that at the 62nd Annual y te of the ri 6s ie ac bes 
Pia held 16th Lees 1895, | = sar ae Fowler, M.A 
again elected as one o e Secre Right t Hon. Lord Waltinghasd 
LinD:, ¥. RS. 5 petal Vice- Ppestdicat gas he Session 1895-6. 
poo 
The Isle of Man will enjoy the unique advantage of two ee ae 
er ee coulge Ag soil Apne: ie ‘the Manx oe to Prof. Re 
one inch to the mile. It will be geben, when complete, as a single large sheet 
n two editions, ‘ drift’ and ‘solid 
a 
Following an experiment instituted by him last year, Mr. Henry Crowther, 
F.R.M.S., curator of the Leeds Museum, gave, during the month of January, four 
t fly,’ ‘ Injurious jenlieg an ine at they 
procured.’ Special lantern read se sisted were prepared to illustrate the 
lectures, ~ there is every evidence, from the spirit of inquiry aroused, that a? 
a more popular those eoients of the Leeds Museum which ‘they d 
Naturalist, 
