NOTES AND NEWS. 



Eupithecia indigata, Hiibn. Local, all the localities recorded being 

 in Cheshire, viz.: — Alderiey, Lindow Common, Dunham Park, 

 Rudd Heath, Delamere and Chat Moss (J.C.) ; Bidston (W.J., 

 J.W.E.); Prenton and Storeton (C.S.G.); Prenton, Ness, and 

 Burton (A.O.W.). 



Eupithecia abbreviata, Steph. Generally distributed and fairly 

 common in oak woods. 



Eupithecia exiguata, Hiibn. Common and generally distributed. 



Eupithecia sobrinata, Hiibn. Recorded from Grange and Preston 

 (J.B.H.). 



Eupithecia pumilata, Hiibn. Tolerably common. 

 Lane. — Preston, Grange, etc. (J.B.H.). 



Ches. — Bidston Hill and New Brighton, among gorse (C.S.G.); 

 Bidston (W.J., A.O.W.); Claughton fir-wood and Haddon Wood 

 (A.O.W.); Alderiey district, common (H.H.C.) ; Delamere, 

 abundant (C.S.G., Ent., vi. 452) ; Wallasey (G.T.P.). 



NOTES AND NEWS, 



The length to which the two vakiable and interesting articles we print this 

 month extend compels us to hold over numerous short notes which we had hoped 

 to insert. The account of the very successful annual meeting of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union at Dewsbury also stands over, together with notices of several 

 important recently-published books. 



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We regret to hear of the death of Mr. Joseph Jackson, of Settle, which took 

 place suddenly on the 9th December last. Mr. Jackson was the discoverer of the 

 famous 'Victoria Cave,' so named because the discovery took place in the year of 

 Her Majesty's accession to the throne. 



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We have received the second part (lately published) of the Transactions of the 

 Leeds Geological Association, edited by our friend Mr. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S., 

 the honorary secretary to the Society, to whom it owes in great measure the 

 prosperity it has enjoyed during the jDast few years. 



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We are pleased to hear of the establishment under favourable auspices of a 

 new society at Skipton-in-Craven, under the title of ' The Craven Naturalists' and 

 Scientific Association.' The subscription is to be 2s. 6d. for ordinary and los. 6d. 

 for honorary members, and Mr. C. C. Smith was appointed secretary. The 

 appointment of other officers was deferred to a meeting on the 28th March. 



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One who has never tasted Clitopihis priaiulus does not know what a delicious 

 morsel is ; so our mycologists say. 



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The ' Globe ' was some time ago responsible for the following brilliant example 

 of newspaper science: — 



'What is It? — Ornithologists will hasten to Lincolnshire to obtain a view of 

 the remarkable bird which a shepherd in that county has just captured. None of 

 the local authorities can tell its name. It is about the size of a turkey, but is not a 

 turkey, inasmuch as it can swim. For the same reason it can hardly be, as some 

 of the Lincolnshire folk are said to imagine, a vulture. Anyhow it is a rara avis, 

 though not in the least like a black swan.' 

 April 1887. 



