So NOTES AND NEWS. 



addition, whenever possible, of the year in which each monograph 

 or article appeared. If each author's work had been plotted 

 chronologically it would have been a great advantage, as it would 

 have been an index to his own evolution in the study, as well as 

 a clue to the priority of any given discovery, I regret that by an 

 oversight my researches into the earthworms of Ireland, published 

 in the Irish Naturalist, were not brought under Mr. BeddarcTs 

 notice, as the inclusion of Irish habitats would have been of value 

 in the study of zoogeography. In conclusion, I must express 

 my pleasure that we in England are now abreast of our continental 

 confreres in the matter of a scientific monograph dealing with the 

 oligochcets which will range well with the latest productions of Rosa, 

 Vejdovsky, Eisen, and other front-rank investigators. 



Cockermoitth. 



Hilderic Friend. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



By the courtesy of the authors, we have received a reprint of a paper 'On the 

 Structure of the Root/ which was read to the Leeds Naturalists' Club on 

 November ist, 1895, by Messrs. Harold Wager, F.L.S., and Norman Walker, an<T 

 was afterwards printed in the January number of the ■ Journal of Microscopy and 

 Natural Science. 7 The paper, which is general in its scope, and includes some 

 directions as to technique, is illustrated by a plate, from drawings by Mr. Wager. 



We note that the scientific activity for which our Halifax friends have long 

 been noted leads them to found an origan of their own. We have before us the 

 prospectus of 'The Halifax Naturalist, and Record of the Scientific Society, 

 which it is proposed shall appear bi-monthly, and be strictly confined to the 

 extensive and well-defined ancient parish of Halifax. One feature is to be a 

 separately-paged Flora of the Halifax Parish. The subscription is to be three 

 shillings per annum. 



Many of our readers are aware that the Bishop of Wakefield is a man of 

 many accomplishments, and it appears from the October ■ Leisure Hour ■ the 

 ex -President of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union discovered Cardamine amara in 

 the Duddon Woods; the finding of the plant is described on p. 762 of the afore- 

 mentioned magazine. Mr. Petty included the species on the authority of the 



The Council of th> Geological Society ha.- awarded the Murchison Medal for 

 this year to Mr. T. Mellard Reade, C.F.,F.G.S., of Liverpool, whose work on 

 the glacial and other geology of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the adjacent countie- 

 is well known to our readers. Another contributor to this journal, Mr. A. Smith 

 Woodward, F.G.S.,F. L.S., receives the Lyell Medal; while the Balance of \\w 

 Wollaston Donation Fund and part of the Barlow- Jameson Fund are awarded 

 to Mr. Alfred Harker, one of our Associate Editors. 



We are glad to note the activity of the Geological members of the Lincolnshire 



Naturalists' Union, asmanif I by a circular from Mr. John II. Cooke, B>c, etc. y 

 announcing a series of geological excursions in the neighbourhood of Lincoln. 

 The immediate object is to study systematically and in detail the various 

 formations of the county and to afford members opportunities for taking up 

 special lines of geological research. The work will consist mainly in carefull \ 

 noting the Stratigraphical and Liihological features of the formations and in 

 collecting the fossils, commencing with the Lias Clays which form one of the 

 most prominent geological features of Lincolnshire. 



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