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NORTHERN NEWS. 



Mr. G. A. Dunlop has been appointed assistant at the Keig-hley Museum. 



Mr. C. Crossland gives an interesting- Ant and Caterpillar story in 



* Nature Notes ' for October. 



Mr. Arthur Smith has a short note on the Botany of a piece of waste 

 ground in 'Nature Study ' for October. 



Mr. H. Slater (Helmsley) has an article on 'Edible Fungi' in the 

 ^Journal of Agriculture and Cottage Gardener' for 15th September. 



An excellent portrait of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker appears in the 



* Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glasgow,' Vol. 6, Pt. 3. 



Mr. George Massee, F.L.S., has an article on 'The Influence of Fungi 

 or Birds on Other Forms of Life ' in ' Knowledge and Scientific News ' for 

 October. 



At a recent meeting- of the Darlington and Teesdale Naturahsts' Field 

 Club a presentation was made to Mr. Georg^e Best in recognition of his 

 thirteen years' services as secretary. 



A photog-raph of a group of the Museum Curators assembled at the 

 Norwich Conference appears as frontispiece to the Aug-ust ' Museums 

 Journal.' Several north country museums are represented. 



In the 'Records of the Australian Museum' (Vol. 5, No. 4, 1904) Mr. 

 Edgar R. Waite has some ' New Records or Recurrences of Rare Fishes 

 from Eastern Australia, No. 3,' which is illustrated by plates. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt contributes ' Odonata, etc., in the Norfolk Broads' 

 to the October ' Entomolog-ist.' In the same journal a capture of Lygris 

 [Cidaria] reticulata is recorded as captured near Lake Windermere on 

 July 30th. 



An admirable portrait of Mr. Wilfred H. Hudleston appears in the Septem- 

 ber 'Geological Magazine,' prefacing- an article dealing- with his work. 

 Hudleston is well known to Yorkshiremen by reason of his excellent work 

 among-st the Oolitic rocks of the county. 



' Mig-ration of Birds in North-east Lincolnshire in the autumn of 1903 ' is 

 the title of a paper by G. H. Caton Haigh in the August 'Zoologist.' In 

 the same journal is a note on a hitherto unrecorded specimen of a Kite, 

 killed at Milling-ton, Cheshire, in 'the forties' ; and a Night-Heron, shot at 

 New^ton-le-Willows, Lancashire, some 'ten or twelve years ag;o.' 



Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne discusses some important questions in nomen 

 clature in the October 'Journal of Concholog^y.' In the same periodical 

 Mr. W. Denison Roebuck has a note on ' The Re-establishment of Limax 

 tenellus as a British Species,' as described in our last number. Mr. Roebuck 

 also has a paper on the same subject in the 'Annals of Scottish Natural 

 History ' for October. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. John W. Carter, of Bradford. 

 Mr. Carter was a native of Huddersfield, was one of the founders of the 

 Bradford Naturalists' Society in 1875, and w^as its first president. He was 

 for many years a member of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and frequently 

 contributed to this journal. His death occurred soniewhat suddenly, in his 

 seventy-sixth year. 



We are pleased to note that through the generosity of the Hon. Mrs. 

 Carpenter, of Kiplin, Northallerton (sister of Lord Walsingham, a former 

 president of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union), the Museum of the Technical 

 College, Huddersfield, has recently been enriched by the collection of 

 British Lepidoptera formed by that lady. With the collection, Mrs. 

 Carpenter very kindly presented to the Colleg-e a considerable number 

 of her entomological books. 



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