NOTE—MAMMALIA, 
Badger in t ormgnacr pelt and biti enomnigh Bez Badger (Meles 
seal Bodd.) killed at robe cents (Div. 10) on 8t e was secured in 
05 sd a ‘end Prof. J. F. Blake, who tease forwaaded it to me tot 
hs th The specimen was a sma 
die ere gate was chased and killed be a ‘pa ack of foxhounds a 
tieperton; Notts on Line Javionld this year; and another was taken pe ; 
at Th 
m faformied that 1 no fewer than five tg be were killed at Bunny, 
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near ee ae in the late autumn of ih but I have not been able ~ 
© ascertain any further particulars.—J. W. Carr, University oven 
Not anein, 25th June 1898. 
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NOTE—MOSSES AND HEPATICS. : 
New and Rare West Yorkshire Mosses and — atics.—In a wet 
clay field. bordering oe eoygeaeta Moor, near Harrogate, I ae recently 
gathered two arena have not hitherto been recorded for the West 
part) © Mali rutilans Lindb. (= Wezssia mucronata B.&S.) 
Funaria satus indb. (= Ent ernie a iis 8 mult. auct.). The 
Mollia occurre es patches, Whigh:w endered very conspicuous b 
the d rich erat si n 5 e same field grew the tiny 
Hepatic Fossombroma pus u ith fruit. For this I obse that 
Lees giv © localities, describing it : Pateley 
s ‘very rare. The 
district has afforded me two rare Hepatics, viz., Diplophyllum minutum 
icks., Dum., from Guy’s Cliff, and Liochlena la nceolata L., Nees, from 
Wath Waterfall. Of the last Mr. M. B. Slater writes :—‘ It is a very rare 
plant, turning up sporadically here and there. I only gathered it once, near 
e Esk bank in Arncliffe Woo b c 
th k bank in Arncliffe Wood, where it was first gathered by S eso 
n 1842. It is rar that locality nt is incon- 
spicuous, a ight possibly have passed by it but for the presence of its 
characteristic arcuate pe L ELLYN JAMESON Cocks, Godolphin 
ouse, Harrogate, 21st June ¢ 
Seat, a fh acre RAN EA 
NOTE—SPONGES. 
Freshwater Sponges in Yorkshire.—In the spring of this year 
I obtained specimens of a sponge attached to sticks in the Oak Beck, 
é i to Mr. ft Bare 
ew sie 
ounces it rd tie Spongilla lacustris. Ut is distinguished by the spicules 
‘ : a 
of its statoblasts being arcuate and spinose, while those of Meyent 
(Spongilla) fucviatiti, our ome other British freshwater sponge, are 
bi-rotulate. r. W. Denison Roebuck tells me that in his bibliographical 
a n 
of freshwater sponges in Yorkshire. The first is in a p onella 
n Alcy 
stagnorum, by Mr. T. Pridgin Teale, read oni tis “Philosophical and 
Literary Society of Leeds, i November 1835 (Transactions, vol. I, pt. I, 
page 22) in which Alcyonelle are mentioned as having been found ‘by him 
ap racecourse in Haigh Park, near Leeds, accomp: 
‘ Spon, fi ilis’ and encrusting dead twigs. y Meyenia 
fluviatilis is the species here referred to, as Spongilla friabilis (now called 
eyent is not a British species e r rec he 
J : age paper the microscopic fauna and of 
Markington (Naturalist, May 1890, p. 152), where Spongilla fluviatilis is 
st bund. the stream near the Rectory, Riple The 
ce 0 Te) h does not afford ground for supposing that 
‘ re ir r count 
have any observations of their occurrence comm eb deicce as to the Naturalist, 
with a view to ascertaining their distribution in the northern counties of 
England. ee JAMESON COCcKs, “Godelebmn "House, Harrogate ate, 
asth rr ie Gnas cos “Naturalist, 
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