Northern Xents. 



June 1904 was fig-ured a specimen caug'ht at the mouth of the 

 Tyne a year previously. 



I have kept a record of the Cetaceans that have come under 

 my notice as visiting- the Humber and Ouse. Porpoises are 

 common. A Rudolph's Rorqual [BnlcE7ioptera horealis) was 

 captured at Goole on the 5th of September 1884. It was 

 35 feet 6 inches in length and weighed <^y^ tons. The skeleton 

 is now in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 

 A Lesser Rorqual [^Balcenoptera rostrata) was found dead in the 

 Ouse near Swinefleet in January 1902. Its baleen was white. 

 It was promptly seized by H.M. Customs, but proved to be 

 a ' white elephant,' and they were glad to get it buried. About 

 43 years ago an enormous shoal of Pilot Whales [Globicephahis 

 melas) visited the Humber.'-'' Twenty-five came up as far as 

 Goole, of which 23 were captured. 



In 1881 a Bottle-nose Dolphin [Delphinus titrsio) was 

 stranded at Goole Ness. The only specimen of the Grampus 

 (Orca gladiator) I have recorded (already referred to) was taken 

 in the Humber about i '84, the skeleton of which is now in the 

 South Kensington Museum. 



$ 1 



In the entomological collections of the late Philip B. Mason, of Burton- 

 on-Trent. recently disposed of by auction at Stevens' Rooms, were some 

 types and other specimens from the collection of Adrian Hardy Haworth, 

 author of ' Lepidoptera Britannica.' 



Reprints of Mr. C. Oldham's papers, ' On Some Habits of Bats, with 

 Special Reference to the Lesser Horseshoe Bat,' and 'On the Occurrence 

 in Britain of the Pacific Eider' are sold at the rooms of the Manchester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society at one shilling; each. 



The thirty-fourth annual report of the Sheffield Naturalists' Club contains 

 a record of prog-ress during- the year. The botanical section has taken the 

 first steps towards making- a full and careful investig-ation of the plant life 

 of the district. The g-eolog-ical section also g-ives evidence of a desire to 

 accomplish some substantial work. The entomolog-ists record a specimen 

 of the Early Thorn Moth {Selenia illimarice) at Wharncliffe. This species 

 has not been seen in the district for many years. We should also like to 

 cong-ratulate the society and its printer on the amount of matter they can g et 

 on the four pag-es comprising- the annual report. The type, however, 

 mig^ht with advantag-e have been a little less microscopic in size, and thus 

 have prevented numerous typog-raphical errors. And a society which can 

 spend ^30 on a conv-ersazione, vote ^25 to the University, in addition to 

 ordinary expenses, and then have a balance in hand, oug-ht to do more than 

 print these four pag-es once a year. We hope the g-eological section will 

 be sufficiently strong- next year to insist upon at any rate the publication of 

 the bibliog-raphy they are compiling, which should be a very useful piece 

 of work. 



* See 'Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club,' 

 Vol. L, Part I., 1898, pp. 1-9; and \'ol. L, Part H., 1899, pp. 37-39. 



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