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NORTHERN NEWS. 



The death is announced of Lieut. -Colonel L. H, L. Iiby, author of the 



* Key List of British Birds,' and of Sir Bernard Samuelson, F.R.S., one ot 

 the pioneers of the Cleveland iron trade. 



Mr. E. T. Newton, F. R.S., has retired from his position as palaeontologist 

 to H.M. Geological Survey, after a distinguished service extending over 

 forty years. Dr. F. L. Kitchin has been appointed to succeed him. 



We are pleased to learn that Mr. Porritt, for many years connected with 



* The Naturalist ' as entomolog'ical referee, has been appointed on the 

 editorial staff of the 'Entomologists' Monthly Magazine,' in place of the 

 late C. G. Barratt. We also learn that the same g-entleman has enriched 

 the national collection of British Lepidoptera by a number of specimens 

 from the Huddersfield district. 



The Bradford Corporation has acquired the collection of pre-historic 

 remains formed by Mr. W. Cudworth, of that city. It consists of imple- 

 ments of the Eolithic, Palaeolithic, and Neolithic periods. Amongst the 

 last-named are many flint weapons from the Yorkshire Wolds and the 

 moorlands near Bradford, and a few bronze axes found near Bradford. 

 There is also a case containing the remains of extinct mammalia, from the 

 Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire. 



Referring to the remarks in this journal for June in reference to cinerary 

 urns in general and the one recently found near Bradford in particular, we 

 find that in 'Yorkshire Notes and Queries' for July 1904 there is a cinerary 

 urn figured (p. 109) which is almost identical as regards the ornamentation, 

 with the vase found on Baildon Moor. It was found on Barnside Common, 

 near Midhope. As in the case of the Bradford urn, the upper portion, or 

 collar, is ornamented by triangular areas of cord impressions, the middle 

 belt has scratches upon it, herring-bone fashion, and the lower portion is 

 plain. With it was found an 'incense cup.' Both vessels are figured in 

 Mr. J. Kenworthy's notes on the ' Antiquities of Bolderstone and Neigh- 

 bourhood.' 



From a number of the ' Geelong Naturalist,' the quarterly journal of the 

 Geelong Naturalists' Club (Australia), we are gkid to g-ather news of Mr. 

 W. Denison Roebuck, in the following paragraph : — 'At the meeting of the 

 club on the 2nd inst. [December] our member, Mr. H. G. Roebuck, intro- 

 duced as a visitor his relative, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, a former editor 

 of ' The Naturalist' (one of the oldest scientific periodicals in the British 

 Isles). Mr. Roebuck, who was associated with Mr. J. W. Taylor in com- 

 piling a census of the British Land and Freshwater Shells, ' a monument of 

 valuable labour,' would be glad of the assistance of some of our local 

 naturalists in procuring him examples of the British mollusca that have 

 established themselves on Australian soil.' All readers of this journal will 

 wish Mr. Roebuck and his sister good health in their ramble round our 

 planet. 



The scientific reporter is an almost new phenomenon, and a terrible 

 development of modern industry. ' He regardeth not wliat he heareth, 

 and understandeth it not, but goeth on his way rejoicings' though his 

 readers do not. We cut a typical example from a local paper of wide 

 circulation: — ^' Mr. J. Larder (of Louth) exhibited specimens of a rare 

 Buttercup, viz., Dove's Foot Geranium.' No doubt the writer refers to 

 Mr. Larder's discovery of Rayiuncnhis sardoiis on the Purple Boulder Clay. 

 Certainly a good find in the neig'hbourhood of Louth. He also probably 

 meant to say that Mr. Larder was lecturing on the specific characteristics 

 of our common GemiiiiDus, and produced the Dove's Foot {G, dissectum) as 

 an example. Similarly, in a local paper purchased by the members of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Askrigg, the column devoted to ' Nature 

 Notes' gave the news that ' The Primus niger. — The bud cherry has been 

 very full of blossom this year in^^^AV'harfe Valley.' 



"Naturalist, 



