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Unusual feeding habits were noticed, viz.: — The attendance of three 
adults to one young, also the feeding of a young Sandwich Tern by an 
adult Arctic Tern. 
Mr. C. W. Mason shewed a series of slides of the Dotterel sitting. 
Mr. Edmondson shewed a slide of the White-breasted, or Cape Cor- 
morant, taken in the Zoo, and remarked on the similarity between this 
species and the variety on the Scillies. 
Mr. Booth shewed slides of a rare bird from New Caledonia, the Kagu — 
now joined by a relative in the Zoo, also of the new Pigmy Hippo, and gave 
many particulars of their history and habits. 
Votes of thanks were passed to the Lecturers and to Mr. Graham, of the 
Leeds Education Committee, for the use of the room. — A. Haigh-L’jmby. 
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A former President of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, Mr. G. W. 
Lamplugh, F.R.S., lias recently received the important post of Sub- 
Director of H.M. Geological Survey. 
Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson favours us with a copy of his Third Report of 
the explorations at Dog Holes, Warton Crag, Lancs., which deals with 
still further interesting discoveries in this cave. 
Besides the study of the vertebrate fauna of the county, the Verte- 
brate Section of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union seems to be doing 
good work in the way of securing new members for the Union, judging 
from the results of the recent meetings. 
At the recent Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 
Mr. R. H. Tiddeman, F.E.S., was nominated for presidency, and Mr. A. 
Gilligan for the sercetaryship, in place of Air. Cosmo John, F.E.S., who 
was sincerely thanked for his past services. 
We have received Yol. 2, Nos. 33 and 34 of the Scientific Roll, published 
by Dorrington Bros, London, at 2s., which contains pages 515-584, and 
includes abstracts of papers dating between i860 and 1913, dealing with 
subjects connected with Vital Chemistry, Albumen to Alcohol. 
The Third Annual Report of the Doncaster Municipal Art Gallery and 
Museum gives an account of the progress made at Beechfield. There is a 
commendable list of ‘ Bygones,’ and a melancholy interest attaches to the 
gift of geological specimens by Mrs. Culpin. The insertion of a comma in 
the wrong place almost suggests that the Ammonites are from the Coal- 
measures. 
We learn from the daily press ‘ that Reuter’s Buenos Ayres correspon- 
dent says geologists from the La Plata Museum, who have been examining 
certain excavations which have been made at Mizanear. have made a 
sensational discovery of stone implements and various human objects. 
These are taken to prove that man already existed in the tertiary epoch.’ 
Doubtless this will prove to be another case of comparatively modern 
remains being wrongly dated. 
We take the following from a recent issue of The Yorkshire Post : — 
■ An Antiquarian Find at Barton-on-Humber. — A very interesting 
antiquarian find has been made at Barton-on-Humber by some workmen 
in the employment of a cement manufacturing firm whose works are 
on the Humber side. They were engaged digging clay, about a quarter 
of a mile from the river, when they unearthed, some seven feet below 
the surface, the head and ribs of an animal which is said to be unfamiliar 
to Great Britain. Some of those who have seen the remains state that 
they resemble those of the walrus. Some time ago the perfect skeleton 
of a man measuring 6 feet 3 inches was found in the same part, and this 
is now in the Lincoln Museum. The present find is also to be sent to 
Lincoln.' We have had an opportunity of seeing this extraordinary 
discovery, and find that it is the skull of a young horse, and obviously 
quite modern in date. It has been sent to the Museum at Lincoln. 
Naturalist, 
