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method of, and its pagination runs om the end of, the parent volume 
Only a limited number of have been done, presumably in consequence 
of the poo ‘ It is the only rk on th bject, and it is 
no credit to workers in English botany t the compilers should have to 
bear a loss after years of careful and thankless labour. fea he k fills its i 
gap in biographical literature. The present writer can add nothing, except i 
praise, where it is cap aug due. The price is cighteenpence for thirty | 
NOTE—MAMMALIA, 
Putorius hogs near Louth.—yYesterday I received from Mr. 
Chowler, of this town, a male Polecat (Putorius putorius) in the flesh and 
i h. He f it the same day fr ar L 
the tail itself being 7 in. in length.—H. H. CorsBett, 9, Priory Place, 
Doncaster, 25th April 1899. 
NOTE—COLEOPTERA. 
- Bembidium ee in Cumberland.—On 6th May this s year, m aa 
friend, Mr. F. H. Day, and I worked im river Irthing below Lanercost for ta 2 
Bembidi e species taken were Bembidium punctulatum, B. litt > se 
B. atroceruleum, B. tibiale, and B. decorum—all c 7 Colts | ee 
got several, and two specimens of 2. schiippeli Dej. They were running 
ont y ich abound alon river ra ‘ . 
eine visit to this locality, and on this occasion cimens found their ase 
into my collecting bottle. This is the loca ality, where « Wes Ge was 57 14 
Poet by Bold more than half a century ago, and Mr. A. Ne wberys Ki 
= Pslcites i gods i were sent for verification, yearn us "hit it has no 
n Britain for a good many years.—JAs. MuRRAY, 11, Clos 
peticlty Co dtiske, ai Fay 1899. 
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NOTES AND NEWS. 
The ‘ First Suppl ement’ to Messrs. Britten and Boulger’s pea 
dex of British and Irish Botanists’ has lately appeared. It follows ae { 
and its inati on from end o 
pages and wrappers, a by no means exorbitant figu 
Se 
By the recent death of Edward Woodthorpe, of Alford, Lincolnshire, 
a victim of phthisis, the county has lost a most promising young naturalist. 
his i i aim 
considerable mee in sideenpe co while his data as to time an place were 
and was a ight example o life 
~atipeasin J limited time at his disposal. was the first to take the Purple - 
Emperor (Apatura iris) at Welton Wood, jae ar Alford. His captures I had 
the opportunity of seeing.—J. E. "M., 17t th May 
_Lepidopterists will be sorry to dp Koat of the death of an old member of the ¥ 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, Mr. George Jackson, of Nunnery Lane, — 
ea ay e. 
York, at th f 63, which took place on the 3oth June, after a long an 
lingering e hard-working entomologist and a thorough 
eld naturalist of th ype, and he a nd varied 
experience in the branch (Lepidoptera) in which he was interest 
was very successful in eding the rk variety of Arctia lubricipeda, 
y of the cabinets in the country being enrich series from his 
results, H so bred at different times y fine varieties o a 
caja and Abraxas grossu ariata, and hi ction (as a e) might be 
considered the best in the district. He was one wists ipsam of the York 
and District Field gan Society, and was e eady to mags suse 
devoutly ata to its mem ie ro a to that ‘Section ‘to which hi 
