92 Northern News. 



Birds in their Seasons. By J. A. Owen. Geo. Routledge & Son, 

 Ltd. 1904. 



In this little book the author g^ives a pleasant account of the more 

 familiar of our British birds. It is arranged into four parts, representing- 

 the seasons in which the descriptions of the birds appear. Such an artificial 

 classification is somewhat unfortunate, as necessarily some species are 

 included under one head, which might equally well occur under others. 

 The volume is attractive in appearance, is printed with fairly large type, 

 and is illustrated by a number of coloured plates ; some, however, being 

 rather g-audy. The book is cheap at half a crown. 



NORTHERN NEWS. 



We have pleasure in calling- attention to the advertisement on the cover 

 of this journal relating- to an important work on Vegetable Histology by 

 Mr. Abraham Flatters. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett contributes to the ' Annals of Scottish Natural 

 History,' October 1904 and January 1905, No. IV. of his 'Contributions 

 toward a Flora of Caithness.' 



Another Manchester society, the ' Manchester University Geologists' 

 Association,' has been formed. Prof. Boyd Dawkins is the first president, 

 and Mr. W. J. Hall secretary. 



It is with deep regret we have to record the death on Monday, 20th 

 February, of Mr. Alfred Beaumont, of Halstead, Essex, formerly of 

 Huddersfield. We hope to give a detailed notice in our next issue. 



Mr. G. E. Mitchell sends us a photograph of a portion of Alder trunk 

 with a stone embedded in the centre. The tree, about 140 years old, was 

 grown in Shropshire and felled in 1901. The specimen was shown at the 

 recent exhibition in connection with the annual meeting of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union at Leeds. 



Part II. of 'The Jurassic Flora' (Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in 

 Department of Geology, British Museum) by Mr. A. C. Seward, F.R.S., 

 has recently been issued by the British Museum. In addition to the 

 examples in the National Collection, reference is made to the more impor- 

 tant specimens in other museums. Amongst the latter are several from the 

 Coralline Oolite and Liassic Strata of East Yorkshire. 



In a valuable paper on ' The Yoredale Rocks and their Commercial 

 Deposits' in the recently-issued ' Transactions of the Weardale Naturalists' 

 Field Club,' Mr. M. Lee gives the following- curious 'quarrymen's geological 

 section ' of the strata exposed at Frosterby and Stanhope in Weardale. 

 The quarrymen know each particular bed or ' post,' and can readily identify 

 it, even from hand specimens :— 





ft. 



in. 





ft. 



in. 



Fine Posts 



... 31 



0 



Dun Kit 



4 



0 



Toby 



I 



8 



Bastards 



3 



6 



Crabby... 



8 



0 



Dun Gin 



2 



6 



Scraps ... 



2 



0 



Stiff Dick 



I 



6 



Elsie 



I 



9 



Weallies 



3 



4 



Thin Cockle . . . 



0 



10 



Jack Post 



0 



4 



Thick Cockle... 



I 



4 



Yard Post 





9 



Black Beds ... 



3 



10 



Newcastle Post 



I 



0 



Five Thinnings 



2 



0 



Bottom Post ... 



I 



8 



The Corporation of Bradford has recently acquired the collection of 

 plants and botanical books formed hy Mr. F. A. Lees, author of ' The Flora 

 of West Yoi-kshire,' published some years ago by the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union. The herbarium contains over 20,000 specimens, and will be an 

 admirable botanical nucleus for the natural history section of the Cartwriglit 

 Memorial Museum. 



Naturalist, 



