NOTES AND NEWS. 
~ As oa pg PSS =i of Pabheo -on-Tweed, describes 
in ite! ‘joan of Botan ny’ f r Mar a new n e Alga, to —s he 
gives the name of a cecputione repost Aaldde he details on a pla 
doom 
The decease of the Rev. F. O. Mor orris, B.A., the Rector of Nunburnholme 
n the roth of a ebruary ts: at the ripe age of 83, removed from our midst 
a noteworth e. e was a prolific author on various natural history subjects, 
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of him appeared in the ‘ Graphic’ aud < Tlustrated London News’ soon 
the news of his dea oe 
By the death of Dr. B. Carrington, which took place at Brighton, on the 18 
January last, British Hepaticology has lost one of its most accomplished cael 
joi . Mia 
At one time resident at Yeadon, ne as joint-author with Prof. Miall 
f ‘A FI f the West Riding of Yorkshire,’ published ut 2, of which he 
wrote the cryptogamic tosses or man ad been resident at Eccles, 
near Manchester, and was president of the Manchester Cryptogamic Society, a 
body which we fear Bi now defunct, although it was one of the most useful 
societies Manchester ever had. Carring n’s great work on Br epaticz 
was still unfinished at the time of his death, but it is hoped that our students of 
this group will take up and carry on the wo some form or other, as indeed 
we believe Mr. W. H. Pearson will do 
The Barnsley Naturalists’ Society have lost a warm friend and ever faithful 
supporter by the death of Mr. W. J. Lancaster, on the 6th of February last, at the 
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President. _ His interest in the Society can be said to have mcheealy ceased wit 
life, for under his will the Society received a bequest of £100, together with 
a valuable microscope and numerous objects 
We have received the 3rd volume of the ‘Transactions of the Rochdale 
Literary and Scientific Society,’ for 1891-92. From a ty pographical point of 
view the past reflects great oe on the town, as aun ens the literary and 
scientific matter it contains. rst paper is b re S. Smithson, who 
treats of Batr aehospermum and its life-history under the title of ‘Bead Moss.’ 
‘Coal Smoke ursed upon by Mr. ‘f. Stenhouse, F.C.S., ‘ Rochdale 
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Swedish of cme Hjalmar Stolpe, which is profusely illustrated. There are 
a a sone of articles in the volume which more directly come under our cognisance, 
being more distinctly local tie research. Mr. J. R. Ashworth treats in 
detail on the ‘ Seasonal yore bse ek Sonal - Spring Mill Reservoir’ and 
S. Platt gives ‘Some of the Recent Results of the 
Investigations into Local Bava itic ‘Blocks; ilinsteating spe y a map showing the 
position of Local Erratic Blocks. € proceedings and reports, which bring up 
the rear, show that the "Beete 5 is “ a healthy, active aa flourishing condition. 
g may it continue so! 
N 
Naturalist, 
