NOTES AND NEWS. 
The varied amount of ees eee the boys at the Friends’ School at York 
receive is simply marvellous, a e has only to read the annual reports of the 
i ty, hich th 
ally ‘ education’ in the true and etymological sense of the 
The naan Thitoy notes made are numerous and many of them valuable. 
poe, 
mongst fete bensiagty to the Fellowship of the Linnean Society, we are 
pleased to note th . Heathcote, the well-known conchologist 
f Preston, and se ae Alfred , M.A., of Sout Vv » and 
Prof J. W. Carr, M.A., of the University College, Nottingham, from whom 
t r —— caepeinge 0 the natural history of the county in which they 
resid as numbers of the entomological journals contain an appeal for 
‘Ibis’ for te of last ved Tt vapeieaied area ‘ad a birds’ nesting 
eecussion $0: the north of Nor 1893, m Mr. Henry J. Pearson, 
of Hraseccte, near "Nottin ngham, in cerns n as Mr. Edward 
Bidwell. “The paper : a joint one, and ee ves an interesting oeags of the ey 
and a list “ fee birds seen. The e accompanied by M Pearso’ 
M.B. a Nottinghamshire dba At the meeting of the British 
Ornithologis o "Clb, on the 8th March 1894, Mr. Pearson exhibited some of the 
birds taken on the 
Eleven numbers of the Malton Field Naturalists’ Society’s pits monthly, 
‘ Naturalist Notes ’ are ‘epee us, and contains a interesting and useful natural 
history items. We no tice for example that the Society has acqui ma the herbarium 
formed by the late Mr r W. Ree d not ari re plants found 
in the neigh Iton, meteorological tables, interesting antiquarian 
ons, proceedings of the Society, etc. e t hat Malton 
friends should carry their modesty so far as to allow such interesting and valuable 
items a 1 their magazine to appear w t si e 
n onymous articles is to a bibliograp larmi we would 
suggest that in future no article or even note should be allowed to appear unsi , 
and that in the index to the volume a full indication of authorship of all the articles 
already published shou given, to permi th rvations mai 
their full value. e Society, its valuable museum, and its $ magazi zine (the price of 
which is by the way a penny each number), have our best and sincerest wishes for 
their welfare. 
All naturalists will hear with or regret of the decease of Mr. Alex 
oodman More, which took place at Dublin on the 22nd of ach last, ‘at nthe 
comparatively early age of 64. Connesed with our ag hoon es by his 
ht rw 
upon the natural neers of which he was ce of the leadi oe authori ities: 
2 editor of ne e natu al history in Venables’ Guide to the Isle of Wight, pie 
or of Moor and Mists ‘ Cybele Hibernia, and for a score of angie assistant 
Dublin Museu ienc 
a post now y an re eat asatit Epa with Yorkshire 
De Ree FE. see es The contributions to natural history w biggrin oO 
the labours o step ore are too numerous to specify here, and we ahi "voiee 
a feeling ip the loss of so able and estimable a naturalist comnploasienitl 
a naturalist of Mig true stamp. igs 
Naturalist, 
