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Uncle Westell, in the ' Aninuil World ' recently, has again been enu- 

 merating the variou'^ wonderful things he can see with his ' seeing eye,' 

 whereas the ordinary mortal heetls Ihein not. Mr. Westell may have 

 the ' seeing e\e ' ; but. he knows it. 



' A remarkable discovery in the Tees ' has gone the rounds of the daily 

 papers, together with the usual speculations as to its origin. It has been 

 submitted to us. and proves to be the tooth of an Indian elephant, which 

 has probably dropped overboard from a cargo of bones. 



Two new British beetles are described in the May ' Entomologist's 

 Monthly ^Magazine ' ; one, Lif avians roloi'dtus Rosenh., was found last year 

 in Sherwood Forest, by Mr. J. Ray Hardy ; the other, Longitarsits niger- 

 rimus Gyll. was taken near Cleethorpes. by Dr. W. Wallace, of Grimsby, 



A weekly journal devoted to birds, squeaking shoes, and true stories 

 has appropriately reproduced ' Punch's ' cartoon, ' A Modern St. Francis,' 

 in which Lord Avebury is surrounded by all manner of birds. We wonder 

 if the editor had noticed that his lordship is signilicantly pointing to the 

 Lyre-bird. 



According to a recent report of the Parks' Committee of the Hull 

 Corporation, the municipal peahen died, leaving the peacock ' looking 

 lonelv.' It was also reported that it had recently made friends with a 

 black cat, and the two strolled up and down the green together, the cat 

 even being occasionally found in the peacock's nest ! It was decided to 

 find a new and proper mate for the peacock. 



We are glad to learn from the ' Agricultural Economist ' that War- 

 rington has now followed the example of almost every other town, and has 

 ' one of the best-arranged museums in the country,' though the photo- 

 graphs which accompany the note, excellent as they are, hardly seem to 

 add weight to this statement. The Museum has also ' inaugurated ' a 

 wild-l^owcr table, and the suggestion is made that ' the idea is one well 

 worth following by other similar institutions.' It is just possible, however, 

 that our excellent friends at Warrington (who are not responsible for the 

 note in the ' Agricultural Economist ') have in this way followed the lead 

 of many other similar institutions. 



' To kill wasps : — Clap your hands smartly together so as to crush the 

 insect between them as it flies. When thus killed it is quite unable to 

 sting ! ' — 'The Countryside.' To this ' Punch ' adds : — ' Though it is 

 quite true that a dead wasp cannot sting, yet it should be noted that a 

 dying wasp is sometimes so ungrateful as to spurn the hand that stroked 

 it. Beginners, therefore, should avoid the ' south end * where the sting 

 is, and clap the animal on the head.' Personally, we think that ' Punch ' 

 might stick to its own sphere, and not try to rob its contemporary of a 

 reputation of being the only journal giving really useful and reliable 

 natural history information. 



In the early hours of Good Friday morning, the ' Barnsley ' bed of 

 coal, nine feet thick, was reached in a boring on Thorne Moor at a depth 

 of 916 yards. According to the ' Yorkshire Post,' the borehole ' on Thorne 

 Moor has proved the existence of minerals over a stretch of country from 

 Bentley to Thorne, a distance of ten miles or more. Millions upon millions 

 of tons of coal lie deep down, waiting for the getting, in the region of the 

 new borehole, and the winning of that coal means the transformation of 

 Thorne from a quiet country town, with a market in name only, into an 

 industrial centre, which may approach in importance the neighbouring 

 borough of Doncaster, now looked upon as the future hub of the South 

 Yorkshire coalfield.' It is to be hoped that the proposed natural history 

 survey of Thorne Moor will be completed before these changes take place ! 



Naturalist, 



