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Only one other is on record, from Manton, Lincolnshire. (See The 
Naturalist, October 1907, page 357). 
Smaris (Calyptostoma) hardyi Camb. — One, Morton Wood, Holmfirth, 
July 1912 ; Ainley Place, three ; Lepton Great Wood, one. ( Annals 
and Mag. Nat. Hist., Yol.XVI. (Fourth Series), page 384 ; Science 
Gossip, 1879, November, page 249* ; The Naturalist, February 1907, 
pp. 41-44)-* 
Ixodes reduvius Linn. — Two females, Wilberlee, Slaithwaite, on a cow 
lately imported from Wales. (See Science Gossip, July 1901, p. 39.) 
I. putus Camb. — Yorkshire (Nuttall and Warburton’s Monograph, 1912). 
A parasite on seabirds (guillemots, razorbills, puffins, herring gulls, 
kittiwakes), and equally common in both the Arctic and Antartic 
regions. (See Science Gossip, August 1901, page 71.) 
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Mr. A. W. Slocum illustrates some remarkable new forms of trilobites 
from the Maquoketa beds of Iowa in Publication 171 of the Field Museum 
of Natural History, Chicago. 
Mr. R. W. Goulding sends 11s a paper read before the Louth Antiquarian 
and Literary Society, entitled ‘ Four Louth Men : An Abbot, a Monk, 
a Physician and a Schoolmaster,’ namely Richard de Dunham, William 
de Tournay, John Jones and William Walker. 
We have received from Mr. A. L. Thomson a valuable First Interim 
Report (1909-1912) of the “ Aberdeen University Bird Migration Enquiry.” 
The Report includes methods of ringing the birds, scope of work, and 
details of results. It is reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist. 
We have received from the Hastings Museum their ‘ Occasional Notes, 
No. 2,’ which include many folk-lore, etc., items, and an admirable and 
well illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of British Needlework from the 
sixteenth century onward. The first is sold at id., and the second at is. 
The Marine Biological Association of the West of Scotland favours us 
with its Annual Report for 1912, from which it appears that there is a 
large deficit on the year’s work, and it has not been possible to make 
use of the S.Y. ‘ Mermaid.’ This excellent institution certainly ought to 
be better supported. 
The Geological Society of London this year awards its medals and 
funds as follows : — Wollaston Medal, Dr. J. E. Marr, F.R.S. ; Murchison 
Medal, W. A. E. Ussher ; Lyell Medal, C. S. Middlemiss ; Wollaston 
Fund, R. B. Newton ; Murchison Fund, F. N. Haward ; Lyell Fund , 
Rev. W. Howchin and J. Postlethwaite. 
The Report of the Natural History Society of Norhumberland, Durham 
and Newcastle-upon-Tyne shows that considerable progress has been 
made during the year, though the Curator still complains of the way the 
work is handicapped on account of the shortage of funds. He also records 
a falling off in attendance at his lectures. The Society contemplates a 
card index of the fauna and flora of Northumberland and Durham. 
We have had the following news recently sent to us from an East 
Yorkshire paper ; probably the bird referred to is allied to Darwin’s 
famous ‘ hum-bug.’ North Cliffe. — A Bird Visitor. — A very rare 
bird has put in an appearance at North Cliffe (Hotham), and can be 
seen at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. Sykes, where it has taken up 
its residence. It is a humming bird, and is about the size of a pigeon, 
and has a gutta percha ring round the right foot, on which is inscribed 
“ 57 a — a.” This bird can be heard humming at frequent intervals.’ 
* References to Dr. George’s papers, but not to Yorkshire mites. 
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