2 Notes and Comtnents. 



MUSEUM CONFERENCE AT ROCHDALE. 



A Conference of Museum Curators was held at Rochdale 

 recently, representatives being present from Accrington, 

 Blackburn, Bolton, Bootle, Bury, Hull, Keighley, Liverpool, 

 Manchester, Sheffield, Stockport and Warrington. The Museum 

 and Art Gallery are of recent erection — the former being small. 

 It contains, however, representative collections of local geolo- 

 gical and archaeological objects. Papers and exhibitions of 

 interest to Curators were brought forward by Dr. W. E. Hoyle, 

 Messrs. W. S. Laverock, S. L. Mosley, R. Bateman and F. 

 Williamson. Lieutenant-Colonel Fishwick, the Chairman of 

 the Rochdale Museum Committee, entertained the visitors. 



LIVERPOOL BIOLOGISTS. 



The Liverpool Biological Society has again earned the grati- 

 tude of all naturalists by publishing so excellent a volume of 

 Proceedings and Transactions as that just issued for 1907-8.* 

 JBesides a review of the work of the Society during the year, 

 it contains the Presidential Address of Mr. W. T. Haydon, on 

 ' The Seed Production of Pinus sylvestris ' ; ' The Twenty-first 

 Annual Report of the Liverpool Biological Committee and their 

 Biological Station at Port Erin ' ; a marvellous record of 

 detailed and systematic work, by Prof. Herdman ; a ' Report 

 on the Investigations carried on during 1907, in connection 

 with the Lancashire Sea-fisheries' laboratory, at the University 

 of Liverpool, and the Sea-Fish Hatchery at Piel, near Barrow,' 

 by Prof. Herdman and Messrs. A. Scott and J. Johnstone 

 — a report of two hundred pages ; and Mr. W. J. Dakin 

 writes on ' Methods of Plankton Research.' 



' CANCER.' 



An unusually valuable feature in this volume is the Mono- 

 graph on Cancer — the Edible Crab, by Mr. Joseph Pearson, 

 which forms No. 16 of the Liverpool Marine Biological Com- 

 mittee's Memoirs — a series indispensable to the working 

 zoologist. In this monograph, which contains over two hundred 

 pages, and numerous beautifully prepared })lates, is presented 

 an account of the Edible Crab, which may be safely said to 

 contain all that is at jiresent known of the physiology and 

 anatomy of the species. We heartily congratulate the Liver- 

 l^ool Society and Mr. Pearson on its production. 



* Vol. XXIL, 1908. 554 + xviii. pp., and plates. 



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