NORTHERN NEWS. 



Dr. F. Cavers has a paper ' On the Structure and Development of 

 Monoclea Forsleri' in 'Revue Bryologique,' 1904, No. 4. 



Mr. W. Ackroyd (Halifax) contributes a paper to the 'Transactions of 

 the Chemical Society,' July 1904, entitled, ' The Action of Radium Rays on 

 the Halides of the Alkali Metals and Analoo:ous Heat Effects.' 



The first volume of 'A Monog-raph of the British Desmidiacese,' bv 

 W. West, F.L.S., and G. S. West, M.A., F.L.S., has just been issued by 

 the Ray Society. It is illustrated by 32 plates, mostly coloured. 



In the recently-issued 'Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society ' (Vol. 7, Part 5) Mr. Arthur Bennett has a paper on 

 ' The Distribution of Carex paradoxa and Lastrea cristata in Britain. 



On the excursion of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union to Hebden Bridge 

 in June, Mr. W. E. L. Wattam foimd a lichen {Pannelia piyiiiiforinis) new 

 to the district. Strangely enough the record first appears in another 

 periodical. 



'A List of West Lancashire Lichens,' by J. A. Wheldon and A. Wilson, 

 appears in the 'Journal of Botany' for September. The only previousl}-- 

 published records appear to be in 'The Naturalist' for 1881, and in 

 Leighton's ' Lichen Flora,' Ed. III. 



A valuable paper on ' The Palaeontology of the Lancashire Coal 

 Measures, with especial reference to the Collections in the Manchester 

 Museum,' by Mr, H. Bolton, appears in the ' Transactions of the Man- 

 chester Geolog-ical and Mining- Society,' Part 4, V^ol. 28, 1904. 



In 'The Report of the Southport Meeting of the British Association' 

 ^Ir. P. F. Kendall gives a valuable summary of records of erratic blocks 

 ■contained in the reports from 1873 to 1903. In this an alphabetical list 

 appears from which i'. is easily ascertained what records have been made 

 at any given place. 



^Ir. G. T. Porritt points out (in the September 'Entomologist') that 

 Xothocliiysa capitata is not quite so rare as a previous writer supposes. 

 Mr. Porritt has examples from Castle Howard, Doncaster, Huddersfield, 

 Selby, Skipwith, and York, also from Lincolnshire. Possibh^ it occurs 

 more frequently in Yorkshire than in the southern counties. 



A propos of our recent remarks on the nature of Government publica- 

 tions ('Naturalist,' May, p. 134) we notice the following- description of a 

 British Geological Survey Memoir given by Sir Arch. Geikie in his recent 

 address to the Geolog-ical Society : — ' An official pamphlet composed of 

 flimsy paper, badly printed perhaps with old broken type, and sold not 

 infrequently at a prohibitive price.' 



]\Ir. Francis J. Lew'is, F.L.S., makes another valuable contribution to 

 the Botanical Survey of the North of England in a paper in the September 

 niuiiber of the ' Geog-raphical Journal " (pp. 267-285) on the 'Geographical 

 Distribution of Vegetation on the Basins of the Rivers Eden, Tees, Wear, 

 and Tyne.' The paper is accompanied b}- an excellent map and fourteen 

 illustrations in the text. 



That nature study is doing good in East Yorkshire was amplv proved at 

 the recent flower sliow at Wooelmance}-, near Bevcrle^■, when prizes were 

 given for the grealesl number of wild flowers coi-rectl}- named, etc. These 

 were mosil\- exliiliited by children from the \\'oodniancey School, where 

 the scholars ai'c taught the English names only and are expected to 

 riMnember the localities in which they find the specimens. During the past 

 \ I'ar over 200 species have been gathered, which have been pressed b\' the 

 schoolmastei-, Mr. Affleck, and mounted by the children. At the flower 

 show one scholar had 112 different species eoi i-eetl}- named. 



Naturalist, 



5 OCT 1904 



