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NORTHERN NEWS. 
Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S., has been elected to the Presidency of the 
Geological Society of London. 
The late Colonel E. S. Mason’s collection of albinos, hybrids, and 
varieties of birds and mammals has been deposited in the Lincoln Museum. 
We gather from the press that a valuable art collection, which recently 
realised ^10,853, left by the late S. Bainbridge, would have been given 
to the City of Lincoln had there been a suitable building for its reception. 
Dr. Hugh Scott has a"‘ Note on some Hymenopterous Parasites and 
other enemies of Tortrix viridana Linn. ; with further Records of 
Chalcididas swarming in buildings,’ in The Entomologist’s Monthly 
Magazine for March. 
Among the papers in The Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture for 
March we notice ‘ Potato Pink Rot,’ by A. D. Cotton ; ‘ Turnip Gall 
Weevil,’ by P. V. Isaac ; and ‘ Food and Feeding Habits of the Little 
Owl,’ by W. E. Collinge. 
We must congratulate Mr. H. Kirke Swann on the prompt issue of 
his ‘ Synopsis of the Accipitres.’ Part III. has appeared and includes 
Herpetotheres to Pernis, comprising Species and Subspecies described up 
to 1920, with their Characters and Distribution. 
‘Biological Studies in Aphis rumicis L.,’ by J. Davidson ; ‘ Sources 
of Infection of Potato Tubers with Phytophthora infestans,’ by P. A. 
Murphy ; ‘ Diseases of Flax,’ by H. A. Lafferty, are among the numerous 
valuable papers recently issued by the Royal Dublin Society. 
Part XIII. of Witherby’s ‘Practical Handbook of British Birds ' 
(Vol. II., pp. 353-448, 4/6 net) has appeared, and deals with Eiders, 
Scoters, Cormorants, Shags, Gannet, Petrels, Shearwaters, Albatros 
and allied species. There are numerous illustrations of critical parts of 
birds . 
‘ A New Styelid Tunicate from Norway ’ is the title of a Monograph, 
in English, by Dr. A. Arab ach -Christie -Linde, in the Bergens Museums 
Aa,rbok, recently to hand ; and there are other valuable papers in English. 
In the same publication Jens Holmboe contributes ‘ Lidt om Monotropa 
Hypopetys i .Norge.’ 
Among the papers in- The Journal of Botany for March are ‘ Southbya 
nigrella in Britain,’ by W. E. Nicholson ; ‘ Critical Notes on some 
Species of Cerastium,’ by F. N. Williams ; ‘ Notes on North Herts 
Willows,’ by J. E. Little ; and ‘ New and Noteworthy Fungi,’ by W. B. 
Groves. There are the usual informative Book-Notes, News, etc. 
We learn from a Hull newspaper dated February 24th, that ‘ A richly 
marked “ scarlet admiral ” butterfly was discovered crawling on the 
floor of a “ Mail ” room this morning. It had apparently just emerged 
from its chrysalis, or perhaps had just “ blown in.” ’ We know these 
newspaper offices. Is the editor satisfied that it was not a ‘ painted 
lady ’ that had just ‘ blown in ’ ? 
Hull Museum Publication N 0 . 125, being the 62nd Record of Additions, 
has just appeared, though it evidently includes notes written some time 
ago. The Museum is apparently getting rid of its arrears of records, 
which have accumulated during the war. The part deals with Relics 
of Old High Street, Old Hull Steamers, Numismatics, a Model of an 
Early Type of Railway Engine and other additions. 
‘ Hop -growers’ Tokens,’ by J. Digby Firth; ‘Agriculture and its 
Effect on the Distribution of Recent Coins,’ and ‘ Check List of Pence of 
Queen Victoria,’ both by J. F. Mu sham ; ‘Roman Coins from the 
Excavations at Ilkley,’ by A. M. Woodward ; and papers on ‘ Love 
Tokens,’ ‘ Yorkshire Tramway Tokens ’ and ‘ Yorkshire Seventeenth 
Century Tokens,’ by the Editor, T. Sheppard ; and ‘ An Unpublished 
Farthing Token in Silver,’ by W. J. .Davis, appear in the well-illustrated 
Transactions of the Yorkshire Numismatic Society just to hand (A. Brown 
& Sons, Ltd., Hull, 4s.). 
Naturalist 
