Northern A^cws. 



Ulverston. Lancashire. Paving stone in Town street, said to have come 



from Walney Island. ' Naturalist,' April 1897, p. 105. — Petty, 

 Upsall. Hag's Hill, near Thirsk.— J/a//. 

 Walne}^ Island. See Ulverston. 



Washton. N.R., of York. Half-way between Richmond and Barnard 

 Castle. 32" X 25" X 21" sub. ang. No striae. 700' O.D., rough 

 estimate. — Gvegson, Y.B.C., 1897. 



Wath, near Ripon. Y.B.C., 5th year. — Mitchell, 



Wath Sutton, Westmorland. See Kendal. 



Wear (River). Mansonsays (report ist year, p. 23) : — ' Have never observed 

 it in the Wear, or rather that portion of it down to Bishop Auckland.' 



Wheatcroft, near Scarborough. In corner of second field from road. 

 I. S.G. 2' long. — Kendall, Y.B.C., 1899-1900. 



Whitby. On West Cliff Sands. 4' x 2' x 2' 3" on shore. Sub. ang. N.S.— 

 Gregson, 3rd Report, Y.B.C. 



Withernsea. One Shap Granite small boulder on the beach ; one larger 

 boulder in a garden near the ' Spread Eagle ' Hotel. Has probably 

 been collected from the beach. — Sheppard. Y.B.C, 1898. 



York. From boulder clay dug out of Station foundations. 



1. 2' 9" X I'lo'' X 11". Irregular shape, smooth. 



2. i' 4''xi' 4"xio". Irregular, parallelopiped, rough surface. 



3. 3' i"x2' 3"xi' 10". Irregular, rounded, but not smooth. 



4. 2' 9"xi'io"xi' 7". Irregular, oval, smootYi. ~ Platnauer , 



2nd year Y.B.C. 



On the accompanying map (Plate XXII.) is marked the dis- 

 tribution of the erratic boulders scheduled herein. The 

 localities where representative rocks of each group are re- 

 corded are indicated by initial letters, ' W ' (Western), ' N ' 

 (Northern), ' E ' (Eastern). 



Shap Granite is separately shown by the letter ' S,' and 

 certain distinctive rocks from Scotland, Norway and Sweden 

 are also indicated by their respective initial letters. 



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An article on ' The School Museum System at Sheffield,' by Mr. E. 

 Howarth, appears in ' The Museums' Journal ' for April. 



The May ' Zoologist ' is exceptionally interesting. Our contributor 

 Mr. C. Oldham, has some interesting ' Field-notes on the birds of the 

 Ravenglass Gullery.' Mr. W. Warde Fowler gives some Notes on Avignon, 

 Mr. Gordon Dalgliesh writes on ' The Mammals of Surrey ' (with illustra- 

 tions of shrews and mice) ; Mr. T. C. Parker gives a second instalment of 

 his ' Notes from Lakeland, Cumberland, and Westmorland, 1905,' respect- 

 ing the first portion of which Messrs. D. L. Thorpe and L. E. Hope make 

 some scathing remarks. There are also shorter notes. 



We have received two interesting reprints from Mr. G. S. West, of the 

 Birmingam University. Both papers appeared in the Linnean Society's 

 Journal. The first is an exhaustive Repord. on the Freshwater Algae, 

 including Phytoplankton, of the Third Tanganyika Expedition, 1904-5, 

 Mr. West's memoir includes descriptions and illustrations of several forms, 

 including one genus, thirty-six species, and eighteen varieties new to 

 science. The second paper deals with some critical green algae, and includes 

 descriptions and illustrations, amongst others, of the following new species : 

 PolychcBtophora simplex, Kirchneriella suhsolitayia, and Phyllobium sphag- 

 ■nicola. 



Naturalist. 



