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states that it has also been taken ' 70-80 miles east by north of 

 the mouth of the Humber (Stebbing).' In February 1903 three 

 specimens from Mr. Nelson were sent to me which I forwarded 

 to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, as I had no 

 description of the species. These were returned unnamed, with 

 the information that ' the trustees do not approve of the time 

 of the assistants being taken up by determining badly-preserved 

 specimens of common objects of the shore.' It is quite probable 

 they did not possess a British example of this species. There 

 is apparently no explanation of its periodic occurrence on the 

 Yorkshire coast in such quantity. — T. Fetch, Hedon. 



Euthemisto compressa at Redcar. — At the request of Mr. 

 T. H. Nelson I send you herewith specimens of this crustacean, 

 which was cast up in enormous quantity on the sands at Redcar 

 on Tuesday, 8th March. — (Canon) A. M. Norman, Berkhamsted, 

 Herts. 



NORTHERN NEWS. 



There are various notes on the shells of Lancashire and Cheshire in the 

 April 'Journal of Concholog-y. ' 



Montag^u's Sucker {Liparis montagui) is recorded at Scarborough by 

 Mr. W. J. Clarke in the April ' Zoolog-ist.' 



Dr. W. E. Hoyle has just issued a third edition of his penny ' Handy 

 Guide" to the Manchester Museum. Owens CoUeg-e. 



The fiftieth anniversary of Sir H. E. Roscoe's graduation at Heidelberg 

 was celebrated at Manchester on the 22nd of April. 



Mr. John Postlethwaite, of Keswick, has presented his collection of 

 fossils from the Skiddaw Slates to the British Museum (Natural History). 



Mr. A. Burnet gives some localities for chalk fossils in North Lincoln- 

 shire, and traces out some of the zones, in the April ' Geological Magazine.' 



Mr. T. Barker has a note on Tortida rigida and T. brevirostris in the 

 'Revue Bryologique,' No. 2, 1904, in which it is suggested that they may 

 really be varieties of the same species. 



The Salford Corporation propose to transfer the scientific collections in 

 the Peel Park Museum to a building at Brill Hill, which will answer the 

 purpose of a museum and refreshment room. 



On the invitation of the Executive Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.G.S., of H.M. Geological Survey, has 

 accepted the Presidency of the Union for 1905. 



' From a Solway Notebook ' is the title of an interesting paper by 

 Mr. Robert Service, M.B.O.U., in the April 'Annals of Scottish Natural 

 History.' He treats of the effect of the weather of 1903 upon the mammals, 

 birds, and fish of the district. 



The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers 

 has just issued a 'Subject-matter Index' of mining, etc., literature for 1901, 

 under the editorship of Mr. M. Walter Brown. Nearly a thousand publica- 

 tions have been searched in connection with this work. 



1904 May I. 



