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Northern News. 
‘ Luminous Owls ’ seems to be the subject of discussion, among several 
of them, in certain ‘ Dailies ’ just now. 
The Foulerton Award of the Geological Association has been given to- 
Messrs. C. Davis Sherborn and Martin A. C. Hinton 
In The Entomologist for January, E. Meyrick alters the name Moth- 
onica (previously used) to Mothonodes ; and on the next page D. excavata 
is changed to D. exhumata, for the same reason. 
We have received from Tokyo a paper ‘ On the Development of 
Panulirus japonicus (v. Siebold), by Arata Terao, published in the 
Report of the Imperial Fisheries Institute, Japan. It is well illustrated. 
Among the numerous contents of the Transactions of the Dumfriesshire 
and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, recently pub- 
lished, we notice : ‘Plants of Holms, Merselands, and River Valleys,’ 
by G. F. Scott Elliot ; ‘ The Marine and Fresh -water Fishes of Wigtown- 
shire,’ by J. G. Gordon ; and ‘A List of the Coleoptera of the Solway 
District,’ by B. M’Gowan. 
The Louse as a Menace to Man ; its life-history and methods for its 
destruction, is the title of a twenty -page illustrated handbook, issued by 
the British Museum (Natural History) as its Economic Series No. 2. 
The pamphlet is by Dr. James Waterston, and refers to a subject which has 
received rather more than usual prominence in recent years. It is sold 
for the small price of 6d . 
Hull Museum Publication No. 124, ‘ Wilberforce House : Its 
History and Collections ' (8 pages), has been issued, and is being sold at 
the nominal price of one penny. It is felt that this will be more appre- 
ciated than the previously published Guide of 32 pages, which was 
originally sold at one penny, but has reached a figure, entirely due to 
printers’ charges, which is prohibitive to the ordinary visitor. 
‘ Constant Reader ’ writes : — ‘ As I have devoted a good deal of 
attention to cryptog (r)ainic botany, I beg to reply to your queries on p. 
32 of the January issue of The Naturalist. The Arctic Fern is, of course, 
Blechnum boreale. The Common Fern is Lastrea Filix-mas, because it 
occurs in the neighbourhood of Leeds, and any fern found in such a locality 
must be a Common Fern. The latter is a migratory fern. A specimen 
of this fern recently seen a few miles from Leeds was shortly afterwards 
observed in a neighbour’s garden, well within the City boundary. I 
once found a dead Common Fern on a rubbish heap, at Meanwood, where 
it had been shot ! 
The Annual Meeting of the Selby Scientific Society was held at the 
Museum recently. The secretary (Mr. J. F. Musham) read his report of 
the year’s work. There had been a steady increase in membership, an 
improved average attendance at field meetings, and revivification of 
sectional activity, notably in photography. The treasurer’s report 
showed the finances to be in a healthy condition, with a substantial 
balance in hand. The year’s record of plants and fungi were dealt with in 
interesting reports submitted by Mr. J. B. Foggitt and Mr. W. N. 
Cheesman, J.P. Exceptional conditions arising out of the dry summer 
had produced a remarkable series of plants not commonly recorded, the 
larger areas of mud exposed to the sun being suggested as the probable 
cause. The retiring president, Mr. A. Hutchinson, proposed as president 
for the, ensuing year Mr. J. C. Pike. This was carried. (Mr. W. E. 
Hodgson was re-appointed treasurer. Mr. J . F. Musham was re-elected 
secretary, with many expressions of appreciation of the services rendered 
to the Society in that capacity for nine years. A reference was made to 
the intention of the Urban District Council to sell the books in the 
Museum Library, and the opinion was expressed that this was a mistake, 
and that the books should be retained until such time as there were others 
to replace them, and until the town was in possession of a public reference 
library, of which it is badly in need. 
Naturalist 
