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Northern News. 



A new edition of the well-known ' Eyes and No Eyes,' by A. B. Buckley 

 (Mrs. Fisher) has just been published by Messrs. Cassell & Co., and can be 

 strong-ly recommended as a suitable g"ift for an intellig-ent child. It is 



Feet of Birds. — i. Bird of prey— Eag-le. 2. Web-footed — Goose. 3. Scratching — Pheasant. 

 4. Climbing-— Woodpecker. 5 and 6. Perching — Missel-Thrush and Lark. 



illustrated by no fewer than 48 coloured plates and other illustrations — one 

 of which latter, reproduced herewith, may be looked upon as i-epresentative. 

 The coloured plates are usually g-ood — some are very tine indeed. The 

 separate pag-ins^ of the various six ' books ' in the volume is a little confusing-. 



NORTHERN NEWS. 



'A Sig-n of the Times. — A chinxh has been converted into a museum 

 under municipal control at King-"s Lynn ' (' Museums Journal '). 



The annual meeting- of the Barrow Naturalists' Field Club, recently 

 held, showed that this society, established 28 years ago. had touched hig-h- 

 water mark, as regards membership and financial position The member- 

 ship is now over 300 ; 70 new members had been elected during- the year, 

 and the accounts show a balance in hand of Mr. M. Stables was 



elected president for the ensuing- year. 



The borings for coal at Benniworth, near Louth, has been abandoned, at 

 any rate for the present. It commenced in Kimerldge clay, which contains 

 bands of inflammable shale, which possibly explains the reason for the 

 bore. Great secrecy has been observed in reference to the boring, and 

 g-eologists were not permitted to g-et any particulars. The probability is 

 that had a reliable geologist been consulted much expense would have 

 been saved. 



In a ' Note on the Submerg-ed Forest and Peat Beds at Redcar,' pub- 

 lished in the Cleveland Club's Report (see p. 161), Mr. H. Simpson states — 

 'At Seaton Carew, I am informed, the submarine peat peds have yielded 

 ♦antlers of the Irish Elk and a tusk of the Mammoth.' It would be interest- 

 ing to g-et moi-e details of the latter discovery, as so far we are .without 

 evidence of Mammoth remains in the peat of the East Coast. (See 'The 

 Naturalist,' April 1904, p. 102.) 



3 btH iyu4 Naturalist, 



