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Upper Wharfedale at any time of the year (see The Naturalist. 
1909, pp. 55-57). there was a party of these birds in Gibson 
Wood, near Hebden Bridge, in Upper Calder Valley, on 22nd 
November. It is from ten to fifteen years since I saw a flock 
here before. That it formerly bred sparingly in this district 
is proved bv a nest in the Halifax Museum, labelled ‘ Hebden 
Valley.’ and taken by J. Crossley in 1871. The late John 
Dewhirst told me that a nest was once found in the adjacent 
Colden Valley — probably a later record — but I have no per- 
sonal experience of its breeding here. I saw the birds again 
on the 29th and 30th November. There were at least a dozen 
on each occasion. * Unusually large numbers of Blue and 
Coal Tits have also frequented the same wood during the 
last few weeks, but immigrant Goldcrests are hardly as abun- 
dant as usual. A single Swallow was flying over the Calder, 
at Hawksclough, on the 29th November. I never heard of 
one here so late before. — -Walter Greaves, Hebden Bridge. 
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ENTOMOLOGY 
Colias edusa in Lincolnshire. — I had pleasure in ob- 
serving this insect in comparative abundance in the parish 
of Goulceby on 8th September, about eight miles from Louth. 
I also was shown one specimen about the same time, taken 
near Grimsby. — J. Larder, Louth, December, 1913. 
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Among the New Year honours we are glad to see that Sir Archibald 
Geikie has received the Order of Merit. 
A proposition has been made to present a portrait of Sir Archibald 
Geikie, the retiring president, to the Royal Society. 
A specimen of Catocala fraxini (The Clifton Nonpareil) was taken 
at Grange-over-Sands last year. ( The Entomologist, January, 1914.) 
Messrs. Wheldon and Travis record Lecidea Gagei A. L. Sm. (L. 
Taylori Mudd) a new Lancashire Lichen, from Colne ; in the Lancashire 
Naturalist for December. 
Mr. A. \Y. Summersgill has a paper on ‘ The Theory of Staining ' in 
The Micrologist, volume 2, part 7 of which has recently been published 
by Messrs. Flatters, Milbome & McKechnie, of Manchester, price is. 6d. 
The Proceedings of the Cheltenham Natural Science Society, Volume 2, 
Part 2, contains the presidential address of Dr. E. T. Wilson, entitled 
‘ The Flints of the Cotteswolds and their uses.’ There are also other 
notes. 
From the Sixth Annual Report of the Court and Governors of the 
National Museum of Wales, it is apparent that the building has reached 
the ground floor level. The contents of the Municipal Museum at Cardiff 
have been handed over to the National Trustees, and are now known as 
the Cardiff collections. The report contains illustrations of a tiger pre- 
sented by the king, a hand loom, etc. 
* No doubt a family party. — E d. 
1914 Feb. 1 
