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Messrs. Wig-g-an 8i Lake, publishers, Louth, have issued a ' Popular 

 Guide' to the Louth District, at the low price of one penny, which will 

 doubtless do much to further the interests of natural science in that 

 interesting- locality. To this Mr. C. S. Carter contributes natural history 

 notes on various subjects. Valuable lists of mammals, birds, insects, etc., 

 are g-iven. Under the heading- 'Bug's' we find, 'Bugs! Yes, bugs; don't 



Hubbard's VaHey, Louth. 



be alarmed, air bug's, 7iot bed bug-s, of which, fortunately, I have no records 

 for Mablethorpe, but of 'air bugs' a specimen was captured in 1901 by 

 a visitor, and identified as Verlusia rhombea L. All the localities previously 

 g-iven for this insect were south of London.' The 'Guide' is illustrated by 

 various process blocks, one of which, representing a Lincolnshire 'beauty 

 spot,' we are permitted to reproduce. 







Mr. C. Crossland has issued amongst his mycological friends a limited 

 number of copies of 'The Fungus Flora of Halifax,' reprinted from 

 the recently - published 'Flora of Halifax.' The reprints have an 

 addition of two coloured plates and a preface. The plates contain 49 

 figures of important local fungi, and amongst them three are figured for the 

 first time, viz., Pocillum Needharni, Calonectria vermispora, and Dilophos- 

 pora albida. A copy has been placed in the Halifax^Public Library, where 

 it can be referred to. 







The thirty-third annual report of the Chester Society of Natural 

 Science, etc., for 1903-4, has just been issued. There is a net increase of 

 40 members during" the year, bringing the present membership to 1,011. 

 The report includes brief notes on 'An Unrecorded Cheshire Sandgrouse ' 

 and 'Red Necked Grebe in Cheshire,' by C. Oldham, and 'Notes on some 

 white eggs of the Waterhen,' by R. Newstead. There is also a report on 

 tihe Meteorology of Cheshire for 1903, by the Rev. J. C. Mitchell. 



1904 August I. 



