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small adherent patches of the minute Seligeria pusilla, and 
the hepatic Haplozia riparia, whereas on the vertical cliffs 
on the right were many pale patches of the hepatic Cololejeunea 
calcarea, also closely adherent to the rock face at right angles 
to the stream. 
Preissia quadrata, a thalloid hepatic, was in good fruit 
by the stream, as well as Metzgeria pubescens. For further 
information about the bryophytes of this district see The 
Naturalist for 1905, page 278. 
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The Annual Report of the Midland Railway Natural History Society, 
24 pp., contains particulars of the work of the various sections, as well as 
summaries of lectures given during the year. Mr. R. Watkin of the 
Engineer’s Dept., Derby, is the Hon. Secretary. 
The Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philo- 
sophical Society, Vol. 58, Part II., contains a number of papers, among 
which we notice, ‘ How does the Plant obtain its nutriment from the Soil,’ 
by A. D. Hall ; and the ' Faunal Survey of Rostheme Mere,’ by Messrs. 
W. M. Tattersall, and T. A. Coward. 
The Proceedings of the Holmesdale Natural History Club for the years 
1910-13, published at the Reigate Press, 1914 (100 pp., 2s. 6d.) include 
abstracts of papers, etc., only a few of which, however, bear directly upon 
the club’s district. Among the items we notice a visit to Crete ; Eggs of 
Moths ; Brazilian Tour ; Extinct Animals, etc., and Mr. C. E. Salmon 
gives Surrey Plant Records. 
We have received the Report of the Botanical Exchange Club, edited 
by the secretary, Mr. G. Claridge Druce (Vol. Ill, Part V., pp. 307-440, 5s.) 
It is a remarkable record of the club’s work during 1914, and contains 
botanical notes dealing with most parts of the country. In addition to 
these there are plates illustrating Lepidium Pseudo-didmum Thellung, 
Amaranthus thunbergii Moquin, Nassella flaccidula Hackel, and Hordeum 
violaceum Boissier. 
Vol. IV, Part I. of the Transactions of the Natural History Society of 
Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne contains a remarkable 
record of the work done by this enthusiastic institution. In addition to 
the reports of the society’s work, we notice two papers on ‘British Sym- 
phvla,’ by Mr. R. S. Bagnall; who also describes a new species of Brachy- 
pauropus. The Rev. J. E. Hull illustrates * New and Rare British 
Spiders ’ ; ' British Spiders of the genus Microneta ’ are described by Mr. 
A. Randall Jackson. Dr. Verhoeff writes on ‘The Occurrence of Brachy- 
chaeteuma, Titanosoma and Polymicrodon in England,’ and Mr. G. 
Stewardson Brady gives ‘ An Amended Description of Diaptomus Sancti 
Patricii ’ ; Mr. C. T. Trechmann gives notes on ‘ Neolithic Chipping Sites 
in Northumberland and Durham ’ ; Mr. R. G. A. Bullerwell describes ‘ A 
Section of the Cliffs near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea,’ and Dr. J. A. Smythe 
‘ The Glacial Geology of Northumberland.’ Reports of the field meetings 
are given by Mr. C. E. Robson and Mr. B. Amsden. We should be inclined 
to differ from Mr. Trechmann who states that the flint on the neolithic sites 
in Northumberland and Durham ‘ almost certainly come from Yorkshire 
Wolds, as it greatly resembles that composing the implements left in such 
quantity by Neolithic man in that district.’ As a matter of fact the flint 
implements on the Wolds are not made from Yorkshire flint, but from 
glacially borne flints in the Holdemess drifts. (See The Naturalist, 1910, 
pp. 293-298). 
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