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NORTHERN NEWS. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. Bennett H. Brough, F.G.S., the 

 Secretary of the Iron and Steel Institute. He was taken ill during the 

 proceedings of that body at Middlesborough early in October, and died 

 shortly afterwards. 



Mr, M. A. C. Hinton, in the ' Geological Magazine ' for October, re- 

 cords the discovery of a monkey's bone in the Norfolk Forest Bed. In the 

 same publication Dr. F. A. Bather has a useful note on Professor Nathorst's 

 studies of Fossil Plants. 



An admirable paper on ' The Preparation and Preservation of Fossils,' 

 by Dr. F. A. Bather, of the British Museum, appears in the ' Museums 

 Journal ' for September. In this, the various methods of preparing 

 fossils, and freeing them from their matrix, are carefully set forth. There 

 are also some useful hints on the preservation of fossils. 



The authorities at the Hull Museum v/ould like to receive a few more 

 orders for the Catalogue of the Dobree collection of European Noctuse, by 

 Mr. H. B. Browne, M.A., in order to expedite the printing. Orders for 

 the list, which will be published at one shilling each, will be gladly received 

 by the editors of this journal. 



Mr. A. R. Gale records that on September 28th he shot an adult male 

 Yellow-browed Warbler on the Holderness Coast (' British Birds,' Nov.). 

 Mr. H. F. Witherby secured one at the same place a week later. Mr. 

 G. W. Murdoch, in the same journal, records finding a Kingfisher's nest 

 with four young nearly ready to fly, near Bentham, as late as October loth. 



On the invitation of the Executive Committee of the Yorkshire Natural- 

 ists' Union, Mr. W. H. St. Quintin, J. P., M.B.O.U., of Scampston Hall, 

 Yorkshire, has accepted the office of President of the Union for 1909. 

 Mr. St. Quintin during 1908 was the President of the Union's Wild Birds' 

 and Eggs Protection Acts Committee, and has taken a keen and practical 

 interest in the preservation of the fauna of the county. 



With regard to the remarks about the Turtle-dove, which appeared in 

 the report of the meeting at Hampole (' Naturalist,' 1908, p. 381), Mr. 

 W. Gyngell informs us that the species is by no means rare in the Scar- 

 borough district, where it nests annually, almost within the borough boun- 

 dary. This fact was also pointed out some time ago in these columns by 

 Mr. Riley Fortune. It is also recorded for Wetherby, and nests regularly 

 at Plumpton, near Harrogate, and the Rev. F. H. Woods informs us that 

 a pair has bred for many years at Kelleythorpe, near Driffield. 



We notice that one of the ' popular ' natural history journals has 

 started a geological page ; and the leading article in a recent issue is on 

 ' Fossil shells,' and is illustrated by five blocks, three of which are of trilo- 

 bites, and another illustrates an ' Encrinoid ' head. There is an illustra- 

 tion of ' Atrypa viticularis [sic], a bractiopod [sic], or lamp-shell, which 

 has the outer appearance of a bivalve, but is structurally very distinct ! 

 There is also a picture of a Pleuropomaria, and a Gamellibranch. 

 These and other subjects are discussed in this article on ' Paelaontology ' 

 [sic] . The ordinary English words, however, are usually spelled correctly. 



We are sorry to find it necessary to call the attention of our contributors 

 to the conditions appearing on the cover of this journal, and par- 

 ticularly to the following paragraph : — ' Articles and notes sent for 

 publication in ' The Naturalist,' are accepted on the understanding that 

 such publication is not anticipated elsewhere. Should the author of any short 

 article wish its simultaneous appearance in another journal, mention 

 should also be made of such wish. The copyright of all the contents of 

 ' The Naturalist ' is reserved to the proprietors. This will not prevent 

 reproduction of any article on leave being expressly obtained from the editors, 

 and full acknowledgment given." 



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