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NORTHERN NEWS. 



On Plate XVI., and on pag-e 217 in the July ' Naturalist or Charles 

 Street read James Street. 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester will preside at the meeting- of the British 

 Association at York next year. 



Mr. W. Mansbridg-e contributes a note on ' Tortrices in the Liverpool 

 District' to the April 'Entomologist.' 



A melanic form of Lareyitia multistrigaria is recorded at Birtley, 

 Durham (Entomolog-ists' Record, May). 



Mr. B. Hobson writes ' On a Displaced Mass of Chalk on the Foreshore 

 of Speeton Cliffs' in the June ' Geolog-ical Magazine." 



Mr. J. M. E. Bowley, who for twenty-five years has been curator of the 

 Sunderland Museum, is retiring" on account of ill-health. 



An example of early nesting" of the Dipper is recorded at Carlisle. Four 

 young" ones were hatched on 13th March ('Zoologist,' May). 



The Bradford Scientific Association has issued an attractive pamphlet 

 containing particulars of the ' Summer Excursions and Visits to Works, 

 1905.' 



The Manchester Microscopical Society continues to issue its useful 

 circulars, in which the work of the Society in its various branches is set 

 forth. 



Mr. Richard South will superintend the publication of the remaining 

 manuscript of the ' Lepidoptera of the British Islands,' by the late C. G. 

 Barrett. 



The 1904 (Cambridge) Report of the British Association has been 

 issued, and in its 1,132 pages contains much information of value to northern 

 naturalists. 



The 'Annual Rainfall Register at Podehole, Spalding, from 1829 to 1903,' 

 has been presented to the library of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society by 

 Mr. A. Harrison. 



A Sturgeon, weighing 16 stones, and measuring 8 ft. 10 in. in length, 

 <ind 37 in. in greatest circumference, was caught in the Ouse, near Goole, 

 on the 19th June. 



In the 'Strand Magazine' for May, Mr. E. J. Cornish has an admirable 

 Illustrated article on ' How the Birds Come,' which deals with the question 

 •of bird migration. 



Mr. A. Renton, of Otley, a sportsman and naturalist of some repute, 

 who had a large collection of stuffed birds and mammals, died on Saturday, 

 ■6th May, at the age of 55. 



The July ' Entomologists' Record' contains ' Notes on the Melanism of 

 Larentia multistrigaria in the Neighbourhood of Huddersfield,' by Mr. B. 

 Morley, to which the Editor adds a note. 



In the Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society for April-June 

 1904 (issued April 1905), Mr. H. C. Martin contributes an interesting paper 

 entitled ' The Isle of Man and its Beauty Spots.' 



The Bowes ]Museum, Barnard Castle, has recently been awarded 

 ^142,000 by the Court of Chancery. The ^Museum, which was foimded 

 in 1870, can now be completed and properly maintained. 



The 'South-Eastern Naturalist,' the annual organ of the ' Se^uth-Eastern 

 Union of Scientific Societies,' contains a ' List of Localities not recorded in 

 recent Floras of Kent and Surrey, for some comparatively rare plants ! ' 

 The localities are g-iven in detail. Evidently our southern contemporary 

 has every faith in its readers. 



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