NORTH ERN NEWS. 



Mr. W. P. Westell records the occurrence of the 'Air' Bug^ [Verlusia 

 rhombea) at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, in August last. 



Dr. W. E. Hoyie contributes to the January ' Journal of Conchology ' 

 <\n appreciation of the work of Isaac Cooke Thompson, F.L.S., who died 

 at Liverpool last November. 



A proposal is on foot to invite the British xAssociation to visit York in 

 igo6, when the Association will celebrate the seventy-fifih anniversary of 

 its foundation. Its first meeting- was held at York. 



The Chief Librarian of the Hull Public Libraries has prepared a special 

 card catalog-ue of the scientific and natural history works under his charg-e 

 for the use of the members of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club. 



Under the editorship of Messrs. C. H. Hunt and J. J. Og-le is issued the 

 ' Bootle Free Library, Museum, and Technical School Journal,' which 

 contains various items of news of interest to those vising- the three Bootle 

 institutions. 



Amongst a leng;thy 'List of New Mineral Names,' g-iven by Mr. L. J. 

 Spencer in the December ' Mineralog-ical Mag-azine,' we notice ' Anemolite,' 

 as applied to a curved and upturned form of stalactite from the Derbyshire 

 Limestone Caves. 



At a recent meeting- of the Entomolog-ical Society Mr. G. T. Porritt 

 exhibited, on behalf of Mr. T. A. Lofthouse, a specimen of Xylophasia 

 jsollikqferi, taken near Middlesbrough in September (see 'The Naturalist,' 

 December 1903, p. 456). 



In an article on ' Our Coast Museums and their Zoological Treasures. 

 1. The East Coast,' in the November ' Field Naturalist's Quarterly,' Mr. 

 F. G. Aflalo deals with the Scarboroug^h and Hull Museums, pax'ing- par- 

 ticular attention to the whales in the latter. 



' Knowledg-e,' after 22 years' career, chang^es hands with the February 

 number. It has amalg-amated with the ' Illustrated Scientific News,' and 

 will in future be issued by the publishers of the latter, under the title of 

 ^ Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News.' 



We reg-ret to record the death of Mr. Robert Etheridg-e, F.R.S., which 

 recently occurred at Chelsea, in iiis 86th year. Etheridge was the author 

 of many important g-eological and palseontolog-ical works. In 1875 he 

 edited the third edition of Phillips' well-known ' Geolog-y of the Yorkshire 

 Coast.' 



Judging- from the publications of the Leicester Literar}- and Philosophical 

 Society that society is one of the very few of its kind that has not developed 

 into a lime-light lecture society, but does conscientious work on the lines 

 originally laid down by its founders. The total number of members and 

 associates is now 333. 



The Council of the Geological Society has awarded the Murcliison 

 Medal to Professor G. A. Lebour, of the Durham CoUeg-e of Science at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, in appreciation of his labours among-st the Carboniferous 

 rocks. Miss E. M. Wood, whose excellent work among-st the graptolites is 

 well known, also receives recog-nition. 



The Grimsby Education Committee having- expressed its willing-ness to 

 take over and maintain the Museum of the Grimsby and District Naturalists' 

 Society, the Society has presented its collection of natural history specimens 

 to the town. Mr, A. Smith, the Hon. Sec. of the Grimsby Society, has been 

 given an appointment under the Committee. 



At a recent meeting- of the Entomological Society were two interesting- 

 exhibits from Great Salkeld, in Cumberland, made on behalf of Mr. H. 

 Britten, These were: (i) a specimen of TropipJionis fo)}ie}ifosus, showm^ 

 the deciduous false mandibles intact ; and {2) a female AjicJiojiioiks panini- 

 pimctatus, showing a malformation of the middle right tibia, which was 

 abnormally thin, and bent in the centre, but thickened at the base ; the 

 right antenna also had the last seven joints flattened and dilated. 



N.ntiiralist, 



6 FEB. 1904 



