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PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



The Annual Report of the Huddersfield Natural History and Photo- 

 graphic Society (1909. 8 pp.), lontains arecord of the year's work, together 

 with brief natural history records by C. Mosley (Lepidoptera) ; E. Fisher 

 (Ornithology) ; W. E. L. Wattan (Botany) ; and T. W. Woodhead 

 (Geology). From the librarians' report we learn that nine books were 

 not returned as per rule. 



We have received the ' Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society List of Members, 1909, and Annual Report for the year 1908 ' 

 (Coventry, 48 pp). This is a useful record of the Society's fiftieth year's 

 work, and of the w^ork of its various sections. '(Expenses attending dinner 

 in celebration of Fiftieth Anniversary, £g 5s. id.' would seem to indicate 

 that ' attending dinner ' is rather a serious matter in Birmingham ! 



The Transacitons of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and 

 Field Club {Yol. XR\ pt. i ) contains a valuable series of papers on Hert- 

 fordshire geology, archaeology and natural history. The late Sir John 

 Evans describes some palaeolithic implements ; Mr. Kidner has a paper on 

 the Chalk, and there are articles on birds, insect and fungus peats, lepidop- 

 tera, soils, etc. ; and the editor, Mr. John Hopkinson, has an exhaustive 

 meteorological report. Of particular interest to northern naturalists is 

 Canon Norman's Presidential Address on ' The Celtic Province : its 

 Extent and its Marine Fauna.' The Editor is to be congratulated upon 

 the excellent list of contributors. We notice the new President is a York- 

 shireman, Mr. George Lamplugh, F.R.S. 



The Bradford Antiquary, N.S., part 13. 1909. 2/6 net. 



Bradford people are proverbially religious, and we naturally expect to 

 find (and are seldom disappointed), papers dealing with old churches, 

 chapels and parsons in antiquarian publications emanating from Bradford. 

 The ' Bradford Antiquary ' is no exception, but in addition there are 

 interesting articles on old Bradford and old Shipley maps, a Bradford 

 artist (a Hull man!), place names, Clieldis, Clapham, and the Bradford 

 Manor Court Rolls, etc. There is also an appreciative notice of the late 

 Charles A. Federer. The contributors are -Messrs. H. Speight, L. Dawson, 

 J. A. Clapham, T. T. Empsall, H. E. Wroot, W. Scruton, B. Wood, W. E. 

 Preston, J. H. Rowe (Editor), and Miss Tempest. This interesting publica- 

 tion also contains the first part of a Transcript of the Marriage Register of 

 Bradford. 



Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club, Vol. IV., 

 Part II., 1909 (pp. 55-114; plates II. -IX.). Price 2/-. 



This Society continues to give proof of its vitality in both the charac- 

 teristics connoted in its title. This, the latest issue of its Transactions, 

 covers the years 1907 and 1908. It is in no way inferior to the earlier 

 numbers, and in common with them is notable for the wide field covered 

 by the observations it records, and especially so for those in departments 

 of Natural History which are rarely taken up by members of Natural 

 History Societies. Articles on Palaeontology, Geology, Botany, Arachnida, 

 Mollusca, and Diatomaceae, compete for special mention, and all deserve 

 it. Some of them have seen the light, or been noticed in ' The Naturalist ' 

 previously. They are none the less welcome in this collected form, show- 

 ing, as they do, the sum of work, done in a restricted area, partly in 

 Yorkshire and partly in Lincolnshire. Different tastes are all catered for. 

 The Naturalist will view with pleased surprise the excellent list of East 

 Riding Arachnida, compiled, and for the most part collected, by Mr. 

 Stainforth. The reader with Antiquarian or more general tastes, will be 

 attracted to the excellent series of seven plates with full descriptive 

 letterpress by Mr. Sheppard, of a collection of Roman and other antiquities 

 found at South Ferriby. Those of a literary or poetic turn will be 

 gratified to find a beautiful ' In Memoriam ' sonnet over the well-known 

 initials, 'E. L.' Emphatically a publication which entitles the members 

 of the Hull Society to feel satisfied that real work is being done under its 

 auspices, and should stir up other Societies to emulate the example it 

 sets.— E. G. B. 



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