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Water Rail at Bridlington. — A Water Rail in excellent 
plumage was picked up on the golf course at Bridlington on 
the ist of February, evidently having been damaged by coming 
into contact with telegraph wires. — T. S. 
Waxwings in East Yorkshire.— There has been a wide- 
spread immigration of Waxwings this winter. Nine birds 
have been brought in to our local taxidermist, Mr. J. Darley, 
as follows : — 18th November, 1913, one from Thearne ; 21st 
November, one from three miles off Thearne ; 8th December, 
one from Hutton Cranswick ; 10th December, one from 
Hornsea, killed by a cat in the garden of Mr. J. J. Grainger, 
which a pair had frequented for about a month previously ; 
20th December, one from Driffield ; 22nd December, one from 
North Cave, out of a flock of eight ; 23rd December, two from 
near Selby, where the sender reported that he had seen a 
flock of about forty ; 30th December, one from Barrow-on- 
Humber ; and during the second and third week of January, 
1914, one bird frequented a garden at Elloughton ; two observed 
at Ferriby at the end of January. — E. W. Wade. 
The Transactions of the Nottingham Naturalists’ Society have just 
reached us, and contain the Rev. Hilderic Friend's third paper on 
Annelid Hunting in Notts.’ 
The Annual Report of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union (reprinted 
from The Naturalist), containing the reports of the work of the various 
sections and committees during 1913, has been published. (A. Brown 
and Sons, is.). 
From the Annual Report of the Midland Natural History Society it is 
apparent that this Society is continuing its good work. There is a brief 
summary of the papers read, together with an account of the rambles, 
and sectional reports. The Secretary is Mr. R. Watkin, Engineer's Office, 
Midland Railway, Derby. 
Messrs. Witherbv have published a Guide to Selborne and a Synopsis 
of the life of Gilbert White, by W. H. Mullen, as Bulletin CXC. of the 
British Ornithologists’ Club. We do not know of anyone better qualified 
than Mr. Mullen, but 2s. 6d. net for a little paper-covered pamphlet of 
thirty-seven pages seems rather a ‘ stiff ’ price to pay. 
The Proceedings of the University of Durham Philosophical Society 
contain a well illustrated paper on ‘ The Great Whinsill of Kirkwhelp- 
ington,’ by Mr. G. Weyman ; ‘The Structure of Metals,’ Sir J. Alfred 
Ewing ; ‘ Deforestation in Ancient Greece,’ by M. S. Thompson ; ‘ Colour 
Changes in Colloidal Gold,’ by S. H. Long, etc. The publication is sold 
by Andrew Reid and Co., Newcastle, for half-a-crown. 
Part 3 of Volume LVII. of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical 
Society Memoirs and Proceedings is a substantial volume, and includes 
the following papers of interest to our readers : — ‘ The Variation of 
Planorbis multiformis,’ by G. Hickling ; ‘ Relations between Puccinia 
malvaceavum and the Tissues of its Host Plant (Alt/uea rosea) ’ by Wilfrid 
Robinson ; ‘ Root-Apex and Young Root of Lyginodendron ' and ‘ A 
Tylodendren-like Fossil,' by Professor F. E. Weiss, and ‘ Contributions 
to the History of Science based on Autograph Documents,' by K. 
Loewenfeld. 
1914 Mar. 1. 
