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*Nat. Hist. Trans. Northum., Durham, & Newcastle, Vol. 8, pt. i., 1884. [Society. 

 *The Naturalists' World, Dec. 1884. [Editor. 

 *The Yorks. Caves : a three days' trip, 1882.— T. T. Clarke, 18 pp.[Tyneside Club. 

 ■*0n a Perched Block of Sandstone in Lunedale, &c. — S. Oswald, 8 pp. [Id. 



Voyage to Spitzbergen, &c. — Abel Chapman, 21 pp. and 4 plates. [Id. 



Presidential Address by Rev. A. JNI. Norman (on Deep-sea Faunas), 68 pp. [Id. 

 *Grevillea, a Quarterly Record of Cryptogamic Botany, Dec. 1884. [Editor. 



Revue Bryologique (Edited by T. Husnot), 1884, No. 6. [Editor. 



Scottish Naturalist, edited by Prof. Trail, Oct. 1884. [Editor. 



Illustrated Science Monthly, Dec. 1884. [The Pubhsher. 



*Local Notes for Science Students. Geology — Osmund W. Jeffs, i884.[The Author. 

 *Botanical Record Club— Report for the year 1883. [The Clulj. 



Systematic List of the Butterflies of Europe, by H. C. Lang, 1884, 4to., pp. 6. 



[L. Reeve & Co. 



*Hobkirk's Synopsis of the British Mosses — Second Edition, 1884, pp. 240. 



[L. Reeve & Co. 



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IVEoSSeS Wanted. — Hookeria Icete-virens, Epipterygiian tozeri, Mynrium 

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 Hypnnm crista- castrensis, both in fruit; also Dieranum fidvelhcm. — Mrs. 

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Wanted. — Yorkshire Naturalists' Recorder, 1872-1873. Offered for it, 

 Naturalist, vol. 5, or cash. — Editors of the Naturalist, Park Row, Leeds. 



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