NOTES AND -NEWS. 
he Pedi 8 es a —_ sitar of Malvez’ on which Mr. Edmund G. 
Baker, F Sy o lon engaged, still continues to appear at intervals in 
the a of yy the saieae oe being in the number Yor March 1893. 
A co sie of Burton-on-Trent botaists fechas . J. E. Nowers - James 
Wells, have been paying attention to the s of the Aran Islands in Catone 
Bay in 1890, and have published an Bere tag list and notes concerning them, 
in the June 1892 number of the ‘ Journal of Botany.’ 
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Geologists will welcome the beginning of the publication by the Geologie al 
Survey of the long- signees index-map’ on a scale of four miles to the in 
mong the sheets now y for issue is abet of East Vorlishire | (No. 6). while 
incorporating muc det Chet these maps ingularly clear, and the complete 
series will constitute by far the best Sistapleal map of England yet available. 
Oe 
In ‘ Notes and Queries’ for May 13th, 1893, Dr. J. A. H. Murray, of Oxford, 
ee Editor of the new standard English cat a 6 has a note as to the use of the 
ords ‘ crow’ and ‘ rook’ for nage TrUs: tlegus. He wishes to ascertain how far 
sed 
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Yorkshire, and Nort nco. toning tha Will. our fie ae the benefit ad their 
knowledge on this nee 
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ia address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Hertfordshire Natural 
wed —— by Jo ohn Hopkinson, FLL. S., F.G.S., € etc., the president, has 
eens rinted fro i r. Hopkinson, 
who “i el known in Soukehire, specially in Leeds, was the found Me this 
Society, and to him it ow mah of i ccess. address, which is a com- 
prehensive Besa of Darwin, his tife a and work, is Pose in clear rh ens 
and being interspersed with ‘aldose will be of interest to the general reader. 
RRR GE a 
At a meeting of the Entomological bigs of London which was held on the 
1oth May, 1893, co L. C. Miall, F.R.S., communicated a paper entitled 
*“Dicranota: a Carnivorous Tipulid rptaling and the President ay Palle that 
the new Tikser yen soning which had been ge sie Mr. Champion, with the 
assistance of Mr. McLachlan and Dr. Sharp, paces ready for sale to the 
public at gs., and to the Fellows of the eee at (a copy. 
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e Naturalists of (Lincolnshire 2 are x aed ave an excursion at Mablethorpe on 
Monday, June 12th, for the purpose of investiga pete gs ~~ ee hen grote 
There is, per 
il me ny of the m 
prominent naturalists rs Lincolnshire and of some in Saag ag are connected 
with this excursion, n organised by Mr. Walter F. Baker, who may 
addressed at 18, Hyde vars, Leeds, by m0: one desirous of j 5a re the party. 
There is every Prbvemecns e of this meeting bein * ores succe d it is sincerely 
to be hoped es it will be the precursor o ar series a meetings for 
considering great natural Fo vantages ey colnshire 
concerning ik Wick it is surprising that so little appears. re have hitherto been done. ‘done. 
Naturalist, 
