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NORTHERN NEWS. 



Some Anglo-Saxon cinerary urns found at Newark some years ago are 

 figured and described by Mr. T. Sheppard in the ' Antiquary ' for May, 



Our readers will be glad to learn that Mr. Harold Wager was elected 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society at a meeting of that body held on 5th May. 



The Bradford Scientific Association has issued an attractive 8 pp. 

 pamphlet, giving particulars of the ' Summer Excursions and Visits to 

 Works, 1904." 



The Corporation of Halifax has purchased the collection of birds 

 formerly in the possession of the late Mr. J. Cunningham, curator of the 

 Halifax Museum. 



We are glad to hear that the Royal Society's grant has been renewed 

 for this vear towards a Botanical Survey of Somerset now being carried on 

 by Mr. C. E. Moss, B.Sc. 



Illustrations of a British cist, and a vase found inside it, recently 

 -excavated on the crest of Brandon Hill, Durham, appear in the ' Daily 

 Graphic' for 22nd April. 



The City of Leeds Education Committee held a geographical exhibition 

 in the Pupil Teachers' College, Leeds, from 23rd April to 3rd May. The 

 exhibition consisted of maps, models, globes, charts, etc., and the public 

 were admitted free. 



At the annual meeting of the Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists' Field 

 Club, held recently. Councillor E. Wooler was elected president. This 

 club, which was established 13 years ago by the late Dr. Manson, has 

 a membership of 71. 



In the April 'Journal of the Quekett Club' Mr. D. J. Scourfield gives 

 Part III. of his ' Synopsis of the Known Species of British Freshwater 

 Entomostraca.' This instalment includes the Ostracoda, Phyllopoda, and 

 Branchiura, and includes several northern records. 



Mr, Eli Sowerbutts, a familiar figure at the meetings of the British 

 Association, and one of the founders of the Manchester Geographical 

 Society, died on Saturday, 30th April, He was born in 1834, He was 

 latterly in business in Manchester, and at one time w^as at Huddersfield, 



At the recent annual meeting of the Leeds Co-operative Field Club it 

 was reported that the Club's high position, educationally and financially, 

 had been maintained. Forty-two meetings had been held during the year, 

 and 18 lectures had been delivered. Mr. B. Holgate was re-elected 

 President. 



In the May number of the 'Geographical Journal' (pp. 660-671) is 

 a valuable paper on the ' Peat Moors of the Pennines : their Age, Origin, 

 and Utilisation, by C. E. Moss, B.Sc, being a paper read before Section E 

 at the meeting of the British Association, Southport, 1903. The paper is 

 illustrated by nine excellent photog-raphs of moorland veg-etation, taken by 

 Mr. W. B. Crump, M.A. (Halifax), and there are three diagrams in the text. 



We regret to record the death of Samuel H. Hudson, of Epworth, on 

 the 7th of April. He was a fine example of the labouring-man naturalist ; 

 showing at once the widest sympathies with nature in the best sense, and 

 the dinicuhy of working without books and a proper training. He was 

 over 77 yoars of age, and so was a youth before the advent of village 

 schools. Nviih no e(.lui.-at ion oxcept what his own industry and native talent 

 had str'iMMi tor. A naUn al ^it't for quick and minute observation was highly 

 developtxl in him. Ho either added or proveti the following species to 

 be still into^xMs ot the Lincolnshire flora : — ThaJictrimi coUi>iu)n , Erodiuni 

 niosrhai II III , Andromeda PolifoUa^ Set aria veri irillata , and Pliegopteris 

 Dryopteris. He was iho last worker who took Xlsionades seuiiarg-us. 



Naturalist, 



7 JUN. 1904 



