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NOTES on MOLLUSCA. 



Li max cinereo=niger in North Lancashire. — On the evening of 

 6th September my wife called my attention to a fine slug- of uncommon 

 colour, on the roadside between Water Yeat and Lake Bank. It turned 

 out to ba the above species. On referring- to Adams' ' Shells,' ed. 2, 1896, 

 p. 198, I found that at that date it was not on record for V.C. 69, and I do 

 not know if it has been chronicled previously to this for the Lancashire 

 portion of the vice-county. — S. Lister Petty, Ulverston, 6th October 1902. 



Shells at Hornsea Mere. — On the excursion of the Hull Scientific 

 and Field Naturalists' Club to Hornsea on 30th August, a section exposed 

 during- the erection of a new g-asometer at the Hornsea Gasworks was 

 examined. This is situated near the railway station, some little distance 

 from the Mere. The excavation had been made through beds of gravel, 

 shell marl, and peat, which showed that the Mere had formerly occupied 

 this area. From the marl the following shells, identified by Mr. Petch, 

 B.Sc, were collected: — Splicer ium corneum, Pisidium fontinale* Valvata 

 pisci?ialis, V. cristata * Bithynia teiitacidata, Limncea p.eregra, L. auri- 

 cularia* and Planorbis albns* The four marked with an asterisk (*) are 

 additions to the list from a similar deposit at Hornsea, given in Reid's 

 'Geology of Holderness,' p. 82. — T. Sheppard, The Museum, Hull, 6th 

 September 1902. 



NOTES on METEOROLOGY. 



Remarkable Sunsets in Yorkshire. — For several evenings, but 

 particularly on 17th July, Yorkshire people have experienced most beautiful 

 sunsets. These have been connected with the recent eruption in the West 

 Indies, which filled the atmosphere with minute particles of volcanic dust. — 

 T. Sheppard, Hull, 22nd July 1902. 



Waterspout at Cottingham, East Yorkshire. — A waterspout burst 



over Cottingham, near Hull, during the morning- of 17th July. According 

 to the 'Eastern Morning News,' the clouds, which assumed a tortuous 

 conical shape, rotated rapidly towards the earth. The phenomena lasted 

 several minutes, and then the spout commenced to grow shorter and 

 shorter, until it disappeared altogether. — T. Sheppard, Hull, 22nd July 

 1902. 



NORTHERN NOTES and NEWS. 



A Condor {Sctrcorhamphus gryphus), brought sixteen years ag-o as 

 a nestling from the Chilian Andes, has recently laid an egg at the Natural 

 History Museum, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



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Mr. J. R. Mortimer, the Driffield antiquary, is about to publish the results 

 of his forty years' diggings amongst the Ancient Britons. All the important 

 ' finds ' will be illustrated from drawings by Miss Mortimer. 







In the House of Commons on the 15th July Sir John Leng asked whether 

 any record had been kept of the loss of land on the Holderness coast, and 

 whether any measures had been taken to arrest the changes affecting- the 

 navigation of the Humber. In reply it was stated that no official record 

 was kept, and that attention was given to the protection of Spurn Point. 



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Mr. J. W T . Wilson, F.R.H.S., of South Cave, has printed two pamphlets 

 for private circulation, viz. : ' The Economic Properties of Agave americana 

 (the American Aloe),' and ' The Chrysanthemum : its History and Develop- 

 ment.' The latter was read to the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' 

 Club last November. 



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