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Besides various interesting- short notes of occurrences used 

 to fill up otherwise blank pag-es, there are papers by Mr. J. F. 

 Robinson giving Addenda to the Flora of the East Riding ; an 

 interesting note by Rev. E. P. Blackburn on the Dispersal of 

 Shells by Beetles ; a note on Additions to the List of the 

 Diatomaceae of the Hull District by Mr. R. H. Philip, with a 

 plate of drawings of the new records for the district ; and 

 a valuable Third List of East Yorkshire Coleoptera, in which 

 Mr. T. Stainforth and Mr. H. E. Johnson give full details for 

 a larg^e number of species not included in the previous lists. 

 There is also a Preliminary List of Micro-lepidoptera occurring 

 within eight miles of Hull, by Mr. J. W. Boult, but as it is but 

 a bare list of names with no information whatever, it would 

 have been a wiser plan to delay its publication until full details 

 of habitat, date of appearance, etc., were given. 



TypogTaphically the work is capable of improvement. The 

 double column arrangement of the list of beetles and the too 

 frequent use of contractions of place-names is not only inartistic 

 in appearance but confusing to the eye, which the use of a thick 

 letter for species names and of lines extending across the page 

 would immensel}' improve. In this respect Mr. Robinson's 

 paper is a healthy contrast. 



The opening paper is a reprint of a pamphlet by Mr. Wade', 

 which appeared at the beginning- of the year and was reviewed 

 in this journal for March. 



The summaries of the last two annual reports which are 

 given at the end of the volume furnish further evidence of the 

 zeal and knowledge and discretion which characterise the work 

 of our Hull friends, who are to be congratulated, and their 

 indefatigable honorary secretary, Mr. T. Sheppard, in particular, 

 on the completion of another year's most excellent work. 



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The first Report of the Advisory Committee of the City of 

 Bradford Botanical Garden (Lister Park) has just been issued, 

 and contains an account of the formation and progress of the 

 garden. Already over 400 species of plants have been placed in 

 the garden and properly labelled. As far as possible the beds 

 are arranged according to the natural orders. The Bradford 

 Botanical Garden, opened in April last, has evidently come to 

 stay, and the pity is that more towns and cities are not able to 

 follow the example of Bradford. 



1904 January i. 



