Northern News, etc. 403 



of Nature's Noblemen. Take him all in all, we shall not 

 look upon his like again. 



After a few days' illness, he passed away, October 6th, in 

 his 76th year, and was interred in the Churchyard of St. 

 Bartholomew's, Armley. He was a bachelor. Representatives 

 of the Society attended the funeral, which took place on October 

 nth, exactly a fortnight after that of his old friend, Mr. W. 

 Barraclough, which he had attended. It is now made public 

 that the deceased gentleman, amongst numerous other chari- 

 table bequests, has left to his Society the sum of £100. 



E.G.B. 



The Biynti)ighain and Midland Inslitiile Scientific Society has issued 

 its annual antl valuable ' Records of Meteorological Observations, taken 

 at the Observatory, Edgbaston, 1915, by Mr. Alfred Cresswell,' at 2s. In 

 addition it has published Mr. Ernest Crocker's Presidential Address {24 

 pages) entitled ' Science as Enemy and Ally.' 



The Report of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham 

 and Newcastle-on- Tyne, shows that the work of this excellent Society 

 and its ISIuseum has still fvirther b3en interfered with, by the fact that 

 the Curator, Mr. E. L. Gill, is in France on ambulance work, and that the 

 caretaker has died. Under the care of the assistant Curator, Mr. H. 

 Fletcher, some progress has bsen made, which is detailed in the Report. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, held at 

 Lincoln on November gth, the Rev. F. L. Blathwayt mentioned that in 

 June last he went to see the work of a pair of starlings nesting in a barn 

 at Black. ]\Ioor Farm, Doddington. For about a fortnight the birds 

 persevered in pushing hay and straw through a hole in the roof, but there 

 bsing no support, the stuff all fell through to the ground below, and formed 

 a large pile, four feet six inches high and four feet wide at the base, and 

 weighing, he was told, 10 lb. The attempt was at last given up. Mr. 

 Guy W. Mason was elected president for the year, and the Rev. F. L. 

 Blathwayt vice-president. The secretary, treasurer and .sectional officers 

 were all re-elected. 



' Enquirer ' writes as follows : — ' I should be much obliged if any of 

 your readers could tell me what are " Terlalogims." From the facts before 

 me I infer that there are several classes of them, one of which is called 

 ■' Index Terlalogims," but I do not know the names of the others. They 

 would appear to present great variations, for 2,300 coloured figures can 

 be purchased for £2. They have. been studied by an author named Wood. 

 This is all the knowledge I have been able to acquire up to the present, 

 but any further information would be gratefully received.' 



We must confess that, at first, the enquiry puzzled us, but as we were 

 asked a little while ago to pay a visit to a suburb of London, in order to 

 see a toad's nest in a gooseberry bush, we naturally felt our correspondent 

 was of this harmless variety. It appears, however, that on the cover of 

 a certain well-known natural history journal, a copy of ' Wood's Index 

 Terlalogims ' was offered for sale. We found that the editor of the journal 

 had no control of the advertisements and knew nothing of the matter ; 

 but the publishers kindly allowed us to see the MS. for the advertisement, 

 and we must admit that, frona a compositor's point of view, the word was 

 clearly ' Terlalogim-s,' but, as the printer explained, 'naturalists are gener 

 ally suchbad writers ' (even in the letter by ' Enquirer ' who is a naturalist 

 of some standing, the word looks like ' Julalogirus ' !). The book offered 

 for sale, of course, should have been Wood's Index Testaceologicus. 



1916 Oct. 1. 



