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'The Salmonidae of Westmoreland, Angling B,eminiscenees, 

 and Leaves from an Angler's lQ"ote Book.'— By George Foster 

 Braithwaite. London : Hamilton. Adams, and Co. Kendal : printed by 

 Atkinson and Pollitt, 1884. 

 The major portion of this work is devoted to chatty reminiscences of an angler's 

 life, and it is in the first few chapters only that the ' Salmonidae of Westmoreland ' 

 are dealt with, and this in a somewhat confused manner. Those species which our 

 author includes are the Salmon, which frequent nearly all the rivers ; Salmon-trout, 

 locally called 'morts'; an allied ' species' or variety, locally known as 'sprods'; Bull- 

 trout [a variety of the Salmon-trout], rarely met with even in the tributaries of the 

 Eden; all these being migratory species. Of non-migratory species Mr. Braithwaite 

 speaks of Common Trout, of which a brilliantly-coloured variety occurs in Maller- 

 stang ; Great Lake Trout, now — it is to be feared — extinct in Ullswater, though 

 still existing in Windermere ; Char, abundant in Windermere and Haweswater. 

 -extinct in Ullswater ; Gwyniad or freshwater herring, very numerous twenty-five 

 years ago in Ullswater, Haweswater, &c. ; Vendace, in Windermere ; and the 

 Smelt, or Sparling, plentiful at the Kent mouth. The destruction of the former 

 great value of Lake Ullswater as an angling resort is attributed by the author to 

 the construction of a weir in its effluent stream the Eamont preventing the fish 

 visiting its tributaries to spawn ; and he does not consider it due to pollution. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The present number is the twelfth which has been issued under the present 

 Editorship, and would in the ordinary course have terminated the volume. It has, 

 however, been decided that the current volume shall continue to the end of the 

 year 1885, so that future volumes may coincide with the years. In making this 

 announcement the Editors tender their thanks to all who have contributed to the 

 success of their journal, both as contributors and as subscribers. 



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The Rev. Hilderic Friend, F.L.S., of Worksop, Notts., has corrected the proofs of 

 a great part of his new work entitled '.The Ministry of Flowers,' which will be pub- 

 lished shortly by Messrs. W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., who recently issued 

 ' Flowers and Flower Lore,' by the same author. 



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This year's list of fifteen elections to the Fellowship of the Royal Society 

 includes the names of Prof. W. M. Hicks, M.A., principal of the Firth College at 

 Sheffield, Prof. A. Milnes Marshall, M.D., of the Owens College, Manchester, and 

 Prof. H. N. Martin, D.Sc. 



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At the annual meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, held on the 20th of 

 May, the following — amongst others — were elected Members: — James Back- 

 house, jun., York; Capt. E. F. Becher, R.A., F.Z.S., Southwell, Notts.; W. F. 

 Brockholes, Claughton-on-Brock, Garstang, Lancashire ; and Sir Ralph F. R. 

 Payne Gallwey, Bart., Thirkleby Park, Thirsk. 



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The annual meeting of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club was held on the 

 19th of May, at Newcastle. Dr. Philipson, president, in his address referred to 

 the death of the Rev. J. F. Bigge, vicar of Stamfordham, an ex-president, and 

 expressed his gratification that both the roll of members (now numbering over 550) 

 and the finances were in so satisfactory a condition, Mr. R. Y. Green, treasurer, 

 stated that the income of the past year, including a balance of was ^141 lOs., 

 and after meeting all liabilities there remained a balance in hand of ^94 i8s. I id. 

 The following gentlemen were elected officers for the current year :— President, 

 Mr. Flenry Cooper Abbs; vice-presidents, Mr. James Clephan, Mi* John Hancock, 

 Mr. John Philipson, Mr. D. O. Drewett ; treasurer, Mr. R. Y. Green ; secretaries, 

 Mr. R. Howse and Mr. Thomas Thompson. The excursions for the year were 

 fixed to be made to Blaydon Burn, Spen, and Rowland's Gill; to Askrigg and 

 Hawes ; to Warkworth and the Lower Coquet ; to Twizell House and Belford ; 

 to Redcar and Saltburn ; and to Holywell and Hartley. Naturalist 



