1903. Coi^E. — A Geological Renaissayice. 123 



Very few misprints or slips can be detected in this admirable 

 Memoir, which is in this point also much in advance of pre- 

 vious publications. The earlier edition is responsible for 

 ** Mount Malpas" (p. 64, &c.), in place of "Mount Mapas," a 

 name which originated in the Mapas family. In the lists of 

 fossils (pp. 17-20), the addition of the names of authors is one 

 of the many signs of the scientific spirit in which the work of 

 revision has been performed. Both the Director, Mr. J. J. H. 

 Teall, and Mr. G- W. Lamplugh. deserve our warmest thanks 

 for the simultaneouf issue of a map and Memoir that mark 

 new era in Irish geological work. 



Dublin, 



NEWS GLEANINGS. 



Joseph Pearson. 



Joseph Pearson, B Sc, who has been selected for the post of naturaUst 

 to the Ulster Fisheries and Biology Association, entered University 

 College, Liverpool, in 1899, with one of the City Council technical 

 science scholarships, and. from the beginning of his career as a student 

 he was thus dedicated to technical pursuits. As an undergraduate he 

 distinguished himself in all his classes ; and, when he took his 

 Bachelor's degree in 1902 at Victoria University, he got first-class 

 honors in zoology, and was awarded a special prize in oceanography. 

 He afterwards obtained a Victoria l^niversity scholarship in zoology, 

 and a City Council scholarship for research. His first original work 

 was on plankton ; next he devoted a good deal of time to Prof. Herd- 

 man's Ceylon collections, and, in particular, worked up the Holothurians, 

 describing numerous new species. He is now engaged on a memoir on 

 the vShore Crab, to be published by the Liverpool Marine Biological 

 Committee. Besides studying in Liverpool, he has worked at the 

 Marine Biological Station at Port Erin, and at the Sea-fish Hatchery at 

 Piel. He comes to Belfast with the strongest recommendations, and 

 we cordially welcome him into the ranks of those working at Irisl; 

 zoology. 



