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Slitnsik Ilutcs. 
“ The Naturalists’ Monthly ” is a new journal devoted to the 
interests of Nature-lovers and Nature-thinkers, the first number of 
which will appear synchronously with the present issue of the 
“ Midland Naturalist.” If we may judge by the prospectus, it is 
intended to enter into competition with our well-known contemporary 
“ Science Gossip,” but of this the first number will give a clearer 
conception. It is to be edited by Dr. J. W. Williams, and published 
by Walter Scott, Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row. 
Probably the most marked feature of the Meeting of the British 
Association at Manchester, commencing on August 31st, will be the 
number of foreign visitors who are expected to take part in the 
proceedings. Somewhere about 120 of these are expected. Perhaps 
the most remarkable assemblage will he on the botanical side of 
Section D. To mention the name of Professor Sachs, of Wurzburg, 
is to bring to mind one who stands head and shoulders above all his 
contemporaries as a physiologist; though scarcely less renowned is 
Professor Anton de Barv, of Strassburg, distinguished alike as 
anatomist, morphologist, and fungologist. Cohn, of Breslau ; Count 
von Soli ns Laubach, of Gottingen ; Pringslieim, of Berlin ; Da Saporta, 
of Aix; Dr. Treub, Director of the Botanical Gardens at Buitenzorg, 
Java; and Professor Asa Gray, of Harvard, complete a gathering of 
foreign botanists such as this generation will scarcely have seen before. 
Hayes Water.— Walking in May last from Mardale to Patterdale, 
in Westmoreland, by way of Kidsty Pike and High Street Mountains, 
I diverged down to this lonely mountain tarn (which should not be 
confused with the much larger lake of Hawes Water), being attracted 
by its clean seclusion and pastoral enclosure of long, grassy hillsides; 
but was most struck by the great number and uniformity of shape of 
moraine masses grouped about the south-east and north-west ends of 
the little lake (which is 1,383 feet above sea level), looking almost 
artificial, and arresting the attention by their totally different aspect 
from ordinary weathered detritus at the base of cliffs or below long 
slopes of rock, and having something of the regular shape and rounded 
contours of broad, colossal beehives; several are like these, with one 
side slightly flattened against the mountain. So uniformly and 
beautifully rounded are they, and so numerous, you see at once some 
special agency has been at work in the far past to produce them, 
although quite recently in a geological sense. The entire long, narrow 
valley has every appearance of being in a perfectly natural condition, 
and this agency, there so very decided , I can imagine to have been none 
but that of glaciers once present in the valley, and probably very 
slowly retreating upwards as the climate ameliorated, until at length 
the present conditions prevailed. I can strongly recommend the study 
of this particular valley of Hayes Water to geologists, it being com¬ 
paratively little known ; and it is easily reached by diverging to the right, 
on descending from Kirkstone Pass towards Patterdale, directly after 
passing the interesting lake of Brothers Water.— Horace Pearce, F.G.S. 
Tolypella intricata in Beds. —This was first observed in this 
county on March 3rd, 1883. It was growing in a small pool about 
three yards long, by two yards wide, and about two feet deep. In the 
course of the succeeding month it had attained its full development, 
when it filled two-thirds of the pool. During the succeeding year 
(1881) there was not the least trace of it, but in the following three 
successive seasons, viz., 1885-6-7, it has appeared in the same station 
