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which the children had recently caught in the Rectory grounds. 

 — C. S. Carter, Louth. 



Sirex gigas has been not uncommon in South West York- 

 shire, and elsewhere this year, judging from the reports and 

 specimens brought to me, but I have not seen noctilio. S, 

 jnvencus is distinct from both species, but most, or all, of the old 

 records of jnvencus refer to noctilio. — G. T. Porritt. 



MOLLVSCA. 



Milax sowerbyi in Grimsby. — When walking down 

 Ainslie Street, Grimsby, about 10-30 a.m. on the 17th October, 

 near a grass enclosure, I noticed a number of slime tracks on 

 the pavement. From one of them I picked up a slug, which 

 proved to be Milax sowerbyi. This species has not been 

 previously recorded for the Grimsby District (Division 4). — 

 C. S. Carter, Louth. 



— : o : — 

 GEOLOGY, 



Plants from the Peat.— At a recent meeting of the Hull 

 Geological Society it was announced by Mr. W. H. Crofts, that 

 he had obtained a portion of a seed pod of the Iris (/. pseudo- 

 corus) from the peat exposed during the excavations for the 

 dock at Immingham, North Lincolnshire. At the same meet- 

 ing Mr. J. F. Robinson exhibited a well-preserved seed-pod of 

 the March Pea (Lathyris palustris) from the peat exposed 

 during the construction of the New Dock at Hull. — T. S. 



Shap Granite at Hull. — Mr. Pauley has presented to the 

 Hull Museum a fine Boulder of Shap Granite obtained from 

 the Boulder Clay exposed during the construction of the new 

 Joint Dock at Hull, at a depth of 20 ft. from the surface. It 

 is sub-angular in shape, and measures 16 inches X 14 J inches, 

 and is 3 ft. Sins, in greatest circumference. — T. S. 



A contemporary figures a ' tame wild ' lizard ! 



A certain natural history magazine is getting conscientious. We learn 

 under ' Answers to correspondence. ' that ' No queries have been sent in 

 so no replies can be published ! ' 



We learn from the report of the Committee of the British Association 

 appointed to determine the precise signification of topographical and 

 geological terms used locally in South Africa, that Poortje = a little poort. 

 We don't quite know what a ' little poort ' is, unless it is what a geologist 

 asks for when he is Gouph (pronounced ' cope ' ) ' a Bushman word, meaning 

 as dry as can be.' W^e notice that a Yorkshire geologist is the Chairman 

 of this Committee. 



1909 Dec. I. 



