The NATURALIST. 



It being the wish of the Editors to make the journal the recognised organ for 

 information concerning the natural history of the North of England, they hope 

 to rely on Naturahsts keeping them supplied with articles and short notes 

 from time to time. >od< 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Midland Naturalist, No. 114, for June 1887. [The Editors, Birmingham. 

 The Young Naturalist, Part Ixxxx, for June 1887. [Mr. J. E. Robson, Editor. 

 Science Gossip, No. 270, for June 1887. [Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Publishers. 

 The Naturalists' World, vol. 4, No. 42, for June 1887. [Mr. Percy Lund, Editor. 

 Nottingham Naturalists' Society. — Transactions and 24th Report, 1886. — 4to, 



76 pages and plates. [The Society. 



Glasgow Natural History Society. — Proceedings and Transactions, vol. i (new 



series), part iii, 1885-86. [The Society. 



Natural History Journal, vol. xi, No. 95, June 1887. [Messrs. J. E. Clark and 



B. B. Le Tall, Editors. 



The Zoologist, for June 1887, No. 126. [Mr. J. E. Harting, Editor. 



Grevillea, for June 1887, vol. xv, No. 76. [Dr. M. C. Cooke, Editor. 



Notarisia, commentarium phycologicum. — Anno ii, No. 6, Aprile 1887. 



[Dottori G. B. de Toni e David Levi, Redattori. 

 The Wesley Nat., vol. i. No. 4. for June 1887. [The Wesley Scientific Society. 

 T. Mellarde Reade — Notes on a bed of Freshwater Shells and a Chipped Flint lately 

 found at the Alt mouth, and other papers. 8vo reprint, 8 pages and plates. 



[The Author. 



A. Harker — Reviews of Rosenbusch's Mikroskopische Physiographic der Massigen 



Gesteine, Reade's Origin of Mountain Ranges, and Bulletin No. 28 of the 



U.S. Geol. Survey. Three 8vo pamphlets. 1887. [The Author. 



James Kynoch — The Wild Flowers of Barmouth and neighbourhood, 2nd edition, 



enlarged. 1887, 8vo, 10 pages. [The Author. 



James Kynoch — The Shells of Barmouth and neighbourhood. One page reprint, 



1887. [The Author. 



The Fossil Fishes of the Chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria, by J. W. Davis 



(Scient. Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc, vol. iii. No. 12). [The Society. 



On the cause of iridescence in clouds, by Prof. G. J. Stoney (Scient. Trans. Roy. 



Dub. Soc, vol. iii. No. 13). ' [The Society. 



On New Zealand Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species, by Dr. 



David Sharp (Scient. Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc, vol. iii. No. ii). [The Society. 

 Royal Dublin Society — Scientific Procs., vols, v, pts. 3, 4, 5, and 6. [The Society. 

 Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on- 



Tyne, vol. ix, part i, 1887, 223 pages. [The Tyneside Club. 



Handl^ook of Middlesbrough and District, being notes historical, industrial, 



scientific, 1881, cloth, 93 pages, with geological maps and sections. 

 [W. H. Burnett, publisher. 



Yorkshire Neuroptera and. Orthoptera. — I am anxious during the 

 present and several future seasons to work up the Neuroptera and Orthoptera of 

 our county as much as possible, with a view to publishing a list of species, with 

 their localities, etc., and shall be very grateful to all entomologists (or other 

 naturalists) who, when out collecting their own particular groups of objects, will 

 kindly kill and pin (of course they need not trouble to set them) one or two or 

 three specimens of any species they may come across, and send them to me at the 

 end of the season — or oftener if it be not too much trouble. The families in the 

 Neuroptera wanted are the Libellielidu' {'Dx^go\\-?i\e'i),PerIid(v (Stone-flies), ^'/^//t/cr, 

 Raphidiid(Z (Snake-flies), Osniylidce, Hejjierobida:, Chrysopidcs (Lacewing-flies), 

 Coniopterygi\\(e, Panorpidce (Scorpion-flies), and the TrickoptercE (Caddis-flies). 

 The two other British groups, PsocidcB and EphemeridcE (May-flies), I do not 

 propose to touch at present. The Orthoptera include the ForficulidiE (Earwigs), 

 Blattidce (Cockroaches), Acridida: (Grasshopper and Locusts), and the Achelida 

 (Crickets), all of which, with the exception of the several universally abundant 

 and distributed species, are wanted. — Geo. T. Porritt, Greenfield House, 

 Huddersfield, May i8th, 1887. 



Improved Egg Drills (2 sizes) and Metal Blowpipe with instructions 1/3 free. 

 ' Hints on Egg Collecting and Nesting,' illustrated, 3^d. free. Birds' Skins, 

 Eggs (side-blown and in clutches with date), Lepidoptera, Ova, Larvie, and Pupae, 

 Artificial Eyes, and all kinds of Naturalists' Requisites. Lists, one stamp. All 

 specimens, &c, sent out 'on approval.' 



J. & W. DAVIS (Naturalists), DARTFORD, Kent. 



The cheapest dealer in Birds, Skins, Eggs, Butterflies, Moths, Foreign Shells, 

 etc., is John Eggleston, Park Place, Sunderland. Lists free. 



