3^54 



Notes and Comments. 



THE CARTWRIGHT HALL MUSEUM. 

 The same journal contains the text of a leng-thy and com- 

 prehensive memorandum in reference to the proposed natural 

 history museum at the Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford. 

 This was prepared by the Bradford Scientific Association;- and 

 has been considered by a Committee of the Bradford Corpora- 

 ^ tion. ' The Committee decided to accede to the recommenda- 

 tions of the Scientific Association that the large room at the 

 west end of the Cartwright Hall, with the adjoining- small room, 

 should be utilised for the accommodation of a natural history 

 collection on the lines suggested in the memorandum. It was 

 further agreed that the collection should be, as far as possible, 

 confined to the natural history of Yorkshire, although the Com- 

 mittee reserved to themselves freedom to consider on their 

 merits any other suggestions which might at any time be made, 

 and also to accept, if thought desirable, any objects and speci- 

 mens offered to them not of Yorkshire origin.' The scheme is 

 a good one, but the Bradford Museum Committee are surely 

 somewhat leisurely, not to say dilatory, in making a beginning 

 in getting it into operation. 



ANTHRACOMYA PHILLIPSI IN DURHAM. 



In the November ' Geological Magazine ' Mr. J. T. Stobbs 

 records the occurrence of A7ithraco?7iya PhiLlipsi in the Durham 

 Coalfield. ' The interest of the discovery lies in the proof 

 of the existence of the Phillipsi-zor\Q near to the top of the Coal- 

 measures in the Durham Coalfield, and, so far as we may 

 legitimately infer from the character of the immediately-over- 

 lying measures in other coalfields, that in all probability the 

 pre-Permian denudation did not remove much of the Coal- 

 measures that are of special commercial value, but, on the other 

 hand, it has rendered the excellent coal-seams of that district 

 much more accessible.' 



A LEEDS SEWAGE WORKS FLY. 

 A paper in the recently-issued 'Transactions of the Entomo- 

 Ibgical Society of London ' forcibly calls to mind some notes by 

 Mr. W. F. Baker on ' Hydrobius fuscipes : Notes on its Life, 

 History, Larvag, Anatomy, etc.,' which appeared in this journal 

 for November 1894. It is by Mr. J. K. Dell, of the Leeds 

 University, and entitled 'The Structure and Life History of 

 Psychoda ' sexpunctata.' The paper contains a clearly written 

 account of Mr. Dell's observations, and is illustrated ;by a 



. - Naturalistr 



