338 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
variation ; to some botanists a sweet-pea blossom is grander than the 
dress of any bir 
Such iain as these do not, however, mar the book; it is full of 
careful work, credit being given to those who have helped the author 
and to those writers from whom he quotes. The student is to be 
_ congratulated on having a handy scientific and accurate book on the 
Life and Functions of Birds. 
Henry CROWTHER, F.R.M.S. 
Tue Museum, LEEps, Wov. 20th, 1895. 
NOTE—BOTANY. 
—lIn reference to the note in Op oni number, p. 307, 
e fir 
your ers hav with i any time in this district.—F. CROSLAND, 
Westentk : Street, Huddersfield, ae 8th, 1895. 
NOTE—DIPTERA. 
Occurrence of a Rare Dipteron at Silverdale.—The Di ae are so little 
known or studied by British entomologists that the notice ay the capture of a rare 
fly is not likely to excite much interest, though I am glad to find ra rather more 
id to i fore. 
in the lish Jan nguage, for with the exception of a few papers upon 
separate fainitlen ublished in different periodical , there is no work upon British 
Diptera besid pag tn t by the late aft hes cis Walker in the ‘ Insecta Britannica,’ 
which is very slnipaeteet t and out of d 9 t present, a Dipterist who wishes to 
; he 
of Diptera both British and Foreign ; he has already published a os sa feoors ist 
of s pepe I hope he will soon supplement t this by a manual or | text: book. 
ar species that I I found 
a a male of this fly in August last at Silverdale, and captu a pation more in 
the sa gr gg vr twenty years ago. ve never seen it in any other 
locali ey; ee r. Verrall informs me that he never found it.—R. H. MEADE, 
Bradford, hes te, silos, 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Many friends of the late Mr. Alexander Goodman More are wishful to see 4 
short memoir of him published. To ‘which end it te hoped that any one having 
letters or papers of interest will le m for perusal and selection to his sister, 
Miss More, 74, Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin. 
now denwieg to its close in the death of Prof. C. C. Keveme MLAS F.R.S.» 
i annot be passed i 
pai only. 
“Naturalist, | 
