82 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
NOTE—MAMMALIA. 
at Merenald, Isle of Man.—A s agogpcveen rare species of ee 
n the Maughold beach, in a little bay south of rugged 
ug 
points. I hope something may be e to aay Me e the skeleton.—Wm. SPI 
M.A., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., Ramsey, ri 14th, 1895. 
NOTE—BOTANY. 
Bekansgill : A Place-Name of Botanical Derivation.—The ancient name 
of ire Meret in bbe Furness Abbey gre tee was Bekansghyll, on account of 
the ep . . 
the 
Turner’s Herbal. It seems a pity that good work like ne papers shoul 
buried—to most of us—in a country newspaper. wool many botanists are ee 
to even hear of them is idle to speculate. How ape ‘H Be 
coming caer ye dulcamara, and takes the pie (in MS. = back to 1412 at 
Furness Abbey. —LisTER PrTry, Ulverston, February 19th, 1895. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Hull gg Society has age a new sd aia in publishing its 
Transactions, the first of which is now before us, 4 afior ds pleasing 
evidence of activity in that part of Yorkshire which th ken for 
its study. In the Report of the East R ulder Comittee we note that 
systematic work secured by dividing the district nance map 
oe reas of four oe miles each, whi to the several 
- The remaining pages are devoted to reports of excursions and abstracts 
es paved rs read before the Soci ociety. One of the latter, by Mr. W. Stevenson on 
the old buried oak- forest of Hull, is illustrated by a plate which serves as 
frontispiece to the vo 
Naturalist, 
