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The late Mr. E. D. Atkinson. — By the death of Mr. 

 E. D. Atkinson, who passed away at Hobart on 25th October, 

 1920, Tasmania has lost a notable geologist and one of its most 

 industrious collectors of fossils, while the Field Naturalists' 

 Club has lost an honorary member of long standing. He was 

 a Yorkshireman by birth, and was connected with the Tas- 

 manian Railways both at Waratah and Sulphur Creek. 

 Together with his son, R. N. Atkinson (who was accidentally 

 killed whilst cleaning a militar\' rifle about seven years ago), 

 Mr. Atkinson spent his leisure time in searching the rich fossil 

 beds of Table Cape. The results are to be found in the many 

 choice and new specimens described and included in the col- 

 lections of the National Museum, Melbourne, and in the 

 museums of other States. He and his son had keen eyes for 

 not only the larger fossils, as Cetaceans and Volutes, but also 

 for the minutest ; for as long ago as 1912 the writer commenced 

 to investigate the relationsliips of a microscopic fossil received 

 from them, of which the publication has unfortunately been 

 delayed till now, and which has been named Shcrbornina 

 Atkinsoni, gen. et sp. nov. In an appreciation of Mr. E. D. 

 Atkinson in the Lannceston Examiner we read : — " So, working, 

 plodding, and collecting, and fighting all the common affairs 

 of life, successfully filling an official position, and yet finding 

 time to learn more of the history of Tasmania in Miocene time 

 than perhaps any man in Australia, friend Atkinson completed 

 his allotted span of life, and is now left to us as a memory of 

 a good neighbour, a just and hard-working officer in various 

 offices, a staunch friend, and withal^ the holder of the proudest 

 title that man can covet — a gentleman. "^ — F. C. 



" A Manual of the Birds of Australia." — ^Messrs. H. F. 

 and G. Witherby will publish immediately tlie first volume 

 of the above work, edited by (iregory I\I. Mathews (author of 

 "The Birds of Australia") and Tom In-dale. It will be very 

 fully illustrated with coloured and monochrome plates. 



The Morialta Falls Reserve, S.A. — ^The last annual report 

 of the Director of National Pleasure Resorts f)f Soutli Australia 

 contains an account of the work done at the Morialta lalls Re- 

 serve, situated in the Mount Lofty Ranges, al)out seven miles 

 north-east of Adelaide. The reserve contains a very fine gorge 

 with cliffs rivalling those of the famous Werribee Gorge. Two 

 miles of pathways have been cut, with rustic bridges here and 

 there. Large numbers of native trees and shrubs have been 

 planted to reclothc the slopes denuded before the reserve was 

 acquired by the (jovernment, and garden lieds, gay with flowering 

 pkints, have been introduced in certain positions. Be'ng so near 

 Adelaide, it is largely visited on Sundays and holidays. 



