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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



MALTON NATURALISTS. 

 We have just received the 'Twenty-first Report of the 

 Malton Field NaturaHsts' and Scientific Society for the years 

 1900-1904.'''^ It contains a Hst of the lectures delivered during 

 that period, as well as the balance-sheets, from which latter it 

 would appear that, notwithstanding- the small membership, the 

 society is well able to pay its way, and leave a very substantial 

 balance in the hands of its treasurer. There are abstracts of 

 lectures and a ' presidential address,' which, from its nature and 

 subject, we could easily identify a well-known Wetwang worthy 

 as its author, though this is not stated. Attention is drawn 

 in the report to the crowded state of the society's Museum, 

 respecting which Dr. Smith Woodward wrote : — ' Among the 

 local Museums of recent foundation, it would be difficult to find 

 one of more scientific interest and importance.' We should like 

 to see the valuable collections of local geological specimens and 

 antiquities in this Museum preserved in a suitable public building 

 at Malton, and maintained at the public expense. 



CLEVELAND NATURALISTS. 

 The ' Proceedings of the Cleveland Naturalists' Field Club, 

 1903-4, Vol. 2, Part i,'t are also to hand. As a frontispiece is 

 a photograph of the late Rev. J. Hawell — a genuine ' guide, 

 philosopher, and friend' to the Cleveland Club, which is followed 

 by a lengthy and appreciative memoir. The society and its 

 editor are to be congratulated upon the local character and 

 value of the papers printed. In addition to the item already 

 referred to are the following : — ' History of Easby,' by the late 

 Rev. J. Hawell ; ' Crossbill in Cleveland ' and ' Buzzards on the 

 North East Coast,' by F. R. Atkinson ; ' Excursion to Redcar 

 Rocks,' by H. Simpson; 'Black Rat at Middlesbrough' and 

 ' Cleveland Lepidoptera in 1903-4,' by T. A. Lofthouse ; ' Monu- 

 mental Brasses of Cleveland,' by T. M. Fallow ; ' Gravel Deposit 

 in Lonsdale,' by F. Elgee ; 'Cleveland Coleoptera,' by M. L. 

 Thompson ; ' Meteorological Record,' by C. L. Bell, as well as 

 the Secretary's report and ' In Memoriam ' notices of the late 

 Robert George Clayton and Angus Macpherson. There are, 

 however, far too many misprints, and w^e do not welcome the 

 change in the colour of the cover. 



30 pp. Price 6d. f 84 pp. Price 2/-. 



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