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able to most fungi) may not have suited this species, perhaps 

 through the hick of warmth. We were, however, rewarded by 

 one find of great interest, viz., Jfycena rorida Fr. This most 

 beautiful and somewhat rare Agaric was found by Mr. Cheesman 

 gTowing in some quantity on dead bramble stems ; it is at once 

 distinguished by the stem being covered with glistening' trans- 

 parent jelh-like gluten, especially round the middle and at the 

 base where it sometimes accumulates in a large drop. In 

 appearance the species, with its decurrent gills and beautifully 

 crenate margin, has quite the appearance of an Omphalia. The 

 onh previous Yorkshire record appears to be Scarborough 

 (G. Massee). Another species noted was Clitocybe neb^iLaris 

 (Batsch.), among dead leaves under beeches. — Thos. Gibbs, 

 Sheffield, 13th December 1903. 



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ORTHOPTERA. 



Rhyparobia niaderas at Bradford. — Recently, Mr. J. W. 

 Carter gave me two specimens of orthoptera which had been 

 taken in an orchid house at Bradford. One of them is an 

 example of the fine Rhyparobia madercE ; the other a very pretty 

 bright pale green Panchlora, but the exact species of which 

 I have as yet been unable to get determined. Of R. maderce 

 Mr. E. G. Bayford has also an example, captured at Hoyland 

 Common, near Barnsley ; and both it and the Panchlora are 

 hitherto unrecorded for Yorkshire. Both species are mere 

 casuals in Britain, and have no doubt been imported with fruit, 

 plant roots, or something of the kind. A few have occurred in 

 the London district, chiefly about Covent Garden Market. — Geo. 

 T. PoRRiTT, Huddersfield, 6th February 1904. 



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A New Theory of Organic Evolution. By J. \V. Barclay. Black- 

 wood t\: Sons, 1903. 3.S. 6d. net. 174 pp. \\\ this work the author proposes 

 'to test b\- the comrnon sense that Huxle\" s,-i\s is science, whether the 

 Darwinian doctrine, that the evolution of ii 011 imr planet was broug-ht 

 about by natural selection and other second .! \ c mu'-o. ;u-cords with ascer- 

 tainetl tacts .... and, also, to submit a iu-\\- ihoorx' that will explain 

 sat i>ractoi'il\' llu" adniilled facts ol cx'ohil ion . ' i^arcla\', however, will not 



secui'c the serious attention of SL-ieniitic uumi io his ' New Theory , ' which 

 is a foiMU of the 'special creation' lupol hesis. His iynoi'ance of man}- 

 elenienlarx' naiur.ii piieiUMncna is perliap.s uot aUos4"ether unexpected. 



Naturalist, 



