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Northern Ne-ws. 



The Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific Society has just 

 published the * Records of Meteorolog-ical Obervations taken at the 

 Observatory, Edgbaston, during 1903.' They have been prepared by 

 Mr. A. Cresswell, and are sold at 2S. 







Mr. Harold Wager has sent us reprints of two of his recent papers, viz., 

 ' The Nucleolus and Nuclear Division in the Root-apex of Phaseolus,' and 

 •The Cell Structure of the Cyanophycese. Preliminary Paper.' 



' Controvcrses Transformistes,' Par Alfred Giard, 180 pages, 23 figures, 

 7 francs, C. Naud, 3, Rue Racine, Paris. The author of this work has 

 taken part in all the recent controversies relative to the Laws of Evolution, 

 which have, been the subject for instruction which the City of Paris has 

 confided to him at the Sorbonne. The volume contains certain contribu- 

 tions from his pen on this interesting subject, which have appeared in 

 various memoirs, and they will be much appreciated in their present form. 

 The essays will be read with interest and profit, not only by biologists, 

 but by all those who interest themselves in the progress of scientific ideas 

 during- the last quarter of a century. 



Two Badgers ha\e recently been killed near Bedale, where they seem 

 to have increased in numbers in recent years. 



Mr. N. Treveling- informs us that he captured two specimens of Apocheima 

 pedaria in Mean wood Wood, Leeds, on loth March. 



A fine ' fossil tree ' is reported as recently found at Sowerby Bridge. It 

 is 17 feet in leng-th and varies from nine to twelve inches in thickness. 



The Rev. Francis C. R. Jourdain contributes some ' Rough Notes on 

 Derbyshire Ornithology, 1902-3,' to the March 'Zoologist.' 



Prof. E. B. Poulton's presidential address to the Entomological Society, 

 entitled 'What is a Species?' is printed in the Society's Transactions just 

 issued. 



Mr. A. Smith, Grimsby, informs us that during the stormy weather of 

 Febr uary a Puftin was washed aboard one of the Grimsby trawlers when 

 near the H umber. 



The late Mr. Comber's collection of diatoms has been presented to the 

 British Museum by his widow. Mr, W. H. Pearson's collection of hepatics 

 h;is been purchased by the same institution. 



Among-st the names appearing in the list of Justices of the Peace for 

 IL-ilifax we are pleased to notice'that of Mr. J. H. Howarth, F.G.S., Hon. 

 Treasurer of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 



At a recent meeting of the Manchester Entomological Society Mr. B. H. 

 Crablree exhibited varieties of Odoiitopera bidcntata, ranging from very 

 pale forms to black, from South Manchester disti ict. 



In the NL'irch 'Entomologist' Mr. J. Arkle gives particulars of the 

 lepiilopleia captured during 'A Fortnight in Northumberland' in August 

 last. He- includes a list of the principal specimens in the collection of the 

 late I'Alwartl Pearson, of Wallinglon. 



In a recent issue of the 'Transactions of the Manchester Geological 

 Society" Mr. Henry Hall has a note on 'Abraded Coal, a New Theory 

 of the Formation of Coal.' From an observation made at a colliery near 

 Piescott. the author states 'it is clear that coal may be abraded by water, 

 and retoi ined again into a solid seam of pure coal in the course of half 

 a dozen \ ears.' 



NORTHERN NEWS. 



Naturalist, 



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