NORTHERN NEWS. 



A Seal was cau^^ht at Kilnsea, East Yorkshire, on 27th August. 



'A fine female specimen' of Montagu's Harrier was shot by a game- 

 keeper on the moors of Coquetdale, in Northumberland, in August. 



Mr. W. Johnson, one of the founders of the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 Entomological Sociel}', died at Wigan in August. He was in his ninetieth 

 rear. 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, Director of the Natural History Museum, 

 South Kensington, has been elected President of the British Association 

 for 1906, and will preside at the York Meeting. 



The Rev. A. Thornley, M.A., F.L.S., has a paper on 'Nature Study, 

 Actual and Ideal,' in ' The Parents' Review,' recently issued. It was read 

 at the ninth annual conference of the Parents' National Educational Union. 



At Thurlby, in South Lincolnshire, a boring- has recently been put down 

 for water, which was struck at a depth of 117 feet. The water, which rises 

 25 feet into the air by the jjressure from below, flows ;it the rate of 170,000 

 gallons a day. 



According to the 'Yorkshire Post' 'a gardener at Wakefield has dis- 

 covered in his vinery at Wakefield a worm which is new to Yorkshire.' It 

 has been determined as ' a land planarian {Bipalium kervense) which was 

 first introduced to this country in the soil of foreign plants. . . . These 

 animals increase by means of eggs, and by breaking pieces off themselves.' 



We notice that the boatmen at Bridlington are complaining that in con- 

 sequence of the shooting of sea birds not starting till the first of September 

 there is not much to shoot — the result is that 'where they could earn a few 

 shillings taking out shooting parties they are now barred.' If this is the 

 only drawback naturalists will not be sorry — possibly the Bridlington boat- 

 men will be able to earn the ' few shillings ' in a better way. 



Amongst the papers in the 'Annual Report and Transactions of the 

 Manchester Microscopical Society for 1904,' just issued, are the following : 

 ' Micro-organisms associated with Disease,' by Prof. S. J. Hickson ; ' Way- 

 side Plants,' by W. H. Pepworth ; 'Notes on the Radiolaria,' by Rev. T. 

 Robinson ; ' The Micro-Flora and Fauna of our wells and surface troughs,' 

 by J. E. Lord ; ' Further Notes on Arboreal Insects,' by A. T. Gillanders ; 

 and 'The Microscope as an aid to the Identification of Poisons,' by 

 C. Turner. 



Mr. Walter Garstang's presidential address to the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society, entitled 'The Natural History of the North Sea,' 

 appears in that Society's 'Transactions' (Vol. 8, Part i) just issued. 

 Mr. T. Southwell, F.Z.S., also writes 'On Migration other than of Birds, 

 with special reference to the cetacea.' Of particular interest to our 

 Lincolnshire readers is a paper in the same volume by Mr. Arthur Bennett, 

 on the ' Distribution of Sonchiis pahistris L. and Atriplex pedunculata L. in 

 England.' Arthur Young- saw the Sonchus in the East Fen when staying- 

 with Sir Joseph Banks at Revesby Abbey in 1799. It now seems to be 

 quite extinct in the county. 



The North Eastern Railway Company appear to lose no opportunity of 

 drawing attention to the many charming- districts which are served by its 

 lines. Towards this end a number of lantern lectures have been prepared, 

 and may be obtained, together with the illustrative lantern slides, from the 

 Chief Passenger Agent's office at York. The lectures deal witli the (a) 

 Yorkshire coast, (b) Tynedale and Northumberland coast, (c) Teesdale and 

 Lake district, (d) Wharfedale, Nidderdale, and Wensleydale, (e) York, 

 Rievaulx, Richmond, Swaledale, and Durham. The accompanying letter- 

 press has been written by Rev. John Ouine. The lantern slides are from 

 photographs, and will be found most useful to Natural History Societies, etc. 



Natui-alist, 



