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NORTHERN NEWS. 



An earthquake was distinctly felt in many parts of Yorkshire early on 

 Sunday morning-, 23rd April. 



Mr. A. Deane, of the Warring-ton Museum, has been appointed curator 

 of the Public Museum, Belfast. 



Mr. T. W. Woodhead, of Huddersfield, has left England for Zurich and 

 will probably remain abroad about fifteen months. His object is to make 

 investig-ations on the ecolog'}" of the flora of the Alps with Prof. C. Schroter. 



Miss Jessie L. M. Bird, of 4, Riversdale Road, Aig-burth, Liverpool, is 

 the secretary of the section of the Liverpool Kyrle Society org-anised for the 

 distribution of flowers to elementary schools in poor districts, to be used 

 for decorative and educational purposes. The society appears to be doing- 

 good work. 



The Bradford Scientific Association has a number of ' Sectional Com- 

 mittees,' each of which has set itself certain problems to solve. Under the 

 head of ' Anthropolog-y ' we notice that 'The Yorkshireman in particular 

 will be analysed, dissected [!]. and studied in all the many phases which he 

 exhibits to an admiring- world.' 



It is pleasant to notice that articles on natural history subjects are 

 becoming much more frequent in our daily and weekly ne\\spapers, as well 

 as in the monthly periodicals. We have recently received several issues of 

 the 'Morning Leader,' in which illustrated articles dealing with bird life, 

 etc., occupy a prominent place. 



' On Some Early Dutch and Eng-llsh Decoys' is the title of an interesting- 

 paper by Mr. Thos. Southwell, F.Z.S., in the 'Transactions of the Norfolk 

 and Norwich Naturalists' Society,' recently issued. The same publication 

 contains Mr. Arthur Bennett's valuable notes ' On Carex paradoxa and 

 Lastrea cristata in Britain.' 



There has been an outcry at Filey on account of the Lord of the Manor 

 removing- vast quantities of stone from Filey Brig- for the purpose of road 

 making on a new building- estate which he is developing. Cartloads of 

 stone have been broken from the_ ridg-es and carried away. Such a pro- 

 cedure is certainly calculated to assist the sea in its work on the east coast. 



The boring- tool lost in the boring- at Lincoln in November 1903, at a 

 depth of 860 feet, has now been recovered by sinking a shaft 9 feet wide to 

 a depth of 862 feet. The boring will eventually reach to a depth of 

 2^0D0 feet, and will be the deepest in the United Kingdom. It is to be 

 hoped that the water supply of Lincoln will then be of a more satisfactory 

 character than the present one. 



Mr. Robert Service, of Dumfries, reprints from the Transactions of the 

 Natural Histor}^ Society of Glasgow a paper on 'The Sylviidse of Solwa}',' 

 or, as he prefers to call them, the warblers of the Solway. His paper 

 contains copious notes on the following nine species : — Whitethroat, Garden 

 Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Wood Warbler, Willow Warbler, 

 Chiffchaff, Sedg-e Warbler, and Grasshopper Warbler. 



At a meeting of the Geological Society of London, some little time ago, 

 Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., exhibited a specimen oi Fayolia near to Fayolia 

 grandis, found by Dr. L. Moysey, of Notting-ham, in the Coal Measures of 

 Ilkeston (Derbyshire). He pointed out that Fayolia was first described by 

 Profs. Renault and Zeiller in 18S4, in their monograph on the ' Houiller de 

 Commentry.' In August 1894, Mr. Seward described the first British 

 specimen, from Northumberland, in 'The Naturalist,' but thought that it 

 was not a plant. There was some resemblance to certain spiral egg-cases 

 of Elasmobranchs ; but Dr. Giinther was unwilling to accept the Northum- 

 berland fossil as the egg-case of a fish. There is still uncertainty as to the 

 exact nature of this fossil. 



Naturalist, 



