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Northern News. 



Mons. E. Margier has an interesting note, ' Sur la Pupa anglica, type 

 de la faune dite Lusitanienne,' in ' La Feuille Des Jeunes Naturalistes ' for 

 Alarch. 



A floating- triangular breakwater, weighing seven tons, has been put on 

 the shore at Hornsea, opposite the Marine Drive, in the hope of checking 

 the inroads of the sea. 



Mr. R. S. Bagnall has a note on ' Chrysomela orichalcia Mull., van 

 hobsoni Steph., in the Northumberland and Durham District,' in the 

 ' Entomologist's Record ' for March. 



In the February ' Geological Magazine ' Mr. G. C. Crick describes a 

 fragment of a Nantiloid, Cyrtoceras [Meloceras] apicale, from the Carboni- 

 ferous Limestone of Kniveton, Derbyshire. 



Mr. T. A. Coward has notes ' On some habits of Natterer's Bat ' in the 

 ' Zoologist ' recently issued. These are based upon observations on a 

 specimen sent from Barnsley (see 'The Naturalist,' Feb. 1905, p. 37-39). 



' Goole and Thorne Moors ' is the title of a paper by Mr. G. E. Bunker 

 in ' Nature Study ' for January. The same ground was covered bv the 

 writer's father, Mr. Thos. Bunker, in the 'Transactions of the Hull Scientific 

 and Field Naturalists' Club' for 1898. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs contributes notes on the ' Lepidoptera of the Lincoln- 

 shire Coast [Theddlethorpe St. Helen] ' to the March ' Entomologist.' The 

 same journal contains the first part of * A List of the ' Macro-Lepidoptera ' 

 of Lancashire and District' by Mr. C. H. Forsythe. 



The paper on ' Coast Erosion ' by Mr. A. E. Carey, and ' Erosion on the 

 Holderness Coast of Yorkshire ' by Mr. E. R. Matthews, with abstracts 

 of the discussions upon the papers, have been reprinted from the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers,' and occupy over a hundred 

 pages. 



The ' Leek Post ' for February 4th contains ' A List of Carboniferous 

 Limestone Fossils (chiefly shells), recently arranged and enlarged. Pre- 

 sented to the Nicholson Institute by Sir Thomas Wardle, F.G.S.' It 

 occupies over three columns, and enumerates 278 specimens. They are 

 from the Carboniferous Limestone of North Staffordshire. 



The herbarium recently purchased froni Dr. F. A. Lees by the Bradford 

 Corporation contains from 15,000 to 20,000 specimens, only one species 

 in the British flora [Epipoguvi aphyllnm) being wanting. The botanical 

 library, also purchased, includes over 200 ' Floras ' and ' Catalogues ' of 

 local areas. The price paid for the plants and books was £\'^o. 



The excursions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union for 1905 are as 

 under : — 



May 6th. — Ripon. 



June ioth-i2th (Whit week-end). — Leyburn. 

 July Sth.— Loftus. 



August 5th-7th (Bank Holiday week-end). — Pocklington. 

 September 9th. — Cud worth. 



September 22nd-28th. — Fungus Foray. Roche Abbey and ]\Ialtb_v 

 Woods. 



W^e regret to record the death of the Rev. F. O. Pickard-Cambridg-e, 

 who has clone so much in furtherance of the study of the arachnid^e. Man}- 

 of our readers are indebted to him for valuable assistance. His interest in 

 spiders commenced when he was a boy, and at the time of his death he 

 was unquestionably the leading authority on the subject. In 1904 he 

 completed a Monograph of the Central American Spiders. He has left 

 unfinished the county records he was preparing- for the 'Victoria History,' 

 and also his revision of the generic nomenclature of spiders. It is con- 

 sidered that overwork was the primary cause of his death. He was 



Naturalist, 



