NOTE—MOSSES. 
“rage pa aduncum var. plumulosum added to the York- 
erie Moss-Flora.—In May las t, while out moss-collecting Ae Hebden 
Bridge, I came ach a species ome. Being unable to determine 
it satisfactorily, s specimens were sen nt on to Mr. M. B, Slater, ELS. .» Malton. 
Mr. Slater considered it to be a variety of Amblystegium aduncum (L.) Lindb., 
her s it it ithwaite, who rmined it as var. 
plumulosum Br ; includes it under that variety for Hebden Bridge, 
n his recently-issued Part xviii of the British Moss-Flora. e only other 
habitats there given for it are Snowdon (Dixon) and Glen Fender, Blair Athol 
(Braithw 1 hinks it may be found in oth 1 sub- 
alpine districts by careful investigation.—J. NEEDHAM, Hebden Bridge, 
7th 898. peer eer Sav 
BOOK NOTICE. 
We have hitherto omitted to notice an admirable paper by Mr. JOHN 
CLAYTON, entitled ‘Effects of the Weather upon Vegetation,’ being 
irc 
1897; it was pri Br me oe is 
obtainable e author, 
M layton is one of o sabi pe end 2g Dotanists jae aiyehin ng tha at 
he writes is well worth reading, the present paper being no gies 
A collotype photograph of a thorn hedge forms a pe Leto Exper 
ments with bean-plants in shade and in sunshine, m 1891 and 1 Bb, 
are discussed and the results svads and the feats sr pri es shade, 
shower, are investigated. 
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NOTES AND NEWS. 
John Nimmo has just issued, in two volumes, a work on 
wacban and o Jourhutts,’ by the grana-danester of the great American 
grpcecca, Maria R, Audubon, with s by Elliot pe 
rnals 
fical ei e jou > careft dited. The nu ; 
illustrations i tude thee hikcad unpublished bird-drawings, and no 
less than ten portedils of "Rade bon. together we may look forward to 
the perusal of a most interesting biography. 
: rire very successful meeting was held in the rooms of the Manchester 
Liter. Meg Philoso see Society on Wednesday, February 16th, of repre- 
encnderes f the Natural History Saeed Scientific ocieties of the Ce ntre and 
North of Exigtand in pals rt of the fourth meeting of the International 
Congress of Zoology to be aide in Cambridge ‘tis ont Mr. J. Cosmo 
Melvill ‘presided, and Prof. S. Hickson gav short ng story 
of the International Congress, explaine ed the ot see for which i was 
instituted, and briefly sketched the probable programme of the ak, 
Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, of the North Staffordshire Field Club, then proposed 
and dele e ngton Museum, jowing 
resolution, which was carried unanimously :—‘ That this meeting of person 
resident in the — e and oe of England, and interested in Zoological 
progress, $s most cor support he ittee organizin 
fourth tieetitnge of the fiteriatirint Congress of Zoology to 1 
Cambri in the last week in August expr $s a sincer 
all societies instituted for the study o} » al ndred subjects will 
og according to their means, to the funds ) 
a 1 @ or more representatives from the attend t 
ngress.’ The meeting was at by representatives of T orkshire 
Naturalists’ Union, Yorkshire Philosophical i ster Scientific 
c 
Burnley pen and A Lest beg eisept and many other 
Similar i r institutions. —S. eer : ee 
Pril 1898, 
